Category: The Mom Scene

10 places to work ‘from home’ and also entertain your kids

10 places to work "from home" with kids {Heather's Handmade Life}

When I’m on a work call and the person apologetically says I might hear their child in the background — usually because they’re home with a sick kid — I want to weep with joy.  “I get it! I totally get it! In fact,… Continue Reading “10 places to work ‘from home’ and also entertain your kids”

Summer BINGO with 100 activities for kids { Free download }

The trouble with summer vacation is that you can save a ton of great ideas in Pinterest, with the best intentions, and suddenly it’s Labour Day weekend and you’re feeling guilty about everything you didn’t get around to doing. Summer gets BUSY! There are… Continue Reading “Summer BINGO with 100 activities for kids { Free download }”

Easy-to-sew swim shirt + modest bathing suit

This project has been sponsored by Atlantic Fabrics’ six locations across Nova Scotia, including the newest store on Parkland Drive. All opinions and freezing-cold backyard photo shoots are my own. Somewhere between my own childhood and becoming a parent myself, everybody started putting their… Continue Reading “Easy-to-sew swim shirt + modest bathing suit”

Seven things I’ve learned in seven years of parenting

Seven lessons learned in seven years of parenting {Heather's Handmade Life}

In honor of our eldest child’s seventh birthday this week, I thought I’d share seven things I’ve learned about parenting during my seven years as a mom. (If this list could be longer, I’d be sure to include things like “Never let your child… Continue Reading “Seven things I’ve learned in seven years of parenting”

Learning to ride a bike

  I’d been feeling sort of uncomfortable, all winter long, over the fact that our son hadn’t even attempted to learn how to ride a two-wheeler. Not guilty, exactly, but definitely feeling that it was a bit of a parenting fail. Here he was,… Continue Reading “Learning to ride a bike”