sweet, sweet weekend

I’ve been dreaming about making these mini banana splits since I first laid eyes on them a couple weeks ago.  The girls and I made them together yesterday (more them as you can see). Ours didn’t look as amazing as the ones in the recipe, but man, they tasted sooooooo good! Our dinner table hasn’t [...]

calm cookies

This past week has been filled with quite a bit of chaos. New puppy craziness, less time to work or sleep, children with fevers,  a broken dishwasher. When life gets like this and I feel the chaos starting in on me I always find calm in the kitchen. My sweet friend Lesley often leaves cookies [...]

quiet monday morning

Soup and slippers, two essentials for this time of year. This morning they matched. Soup: beet soup, my recipe. (which is to simply find all the beets in the bootom of your fridge and put them in a pot.  Add red cabbage and red onion because they’re purple too.) Slippers: Camper slippers, best . birthday. [...]

some of my favourite things..

I think Thanksgiving has to be one of my favourite holidays, mostly because it is centered around food… in particular pumpkin pie. Sosi shares my deep love of pumpkin pie. I always make her a mini pie, because I know she has a hard time waiting until dinner to have some. I finished Ila’s dress. [...]

just the 2 of us

Sosi and Paul have been crazy about biking the Confederation Trail (or the Trail, as we call it) this summer. He usually takes her after supper to give me some time to myself. She is unstoppable, and usually returns bragging of fox sightings, of how beautiful golden time (golden hour) is and of biking all the [...]