Like nomads, but with more stuff

Not only did we start camping when we arrived here three years ago, but we have been covetously looking at campers. With nighttime temperatu...

The kids and I spent three weeks in the US this year. Starting in MA, we spent time with mom (board games, card games, Cider Hills, and for ...

Back during our first full summer when we were camping neophytes and made lots of mistakes, we spent a couple of nights in the Peter Loughee...

I am completely enamored of our most recent additions to the family. They definitely keep me on my toes, especially Kiki, who comes to me ch...

I am trying the 1000 hours outside challenge this year. Given the way the first part of the year has gone, I think I will be happy to reach ...

 Since the last post, way back in January ...  We've skied. Literally every weekend since January 8 at least one member of the family sk...

 ... a few days late.  This year was a pretty good one. It started with chocolate chip waffles and Alex' card. The card included a secre...

 #21.  In a very generalistic, vague picture of reality, I'll explain that most of my days are spent trying to teach, coach and convince...

 #10:  The kids. I am not at all the same person I was before they were born – mostly for the better. They challenge me and push my out of...

 So I guess this is how it's going to be this year.  Sigh. Gratitude #5:  My health. Really. It’s a trope in my house that I don’t get s...

 Things felt relatively normal this year - fewer than half the kids wearing masks and a sense that kids weren't being kept at home due t...

Part of the mad scramble for campsites means taking what you can get in terms of dates, or in terms of campgrounds.  My second priority was ...

  When we were watching and refreshing the Canada Parks web site like concert tickets were about to go on sale, our strategy was clear: we w...

  Lunch included a surprisingly delicious bean and quinoa salad, which was good as the sandwich was salami and I hadn't alerted the cam...

Alex was supposed to go to overnight camp last summer.  She was supposed to go to overnight camp this summer.  COVID made a hash of all that...

Alex likes having a particular place in the fridge to put her things for the next day's lunch, so she can just grab the stuff, pack it u...

 Super heat wave in Alberta, so what outdoor adventure makes the most sense? Taking the canoe out, of course!  We had been by Vermillion Lak...

We enjoyed the fall trip to Dinosaur so much we decided we wanted to spend a night or two by the hoodoos. Through determination and persever...

 One of the birthday coupons the kids got last year was dessert for dinner.  Zoltan used his on something relatively mundane. Alex, on the o...

 This is what it is like to raise children.  The Scene: just after lunch, at Zoltan's room Me:  Zoltan, go downstairs and put away the m...