Like nomads, but with more stuff

A fun thing to do when the weather gets down below -30C is to make your own snow. Just get some boiling water, pour it into a cup and throw...

A phenomenon we had never even heard of before our move is the magic that is Canadian Tire. They do in fact sell tires (I wasn't entire...

I guess four months in a house (one of which was away) isn't TOO long a delay for discovering the charming park around the corner. I ca...

This was definitely a birthday for the books. The mantra of the day for the kids was "Kind, loving, agreeable" - meaning if their...

In the nearly 20 years Terry and I have been together prior to Calgary I can think of five ER visits: each of Alex's broken arms, when ...

Our first attempt at hiking the Rockies in the snow didn't go all that well - the temperature was significantly colder than predict...

We got a decent snowfall overnight and the kids played outside most of the day. Using the snow they shoveled from the walkway as well as al...

Last weekend edition: Was the gorilla always wearing that purple tutu? If the onion was going to bite anyone, it would have been me.

One thing we've been wanting but missing most places we have lived in the last 10-15 years is a "go to" - a restaurant that i...

I should start with the day Terry went to register the children in school (one week before school started, and the day after we had a signe...