So D is on parental leave and we’re both at home with Q and T. What a gift parental leave is, especially when both parents can be at home together. The one-to-one parent to child ratio makes an incredible difference and sometimes we even get to spell each other off and actually have time to…
babywearing / Hike Review / Lynn Canyon / Nature / Tyke Hike
As you probably know, we’ve always enjoyed the hikes in and around Lynn Canyon Park. This summer, though, E and M and I spent even more time there. It turns out it’s a great location for tyke hikes. Teeming with trails and right by the cafe, what 2 year old wouldn’t love it? One of…
babywearing / Hiking / Parenting / Tyke Hike
E: Hello again. Remember us? It’s been a long time, and a lot has happened since you last heard from us! Not the least of which being that there are more of us now. Q and I have leveled up to “Big Sister” status now, both of us having gained a little roly-poly jelly-fish sister…
If there’s one thing that every mother seems to feel, especially in the early stages of parenting, it’s guilt. And failure. I’ve been noticing this among my own community of mom friends, even among those who didn’t use to experience those feelings in their pre-parent lives. I get so angry when I think about the…
This is my throwback post to my last two pre-pregnancy solo hikes. Well, one was pre-pregnancy and one was right after I found out I was pregnant, but it was pre-nausea and pre-black-hole-of-1st-trimester-death. I’ve been feeling pretty nostalgic for solo hiking. As much as I love hiking with Q, we really only do full on…
It’s that time of year again, time to climb ladders and slide slides and swing swings…and time for mummies to sip (decaf!) coffee again on the playground. We fell off of posting these playground posts through the winter, for obvious reasons. There’s only so much muddy buddies and rain boots can do to make a freezing,…
E and D and I just got back from a fairly impromptu trip to Tofino full of outdoor exploring and cozying up around fires. Thank goodness for good friends who randomly invite you to awesome vacations! I hadn’t been to Tofino since before E was born, terrified as I was of that drive with a…
I took Q and Ebba to Lighthouse Park. By myself. I’ll let that sink in. Then, a couple of days later, I took them to Lynn Canyon. By myself. Now I’ll let THAT sink in. And now that I’m done being dramatic, it was totally awesome. Up until a couple of weeks ago it…
Adrienne: Sometimes the best hikes are the ones done with little to no preparation on a total spur of the moment whim. The other day A said to me, ‘why don’t we blow off our regular lives and take the girls to Whistler sometime?’, and I was all, ‘sounds awesome, when?’ and she was like,…
E: We’re back! Sorry it’s taken so long for us to get access to the computer. All this stuff about “no screen time” can make it really tough for a blogging baby! But anyway, they’ve done it. Our mums have done a year of blogging…give or take some lazy months when my mum didn’t even…
Hike Hitchers 