It’s Zara’s 13th birthday today! She is the light of my life, my built in best friend, and the soul of our family. A quiet girl, but she’s also the one that can bring us to our feet for impromptu dance parties, make us actually ROFL with her dad jokes, and get us all into […]

Normally I try not to overdo the strong chemicals and toxic cleaners, but with all of the COVID business, that went out the window. We were disinfecting everything, all day long. Our house is filled with Lysol, bleach, hand sanitizer – things we normally avoid. As necessary as those steps were (and in some ways […]

Remember when we used to look forward to Friday night? Before all our days, evenings, and weekends started bleeding into each other, and every day felt like groundhog day. (If you haven’t noticed, I’m in a mood today). I’ve really been missing that excitement that comes with the end of the week, and that chill […]

Is it ever really the ‘right time’ to have a child? What would the circumstances have to be like for someone to feel it’s the right time to carry a human being around in your womb for 9 months, push your body to the limits of exhaustion and pain to deliver said human, and then […]

Growing up in Canada, my understanding of Lohri was very limited. The two things I knew were; people host Lohri parties when they have a boy, and you always cook saag and eat gur & rewri on Lohri. By the time I made it into my teens, people had started breaking the norm and having […]

I started choosing a word of the year back in 2011. We were going through a particularly rough patch and I was drained in every way possible. Emotionally, spiritually, and perhaps the most upsetting – financially. At 31 years old, my career was at a standstill, my family was uprooted, and we had to start […]

It’s no secret that I love museums (and libraries, antique shops, or old filing cabinets full of forgotten paperwork). Any afternoon that connects me to history, art, or language is perfection, but a night at the museum with my kids, that’s the ultimate experience! We recently got to spend a few evening hours wandering the […]

One of the best things about Lohri is that you don’t have to do anything extravagant to celebrate it. There are so many ways to celebrate Lohri and make it special. We’ve rounded up our favourite ways to make Lohri a festive time at home and spoiler alert– they’re super simple!  Lohri Snacks Reinvent popcorn […]