It seems to me that somehow, in a world where we can instantly connect with those around us, we are more disconnected than ever. I can easily spend a day interacting only with my husband, children and faceless friends on social media. I have in my home not one but three books written specifically for […]
{five favourites} Vol. 22: Ottawa
Welcome to the Five Favourites linkup! If you’re a #5Faves regular, thanks for following the linkup over here! For my readers, I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be hosting this linkup every Wednesday where you can share five favourite things—any favourite things! Ashley from the Big White Farmhouse started this linkup but recently decided that […]
Wordless Wednesday: Toy Window Shopping
Sunshine and Lily window shopping with their friend LD (left)
The Lost Art of Letter Writing
One of my Christmas memories is helping my dad with our annual family Christmas letter. He typed the two-page letter on the computer, then printed it on nice Christmas paper. The first letters came out on a Dot-Matrix printer, so we had to tear all the holey edges off before folding the pages into the […]
Three Tips for Building Friendships
When I blogged about Women of Faith, I mentioned how I had prayed that God would show me who needed to be at that conference that weekend. I was just going for the trip, but surely He knew a woman who could be encouraged and inspired by the weekend. God has a sense of humour; […]
How to Be a Friend
When I first saw Lisa Welchel’s book Friendship for Grownups, I wasn’t very interested. I kinda wondered how she could write a whole book on friendship. I mean, it’s not that hard—is it? I should have realized, from all our moves and from my desire to return to Alberta because “our family and friends are […]
Creating Community in Our Neighbourhood (Part 2)
When we talked about moving into university family housing, it was mostly for logistics. Family housing offered cheaper rent close to campus, so we’d save on transportation costs. In terms of babysitting, it also meant we’d only need a sitter for the time we were in class—not class time plus an hour bus ride to […]
My Best Friend’s Wedding
Yesterday was my best friend’s wedding. It’s been two years coming—she was shopping for shoes for her first date while I was shopping for shoes for my wedding—but it still seems a little unreal. I think back years ago, to the hours we spent playing “house” with our imaginary husbands and favourite dolls for babies, […]
