“Better late than never” goes the old saying, which seems to have been our motto for camping this year. After our trip to Port Hardy at the end of the August, my mom suggested a trip to Wells Grey Provincial Park. We spent most of last week hiking and canoeing there with her. As the […]
Explore Cape Scott Provincial Park
Cape Scott Provincial Park curves around the north end of Vancouver Island, protecting the coast and coastal rain forest from local mining and logging activity. On a map, it looks deceptively close to Victoria—just a hop, skip and a jump away. A quick search will tell you that Cape Scott Provincial Park is a 7-hour […]
Hiking Buntzen Lake Recreation Area
Ever since moving to Vancouver, we’ve heard friends raving about the Buntzen Lake Recreation Area. Located about an hour from downtown Vancouver, this beautiful man-made lake and second-growth forest is the perfect way to escape the city on a summer afternoon. Buntzen Lake offers a picnic area, beach, hiking trails, and boat launch—in short, there’s […]
15 Ways We Spend Time as a Family
Spending time together as a family is very important to us. Everyone in the family is happier when we’re all having fun together. And I strongly believe that good relationships now set the stage for good relationships when our kids are teenagers and adults. We try to eat supper together every night and to keep […]
Summer Camping Tips & Ideas
As the weather warms up and summer vacation approaches, many of us start to think about getting away to do some camping. Whether your style of camping includes tents and backpacks or RVs and lawn chairs, here’s a collections of camping tips, ideas and recipes for making this summer camping trip the best one yet. […]
The Juno Baby Carrier by Mountain Buggy
I’ve been babywearing since my oldest was an infant. In fact, when Sunshine was six months old, we did a day hike in Waterton National Park with her on my back. That trip taught me the importance of a sturdy, ergonomically designed baby carrier. That’s why I’m so excited about the Juno baby carrier made […]
Admiralty Point Trail in Belcarra Regional Park
The greater Vancouver area offers a wealth of parks and trails. Last fall, we discovered Belcarra Regional Park, located just east of Port Moody. The girls and I hiked the Admiralty Point Trail there with my mom and her dog Frodo when they came to visit us. This trail offers an easy, scenic walk along […]
5 Tips for Choosing the Right Stroller
When we bought our first stroller, we were expecting our first daughter and really had no idea what we needed in a stroller. We took my husband’s parents along for advice, but I remember picking the stroller more by its colour and price than any other considerations. Three kids and a lot of strolling later, […]
Graco FastAction Fold Jogger Travel System
About a month after Pearl’s birth, a large box arrived on our door step. It was our new Graco FastAction Fold Jogger Travel System. The girls were nearly as excited about it was I was. For a while we just admired the box. Then I got impatient with waiting for my husband to come home […]
Hiking the Stave Dam Interpretation Trail
We don’t leave the Vancouver city area very often. When we do get outside city limits, we try to make sure that we have more than one thing to do in the area. So when we went out to the Stave Falls Powerhouse in September, we also hiked the nearby Stave Dam Interpretation Trail. The […]
