New Found Land

Sorry it's been a while since I wrote a blog post, I have a few started and not completed and then you know life happens... We also have had an amazing Fall which means we are never home when we aren't obligated to be. I have just come back from another work trip, and while...

Water Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink

I am sure I am feeling the same way as most Canadians or people who live in the Northern Hemisphere, in a place where the inevitable white stuff is soon to grace us with its presence... where did the Summer go? I feel like it was just warm enough to go into the ocean -...

Leaving on a Jet Plane

Since Cillian has been born we have spent almost every moment together, until the dreaded-not-so-bad-going-back-to-work thing that happened. My partner and I, partially due to circumstance and partially due to choice haven't taken a lot of moments for us, I mean beyond the obvious one - the hour and half after you finally get Mr....

Will You Be My Friend?

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I wasn't exactly Casanova when it came to dating, well apparently that awkward, not picking up on cues and overall ignorance to the process, is also my style when it comes to making friends - something I didn't realize I was in want of. In my Calgary life...

Home Sweet Rental…

You know when you plan out your life perfectly, or at least the next steps you are going to take, and because you are a bit of a control freak who doesn't trust people 100%, you also go a bit above and beyond on the due diligence that everything is ready to go. Then the...

Oregon Trail

Sorry I haven't written in a while, the last few weeks I have been on my own personal version of Oregon Trail - you know the computer game where nine of your 10 children die of dysentery and the last few of you remaining drown after you finally reach the damn river you have to...

4770.1 KMs

You know when you break up with someone for the first little while all you think about is how amazing they were, all these wonderful qualities pop into your head - half of them I am sure are something you made up to romanticize the relationship and other half while accurate, when you were in...

Framily

Family, people related to each other usually by blood but not necessary. They are people that have helped shape you into the awkward, opinionated, light hearted (a paradox) "adult". They love you no matter how often you bicker over directions, attitude, or ocean vs. mountains. For the majority of your life they have been the...

My New Normal

Before Cillian I worked in roles that were highly demanding - not life or death situations but definitely involved overtime, juggling multiple projects and organizational goals. Like most people in the workforce it seemed that the companies were always understaffed, which meant you were doing the job of three people. I tend to work well...

182.5 Days

While I was pregnant I would often get comments from people letting me know that I will morph into a sleep zombie, my hygiene will resemble one of a teenage boy, my relationship with my partner will be flipped upside down and I can wave social activities bye-bye. So I mentally prepared myself for this...