Calmly Chaotic

"Mother nature doesn't want you to have children, and we need to make sure there isn't a reason why." 
I remember those words, delivered matter-factly in the warm room of the Ottawa Fertility Clinic almost 9 years ago. It was not a shock. Having spent countless hours lost to the …

When we bought this house 4 years ago, this room was a nursery, but it wouldn't be a nursery for us. No, we would use it as an office, a yoga room, an eventual bedroom when our twins decided they'd had enough of each other. Just thinking back to the first time we walked through this space, …

Beige is an awful colour, this I know. Yet, here I was actually considering it for our tent trailer remodel. I mean it is just a tent (I tried to tell myself), and I've been know to tire of colour, so a neutral would be the safe choice for reupholstering the cushions. But if it is just a tent, …