Attila the Mum

One of my favourite authors is Terry Pratchett.  He has written several books that I love for their bent view of the world and the multiple laugh out loud moments.  He wrote a series of books for children called the Wee Free Men, part of but not a part of his Disk World books.  …

I am a lucky person.  I think I have the best mother-in-law in the world.  My mother-in-law does little things that make my life easier.  While we were away she cleaned and defrosted my freezer.  She volunteered to, if you can imagine that.  When we got home I had a freezer that actually had room…

I always find it interesting what captures my children.  We just got home from our East Coast Adventure and have rapidly settled back into our regular routines (did we really ever go away?). When I am home I make cookies about twice a week.  I make a variety of cookies and everyone has their favourite….

Okay, I will completely admit that I probably have my holiday glasses on (they are like rose-coloured glasses, where everything looks better because you are on holiday), but the farmer’s markets blow the markets at home out of the water.  The quality of product, the variety, the busy-ness.  I think the biggest difference for me…

I love road trips.  My husband and I went on a two week road trip after only knowing each other a couple of weeks.  That was a make or break moment.  Most of our family holidays have been road trips.  Our destination of choice is the East coast.  I love the East coast, especially Nova…

I am sitting in a big cushy chair with my feet up watching the rain come sizzling down on a lake, not ten feet away, surrounded by trees.  There isn’t another house in sight.  My children are playing together or reading.  My dog is asleep under a bench.  I am having as close to a…

This year the big summer project was renovating a new-to-us 1972 Airstream trailer.  My husband spent many hours getting the trailer in shape for us to use.  It is now prepared and ready for our inaugural adventure.  We are heading east and spending a nice chunk of time experiencing life on the road and in…

I will un-ashamedly admit I am not a house cleaner.  There is very little about housework I find remotely satisfying or enjoyable.  My preferred way to keep my house clean is to contain the mess.  If the mess is in one place then only one place needs to be cleaned. The one household chore I…

I always liked Charlie Brown’s expression of frustration.  ‘Argh!’ communicates so much.  I am having an ARRRGGGGHHHH!!!! moment.  Possibly a moment that requires even more than what can be expressed by a single Argh. So here I am, on my birthday no less, attempting to get my son’s passport application in.  I filled out the…

The other day, for a point of comparison, my kids and I read two versions of Rapunzel (neither being the Disney version).  I used to believe that there was a moral to the fairy tales.  I thought that was the point to them.  There were minor differences in the two versions.  In both; the couple…