Starting to feel settled-in enough to sit down and write some updates (even though the kitchen is still messy from early morning projects - blender crusted in dried smoothie, crumbs everywhere, fresh-ish muffins still in the pan). At least the pantry is finally organized?
Read MoreI know it’s not January anymore but I’ve been working on this post for several weeks! And so the photos are a mix of a few taken several weeks ago and some in the last few days.)
We knew January was going to be rough, in that way you push off a lot of things until the time “after the holidays”. And we were very right!
Read MoreMaya Angelou said it best, ‘The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.’
And boy, do I just want to go home!
Read MoreBeing an even-numbered year, it was Christmas in Québec! (Alternating between NM and QC these last years has been working pretty well so far).
I had really been looking forward to Benji’s first holiday - so many dreams of Instagrammable photos of baby in front of the tree and all that. (I’M A MILLENNIAL AND I ACCEPT IT.) So it was disappointing to not be in our home and have a tree to decorate. Technically we could have had one in our temporary place, but we just don’t feel at home here. So…2020 it will have to be!
Read MoreI’d been planning to do some traveling during my maternity leave, and knew it would probably be just Baby and me since Mat would be in school. At one point, in a flash of madness (blame the pregnancy hormones?), I thought it’d be fun to do the Camino de Santiago in Spain - 100+ kilometers of walking - baby-in-tow, with my dad… He laughed incredulously and appropriately at that idea. A more feasible goal was to take Benji to New Mexico for Thanksgiving. (I still want to do the Camino though! I’m looking at you, Pops.)
Read MoreMat had a week-long break from school so we decided to make the most of it, and as it turned out, we tried to make a little TOO much of it. I don’t know what I was thinking when I was planning it, but even though I knew that traveling with a baby brings a specific set of restrictions… I somehow thought any problems would totally pause if you yell, “Vacation!”
Read MoreI almost titled this, “Benji’s Birth Story,” but that just feels incorrect. Because to me, this story is not about him at all. Benji being born - and the amazing joy he has brought to our lives - has nothing to do with the 16 hours leading up to his birth. I really can’t explain that enough, though I know it sounds a bit weird.
Read MoreWelp, there went summer. Between having a baby and all the family and friend visits - not to mention the no-sleeping - this was probably the lightening-flashiest of summers I've lived so far. And the blog is definitely long overdue for a recap!
Read MoreThe first two weeks of life with Mr. Benji have been the classic challenge everyone promised: a sleepless fog of diaper explosions, sore nipples and high-decibel communication (happy to report that baby's lungs are in full working condition).
Read MoreNow that I'm a couple weeks into maternity leave and at about 70% satisfaction with the way the Trois-Rivières apartment is coming together, I can try to be more serious about keeping up with this blog!
Read MoreMat is at his selection interview for chiropractor school, while I chill at this very charming spot on the water. (I'm also very curious why that ship is just sitting there.)
Read MoreSo! What's been going on since I my travels ended in 2015...
Read MoreMy half-hour on-foot commute the other morning was slightly challenging, but super lovely.
It's been ages since I've felt like I had anything to write about. (It felt so try-too-hard-y to try making an interesting post about what we ate for dinner, or that how many times a week we have to clean the entryway of its sidewalk salt-stains.) But I keep thinking that I want to anyway. I mean, who cares? (Read: who reads this anyway? I see you, Mom. And I love you.)
The part that always brings me back around to wanting to blog is really the DESIGN part. I get so impressed/obsessed with the stuff I see around. It makes me go, "That's really cool. I want to do that." So why don't I? Ok, ok, I will. :)
So without further preamble (I always feel like coming back from a long hiatus deserves a 3,000-word update on everything that has happened since the last post), I'm just going to dive right in. And by that I mean, re-posting my old favorites (mostly the Travel stuff from my big 2014 Eurotrip) with some added commentary, and sprinkling in the new stuff as it comes.
Next up: Some updates.
:D
This blog is for sharing stories, photos and slices of our life in the Great White North with you guys in the hopes that it will make us feel a little less far apart.
(And help make annual visits a little less exposition-heavy.)
Love you all!
-Shannon
(and Mat says hi, too)
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