As I write, I am flying home to BC from having just left my eldest daughter to start her residency in Ontario where she will officially start her life. She keeps telling her Dad and I that she has been on her own for years already. She has while she was at school abroad, but this is different and one day she will understand what we mean….Home will always be where we are, but she will always ...

Supporting local as I mentioned last week is something we are trying to really promote. Saturday night date night was ordering from Zythos greek restaurant in Walnut Grove. As self proclaimed foodies…I think we are probably greek food snobs too…because we are very picky with what we consider good greek food. We usually first judge good Greek food by their tzaziki, if its not fresh and tasty ...

Happy International Nurses Day to my beautiful niece who just graduated from nursing school, to all of our clients that are nurses working on the front line during these very difficult times and to all the amazing nurses out there. 

My niece has a spirit like no other and will be that nurse that makes you smile when she walks into a room. We are so very proud of her and all the nurses out ther ...

Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms, Grandmas and mother figures in our lives...even the pet moms. From a team of women at the moment, we want to wish everyone a day full of Happy memories with our loved ones...however that may be. 

As I went for a walk today with my husband I came across this beautiful bunch of tulips that a very sweet family put out in honour of their mother that recently pas ...

We are trying to support the restaurant industry on the weekends…so each week we pick a different place to order from on Saturday nights. Used to be our date night, well now it is an in night but with no cooking. We have had some not so great meals though and are really looking forward to some semblance of normalcy so that we can go back to enjoying a meal freshly made in a restaurant. But fo ...

This week my daughter and I jumped on the Sourdough starter band wagon...we figured sourdough is probably our favourite type of bread next to a good italian loaf of any kind, so why not. Since its been trending it has definitely been on our minds. We even had a family member that is a chef and at the beginning of all of the closures delivered to us a delicious loaf of homemade sourdough that ...

Do you have pieces of wood left over from a renovation project that you just don’t know how to get rid of? Maybe you have numerous bags filled with yard clippings and tree branches that were removed during your backyard cleanup. It’s a good chance that you have these kinds of things just lying around, taking up valuable space, but you simply don’t know what to do with it. You could have a b ...

We shared our winners on Instagram but forgot to share on our website. 

Every year we get so many amazing entries for our Colouring Contests. We wish we could choose them all to win, but we can only choose 2. Our first winner is 12 year old Rachel. She has entered our colouring contest many times over the years, she was definitely due for a win. We are happy she tried one more time. We loved R ...

In these difficult times we are seeing a lot of our favourite businesses big and small having to close their doors for good. Once life gets back to normal, many of our favourite businesses may not be able to reopen. 

Steve Nash Fitness World (a BC business) is rumoured to be filing for bankruptcy. Lush Cosmetics after laying off employees like so mnay others due to the pandemic, recently annou ...

Cheap Items to Upgrade Your Bathroom

The bathroom is undoubtedly an essential room in the house. It’s that part of the house where you destress with a cold shower. It’s also the room where you get all your beauty regimen, and makeup is done. The entire place is synonymous with beauty, and you need to take care of it too.

Apart from serving you well, you’ll find that many people who want ...