I realized this post is titled ‘Weekly Reads’ but, honestly, I hardly have any time to read. We had a relaxing weekend a few weeks back when I devoured The Girl on the Train (my hold at the library finally came through! I was probably #876 in line). But in my day to day life […]
Author: Christina
Apartment Living: Bathing a baby
I’d love to share some things that I’ve learned about small space living with a baby. I hope to do some more posts about this in the future but I’ll start with bathtime. We’ve lived in two different apartments since my daughter was born. The first with a full-sized bathtub and, currently, one with just […]
Tips For Wearing Jewelry When You Have A Nickel Allergy
Laura and I both have sensitivity to nickel. Laura has a more serious allergy (she can’t have any nickel touching her skin whether it be a necklace clasp or the back of a watch) while I’m only sensitive to nickel in earrings. My sensitivity to nickel only showed up in the last 8 years or […]
Weekly Reads: motherhood
Welcome to Weekly Reads, where we share things we’ve found around the web. When my daughter was three weeks old I met up with a friend who was expecting her baby in a few weeks time and told her “Ignore everyone’s advice, absolutely no one remembers what having a newborn is like.” I still stand […]
4 Ways to Joyfully Welcome Fall
I wanted to start this post off by saying how fall is my favourite season. I think it is, but what I really enjoy is the changing of the seasons. The first snow fall. The first signs of spring and thawing ground. The first sticky warm night of summer. And, now, the crisp air and […]
Sticky Sesame Granola
This sesame granola will appeal to anyone who likes sesame snaps. Sticky, sweet, with the nutty flavor of toasted sesame seeds. Also, instead of crumbling this into granola you can slice it and eat it as granola bars. I love love love granola. Whenever we buy a box it disappears within a day or two. […]
Weekly Reads: powerful women
Welcome to Weekly Reads, where we share bits and pieces of things we’ve found around the web. Some light reading for your weekend: Martha Stewart I love reading about how successful and very wealthy people spend their days. It’s always eccentric and so far removed from my reality. This article on Martha Stewart is fun. […]
Two ways to preserve blueberries (without canning)
Speaking of bumper crop, we’ve had the wonderful problem this year of having too many blueberries. In the few short months since we moved to Europe we’ve done more foraging in the forest than I’ve done in my entire life. We’ve picked teeny tiny wild strawberries (if only all strawberries tasted like those, oh man) […]
6 Things I’ve Learned from Flying with a Baby
My daughter is 8 months old and has been on 4 round-trip flights. It’s a lot of flying for a baby, but we have family in two countries, on different continents, and on opposite ends of one of those countries. We’re using my maternity leave as an opportunity to see as much as our family […]
Slow Roasted Tomato Sauce
This is my recipe for slow roasted tomato sauce…aka the best use of those extra garden tomatoes. Last year was a surprising bumper crop of tomatoes from our garden. Four “Early Girl” tomato plants yielded buckets of tomatoes every week. Suddenly we were faced with a question that was never a problem before: what to […]