A hello from Abu Dhabi

These are the cookies I made for Deepika, stars because she was the bright light in our shared office, and she never failed to make me laugh. They have raised the question of whether I have time to make the Valentine cookies I always make… You know how you always say, when a friend moves [...]

Hallowe’en: a few new tricks!

Hallowe’en was fabulous! We did several things differently this year, and all of them worked out, surprise, surprise. 1) I waited until THE NIGHT BEFORE to buy the chocolate candy. Gummy things and white-and-orange-and-black lollies I picked up weeks ago, but since we usually always eat the mini chocolate bars way before Hallowe’en night and [...]

Friday catch-up

Who made these fabulous thank-you notes? These are the thank-you notes I used in yesterday’s post, Things I Love. They are handmade by Nat, a Canadian mum living in Indonesia. She sells her cards and paper crafts on the Etsy website, a community where artists and artisans and crafters and thousands of creative types sell [...]

Friday was a BIG day: focus on each kid!

Cookies for Graydon’s school closing ceremonies—flowers, stars and ice cream cones—and initial cookies for my friend’s five-year-old Antonia’s birthday party on Saturday) The Friday sked was jam-packed with special parental moments, so jam-packed that this post reaches you three days late! But it’s here… Friday morning was the closing ceremony for the school year at [...]

Mom blog: Because I Said So! March Break day 3 easy treats for kids

Kids at home, toboganned out, shovelled out, only enough brawn to lift their hands to their mouths—time to cook! I don’t think Christine and The Foodie-file has any worries here, although I will point out that these treats HAVE NOT BEEN TRIPLE-TESTED THE CANADIAN LIVING KITCHENS, or in any kitchen but my own. The recipe [...]

Mom blog: Christmas cookie exchange

Finally I did something on the weekend other than cook and clean and run kids all over the city (all of which I still did, of course). I went to my first-ever cookie exchange. Yes, I had read about them in Canadian Living magazine, and I’m sure there must have been one in the hundreds [...]