Growing up there was always one thing I looked forward to – BIRTHDAY PARTIES! Candles on the cake, games galore, party favours, or as we liked to call them “loot bags”. But as we age, the classic birthday party rituals slowly start shifting focus to booze. Personally I’d rather go back for seconds possibly even…

Get ready because today’s story-time features yet another “I can’t believe Alexis use to eat THAT!” blog entry. CANNED VEGETABLES! Yep! I ate them! Well, I ate them when my mother succeeded with her mind games, because unless it looked like a chicken finger or a pizza bun….I would have needed a Wendy’s frosty promised…

Wake up in the morning and *claps hands* WE’RE GONE!!! Famous words (along with the action) that I have been saying my whole life the night before I hit the road for a vacation. I think it was a way for my mom to get us all jazzed before a holiday. It’s funny because when…

How is it August already?! August…say it with me – AUGUST!!! I feel like I should be on the look out for the big sale on road salt to appear at Costco, because it won’t be long now until we’re shovelling our driveways again. But seeing as it’s only August I wanted to say this;…

I read an article recently that said writing a blog is like running a marathon. Now don’t shoot this messenger, this was a comparison made by someone else. But if I take a step back I can sort of see the comparison… Sweat, tears, stress, hair pulling, nail biting, these are just some of what…

Why is it that when something smells really bad we want to share that experience with everyone around us? For instance you would say: “What’s that horrible smell?!?” Then immediately everyone around you takes in the biggest breath of life, just to be sure to get a really good whiff??? Same thing goes for when…

It’s not easy being green but it sure is delicious… I wish I could tell you that I’ve always had a love for all things healthy.  I feel like it might have given me a sort of sophisticated glow, like I was ahead of the eat more kale trend. Sadly I had no clue that this…

Lately I’ve started to notice that my dog is losing his svelte doggie physique and is almost starting to morph into a sausage type shape. Yes, like an actual hot dog! Ha! Happens to the best of us. We get lazy or we blame the winter. Stupid Winter!!! But I think I figured out what…

I think that as we get older we start to realize, or at least I did very early on, that it’s not so much about the quantity of friends that you have in your life, as it is the quality.  Like when Facebook first launched I remember thinking; I needed to get as many “friends”…

When I was little I never really understood why there was a day that we had to celebrate mom, I mean c’mon, she already gets a birthday, but now we have to take another day and spoil her again?!? But then it hit me, as I got older I started to realize that out of the…

Light it up!!! I said that like Mick Jagger if you were wondering. I’m talking about the barbecue….or the grill…or the bee bee queue! And what’s the first thing that comes to mind as a side dish?! I’m going to play mind reader and guess that you are thinking of Potato Salad!!! Because personally I…

I know I’m not alone when I say that there isn’t much I wouldn’t do for my health. I’ve had tubes fed down my throat, tubes fed up my… seen pretty much every specialist out there, x-rays, scans…..you name it I’ve done it!  AND lucky me in my early 30’s I’m also scheduled to have…