April Blogging Challenge Day 5: Home

Home. Home is here. Here in Québec, Canada, in a suburb of Montréal, on a small, quiet street of seven houses. Home is here, the place where I grew my four beautiful children inside of me, the place where our family grew from being just a couple to being a family of six. Home is…

Objective: Zero Waste – Part 3

Objective: Zero Waste is a series in which I will be sharing the steps our family has been taking to reduce our environmental footprint.  This is part 3 of the series.  Here are the links for part 1 and part 2. The last time, I wrote about the 5 R's behind the concept of zero…

Bittersweet

I've known for a long time that I wanted children.  For me, it was even clear that given the great relationship I have with my own siblings, I wanted more than one child.  As luck would have it I found a partner who shared the same desire. We gave ourselves a couple of years to…

Objective: Zero Waste – Part 2

(As an aside, I apologize if this post is coming up twice in your reader or inbox.  For some reason, when it was posted, only the draft was posted instead of the whole blog post.  This one should be complete *fingers crossed*) Objective: Zero Waste is a series in which I will be sharing the…

Objective: Zero Waste – Part 1

Objective: Zero Waste is a series in which I will be sharing the steps our family has been taking to reduce our environmental footprint. The first time I heard about the concept of Zero Waste was in a news spot a couple of years ago.  I remember rolling my eyes as I listened to the…