Simplifying Life Step 1: Buy a tiny house
Step 1 to simplifying our lives: downsize into a tiny house. Ok, so it wouldn’t technically qualify as tiny, but Jason and I are contemplating buying pretty durn small 865 sq ft house. Our offer just...
View ArticleSimplifying Life Step 1b: Rent a Tiny House
A couple of weeks ago I wrote that Jason and I were looking at buying a tiny house. Well that didn’t turn out as we expected! Our financial advisor knew in advance, though. “You will never get a...
View ArticleDrive-in Movie Birthday
Sugar and Spice turned nine a couple of weeks ago, and we had the most fun and relaxing birthday party yet! With box cars and a drive-in movie, I have to say that it was the easiest birthday festivity...
View ArticleHow to Move a Family into a Tiny Rental House
We’ve been in our new tiny house for over a month now. As soon as I install one more light fixture in my bed arrives, I’ll do some glam shots. There was some considerable planning involved to move two...
View ArticleWhere we live… Some people say this place doesn’t exist
Sometimes we forget in daily life how lucky we are to live in this gorgeous place! Yes, our Kelowna family does almost everything in the video (although not every day, of course.) We love living here...
View ArticleChristmas is in the air
Having a retail store, we start decorating at work the end of November. It took a week into December for us to get into the Christmas spirit at home. Now we’ve gone out to the Christmas tree farm,...
View ArticleWalking 15 Irish Wolfhounds
It’s now becoming an annual Christmas tradition… This weekend we went on a lovely walk with 14 other Irish Wolfhounds and their people down in Mission, BC. Our own year old baby, Tully, had a blast...
View ArticleEnd of this season of my life, and this blog
Some 11 years ago I started this blog. I was flush in the nesting phase of life: building a marriage with my new husband, preparing for adding two children, and focussing on the family we were...
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