Hellobee

For the last 9 years of my life, I’ve been struggling with complete and total exhaustion. “You’re a young mom with two small kids, of course you’re tired,” I’ve heard. But this bone-aching, absolutely draining, all-consuming sleepiness has gotten in the way of my life for too long to just be ‘normal’ sleep deprivation. I’ve […]

Baby Oats is nearly 18 months old, and the last few weeks have been hell on the sleep front. Several days in a row, he was up every half hour all night. Bedtime was a struggle; he was still nursing to sleep, but he would comfort nurse for up to two hours at once. After […]

By 30 weeks pregnant with Baby Oats, Mr. O and I had decided that we were definitely, definitely in the ‘two and through’ camp. Pregnancy is SO rough on my body (SI joint dysfunction, awful morning sickness, back pain, swelling, blood pressure problems…and the list goes on). Labour is no treat either, but that’s not […]

Tonight, before bed, Little Oats asked me to tell her a story about school. Ever since I mentioned, offhand, that kindergarten registration starts in a few weeks, she has been obsessed with the idea of going to school. She asks me to painstakingly outline every aspect of her day; what she will pack, how long […]

It’s the time of year again when I start noticing things that I might not otherwise pay attention to. What kinds of things? Well, there’s the link to a monthly coffee subscription service that shows up on my Facebook feed. There’s the cleverly displayed catalogs on my coffee table, pages earmarked and circled. And then there’s that list […]

The holiday season is just around the corner, and with kids who actually ‘get’ the concept of Santa, it’s becoming a struggle to keep Christmas from turning into a gift-getting extravaganza. Little Oats is obsessed with the idea of Santa, and has a list of things (some not-so-realistic) that she hopes to find beneath the […]

Growing up, Christmas was full of traditions. There were things that we could count on, regardless of where we were or who we were with. One of these traditions was reading ‘The Night Before Christmas’. Another was having tourtiere and Christmas pudding for dinner after our church service. But the most memorable tradition was getting […]