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Gratitude Guests: Catrina from Keep on Running!

Organizing this guest post has been such a joy. I only recently discovered Catrina’s blog, but I was hooked from the first visit. Though I haven’t jogged more than a few casual kilometers this…

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  • Blogging, Exercise, Gratitude, Guest Post
  • Jul, 23, 2025
  • 34 Comments

Time to Choose a Side (Literally)

What wrist do you wear your watch on.

I’m right-handed and wear mine on my left wrist. So whenever I see someone wearing a watch on their right wrist, it completely throws me. It’s…

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  • Habits, Personality Insights, Random
  • Jul, 21, 2025
  • 74 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 18 July (Lake Edition)

This was our week at the lake visiting my parents.

These family vacations just keep getting better, especially now that the kids are older. There’s a new kind of ease to it all. With fewer…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • Jul, 18, 2025
  • 41 Comments

Top Things to Do in Wolfville, Nova Scotia – The Best Places to Eat, See & Explore

It’s a bit embarrassing how long it’s taken me to write about the place in Nova Scotia that’s closest to my heart.

Wolfville!

It’s small — just over 5,000 permanent residents — but overflowing with charm,…

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  • Nova Scotia, Travel
  • Jul, 16, 2025
  • 38 Comments

Should I Keep Going? My One Line a Day Connundrum

In 2022, I started a One Line a Day journal, and for a long time, I loved it. Recording a sentence or two about each day felt like creating a time capsule of sorts…

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  • Habits, Organization
  • Jul, 14, 2025
  • 55 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 11 July

This week flew by!

John is feeling better (hooray), and so we hosted a family for supper one evening. It was the epitome of summer entertaining: BBQ and potato salad (which I LOVE), barefoot kids…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • Jul, 11, 2025
  • 48 Comments

Never Have I Ever…Part 9

Made homemade yogurt.

Participated in a parade (I’ve watched a few and have always been underwhelmed).

Eaten dandelion greens.

Owned chickens.

Laminated anything.

Taken an item to a pawn shop. (Or bought an item at a pawn shop.)

Entered a…

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  • Never Have I Ever, Personality Insights, Random
  • Jul, 09, 2025
  • 60 Comments
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