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Top Five/Bottom Five: Smells (The Household Edition)

It’s been a long while since my last Top Five/Bottom Five post — so long, in fact, we were still talking about winter (praise be, ice is finally behind us). Tobia recently mentioned that…

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  • Home, Top Five/Bottom Five
  • May, 15, 2025
  • 48 Comments

Why Not Make the Little Things Beautiful?

In the comment section of a recent post, mbmom11 mentioned how much joy her $9 (purple, sparkly!) phone case brings her — and it got me thinking about the surprisingly big impact small aesthetic…

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  • Creativity, Favourite Things, Gratitude, Joy, Personality Insights
  • May, 14, 2025
  • 48 Comments

Best Beaches in Nova Scotia (Local Guide + Map)

Jana asked me to talk about beaches in Nova Scotia, and now that I’ve shed my winter duds for another season, it seems like the perfect time to discuss a warm-weather topic!

Nova Scotia is…

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  • Nova Scotia, Beaches
  • May, 13, 2025
  • 45 Comments

Some Things We Ate in April

Apparently, people are interested in what ends up on our dinner table. (Wait – is it dinner? is it supper?) Either way, I’ve been asked to share more about our everyday meals, so I…

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  • Family, Food, Life
  • May, 12, 2025
  • 43 Comments

Happy (and Hard) Things Friday: 9 May

This week was not my favourite. Nothing objectively terrible happened, but it felt like walking around with pebbles in my shoes. (For people I care about, it was more like giant boulders.)

If you’ll allow…

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  • Happy Things Friday, Hard Things
  • May, 09, 2025
  • 67 Comments

Gratitude in Practice: Laura Vanderkam!!

If you’d told me five years ago that I’d have a blog, I probably would have believed you. After all, I’ve always loved writing and seem to have an endless supply of things to…

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  • Blogging, Friendship, Gratitude, Guest Post
  • May, 08, 2025
  • 33 Comments

Cool Bloggers Walking Club: The Final Roundup (April 2025)

The second I typed that title I started humming The Final Countdown. Anyone else? Just me?

Moving on.

Just like that, we’ve wrapped up our daily(ish) walks in April! A huge thank you to everyone who…

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  • Cool Bloggers Walking Club, Exercise
  • May, 07, 2025
  • 31 Comments
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