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Tancook Island Family Fun

  Tancook Island “That was one of the best days, ever!” The boys cannot stop raving about our trip to Tancook Island! Little do they remember, we actually took a family trip to the Island 4 years ago, but being so little, they didn’t remember it all. I have no doubt they will remember this […]

Grand Pre National Historic Site

  Grand Pre National Historic Site **Disclosure: I received a family pass in exhchange for this blog post. All opinions are our own. My aim is to encourage more families to become tourists in their own backyards** Upon driving past the Grand Pre National Historic Site earlier in the summer, I realized I had never […]

Prescott House Museum, Port Williams

  Prescott House Museum **Disclosure: We received a NS Museum Pass to visit as many museums in the province as possible!** I think our visit to the Prescott House Museum in Port Williams was our favourite provincial museum thus far. I grew up on the same street as the museum. As a child, I remember […]

Hope for Wildlife Centre

Hope for Wildlife Centre Everything I ever knew about animal rescue centres came from Diego. But there are people right here in our own province who are working hard at animal rescue centres to save animals. The Hope for Wildlife Centre has been on my bucket list for a long time, so when we were […]

Falling Apart

  Help! I’m Getting Old and Falling Apart Have you ever looked down at your hands and thought, those can’t be my hands. Those hands are too old to be my hands. (My grandmother’s hand) It’s starting to happen to me. If someone asks you how old you FEEL, what do you say? In my […]

Oxymoron Party

  How to Host an Oxymoron Party It was about 10 years ago when I found a party planning book from the 1950s in a used book shop. There were some pretty funny ideas for themed parties. Our neighbours at the time were great sports, so we decided to invite them along to our Oxymoron […]

Valley Raceway

  Valley Raceway **Disclosure: I received tickets to Valley Raceway courtesy of K-Rock 89.3. It just means that I got to do some cool investigative reporting!** Everything I ever learned about stock car racing I learned from Lightening McQueen in Cars. I love that movie! But now, I got to see it for real! When […]

One of Everything by Donna Carol Voss

  One of Everything by Donna Carol Voss **Disclosure: I was given a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own** This book took an incredible amount of bravery to write. One of Everything is an autobiography about Donna Carol Voss’ life, and how she experiences pretty much one of everything – […]