‘Family’ Articles

Do you ever do weird things as a parent like rock an empty stroller out of habit, or hum kids songs at work? Here are some of the things I've done... [Read More...]

Our family went camping up to Salmon Arm last week. We really had a great time, but as you may have read in my previous post, the drive up tested our strengths as parents. The night before, we stopped at a campground in Penticton and discovered that there was a problem with the water connector [Read More...]

My daughter was upstairs for a minute so I yelled out “What are you doing?”. She yelled back “I’m just drinking some…some…some… from the contact bottle?”. “You’re drinking from my contact solution bottle?” as I ran upstairs in a panic thinking that she would have to have her stomach [Read More...]

While we were camping this week, my daughter Charlee asked me if I could take her to climb a mountain. (I’m pretty sure she got this idea from watching a Dora or Diego episode ! haha) So I called Cliffhangers Richmond to see if a three year old could climb, and they told me that [Read More...]

I absolutely love being a dad and having a family, and I especially love taking them RVing! This week, we had the ultimate test by taking a three week old infant and a three year old toddler RVing to the Okanaghan. Lucky for us, both kids are very well behaved and travel well. Our youngest [Read More...]

After some encouragement from my Twitter followers over the last year, I have finally decided to make an attempt at creating my own blog! About a year ago, I met Lara McCulloch-Carter at an ISES Canada national board retreat where she introduced me to Twitter. It took me almost six months before I really understood [Read More...]