Lil Sis and BIL have been coming to Vancouver every year for several years now. She visits me in Vancouver and then they are off towards Interior BC to visit his family. It was just the most gleeful news to learn BIL has family here. They may have been visiting annually in the summer since…
Hitting the gym at 6 weeks PP
This is not revolutionary for anyone except for me. For years and years I knew I’m missing strength training from my life in general (particularly as I get older) and when I was a runner, I would have benefited with resistence training alongside the intense cardio. As time drew closer to when I would go…
Next-level conscientious (I)
I’ve been working on this post for quite a while and life my lifehacks (Part 1) post, there really is no end to it. So at some point, I will cut off this list and just post and here is a guarantee there will be a follow-up post. This post itself is following up on…
Quality over quantity? Dining out around Vancouver (six-month round-up)
This would be my round-up spanning the longest interval yet. I’m at a bit of a crossroads for what to do with my dining photos now that I allow my phone to automatically back up to the cloud (Google Photos) yet I don’t want so many food photos to be interspersed amongst “life photos” and…
On pushing, shopping and new phase of life
So we’ve got this really fresh nine-day-old baby around and life is … good! Better than I expected but it’s the shiny honeymoon phase where NPY is off and while we struggle a little with the new schedule and kiddo’s adjustment to things, NPY is around and off work. In another week, he’s back at…
Conscientious cooking (I)
In the past few months, I have been Conscientious Cooking and Post-Partum Prepping. It’s been a ride and not over yet. In between it all, I’m still making our favourite staples with meat (and post-partum recipes are not vegetarian/vegan), including: steamed egg and pork patty, mapo tofu, braised fuzzy melon with pork, egg salads, etc….
The second name
On Victoria Day weekend, we spent the holiday Monday at BC Children’s Hospital – kiddo is okay, a walk-in doc was super-cautious and sent us to ER to rule out appendicitis and we ended up with a cold diagnosis. That is where we pretty much decided on the name for #2 after laying the topic…
Me time (aka pre-mat leave time off work)
Last time around, I tried to hoard my vacation days and only booked the week before my due date off. I ended up missing my last two scheduled days of work, calling in “sick” the Thursday because my water broke and I was in the hospital all day, and officially on mat leave on my…
Mobi (bike sharing) – Year 2
My second year with Mobi is winding down and conveniently, that timing coincides with a new year of fitness reimbursement from my firm and the beginning of mat leave – sweet. For reasons nothing to do with Mobi’s products and services, I’m not continuing with a third continuous year but instead cancelling. I blogged about…
A week of Planted Meals for my last week of work
This week of work is my last week of work for some 80 weeks … ! To celebrate/mark/get through this milestone week, I treated myself to a work week’s worth of Planted Meals (full price, too!) and I was super excited because it was all different recipes from last time. In addition, I qualified for…