Sweet Extract

I’m very lucky to have a wonderful husband who takes care of me and my boys so that I can live the Canadian dream.
Thank you, Javier.
You’re just like the Canadian government but way sexier!

Ah, the blissful spoils of mother’s day. Is there anything more a mom can ask for?
Disclaimer: My sweet, SWEET WONDERFUL husband did his best. Most everything that went wrong was not his fault and he could not have stopped it from happening.
Javier made reservations at a new restaurant in the city. A restaurant whose chef [...]

I never thought I’d be one those women. I never thought I’d be someone who would nurse my children indefinitely.
I thought, at best, I would nurse my boys until they were 6 months. If I was lucky. If I was lucky enough to have babies who made it easy for me. Babies who took to [...]

Hope you are all having a merry little Christmas night.
xoxoxo Javier, Catherine, Sebastian & Nicholas

Well, we finally did it. We abandoned our babies and left town for an adults-only weekend. It IS our first anniversary, after all.
Vegas seemed like the nearest destination where we could effectively pack in such vices as fine dining (damn fine!), drinking, cigar smoking, gambling and other mature amusement that we’ve thoroughly neglected in [...]

For anyone who’s wondering if there’s a family resemblance, that’s Nicholas at one year old on the left and me at the same age on the right.
Yeah, I think I can see a little something.
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Well, pragmatism has finally come to mock me. Babies + dog = sensible car. And sensible car, sadly, does not equal a convertible… sigh.
For the last 11 months, I’ve been driving Javier’s SUV and he’s been driving the convertible. It was a reasonable compromise because the infant car seats could easily be snapped out when [...]

No longer in the huddled mass, longing to be free!