Mon Petit Chou

As the weather starts turning and it's time to turn up the thermostat, many art enthusiasts like myself know that  Art Toronto  is just around the corner. I've been a 'regular' at the fair for years and have spent countless hours walking every square inch of the  Metro Toronto Convention Centre  in order to satisfy my visual appetite and to see what the  creme  de la creme of the art world has to offer. This year especially I was eagerly waiting for the program to arrive in my mailbox so that I could diligently study each page (in between feeds) and plan a quick weekend getaway from #momlife. The booklet arrived a few days after Emm was born. It sat on the kitchen table unopened for weeks, as if mocking me every time I walked past it carrying a load of (never ending) laundry, (dirty) diapers and/or (crying) baby. When I finally did get a minute to myself, I ripped open the envelope faster then I had opened my university acceptance letter and studied e...

To be perfectly honest, I never thought I would enter the 'mommy blogging' world. First off, I'm a far cry from being tech-savvy and to me, online print lacks the unmistakable smell of a crisp new book. That being said, since baby Emm's arrival this past August, I have been getting much more acquainted with my smart phone and the blogging community. For starters, it's much easier scrolling through your phone than it is holding your little one with one hand and a book with the other, all the while trying to flip through the pages and zero in on the fine print. Since being up at all kinds of fun hours in the night, I have come across a variety of blogs. Some really good ones and others...well, not so good. I'm a big fan of blogs that are honest, compelling and beautifully stylized. That is what I hope  mon petit chou  will become. I read blogs to get inspired and take a brief mental break from reality. We already deal with so much as parents, a blog, in my mi...