For as long as I can remember…I always thought that nothing could possibly be more romantic than falling in love abroad.  A strange land…a passionate love…a romantic tale.  It has always seemed so incredibly dreamy!  Like the perfect love story! The problem was that I wasn’t much of a world traveler when I was younger.  […]

Confession… I used to model as a teenager.  Or rather, I used to model as a preteen…once the overly awkward stage of growing into my legs had passed me by and back when it was still cool to be 5’8″ and 110 pounds!  I didn’t do it for very long.  Mostly because I couldn’t handle […]

Do you remember what it was like on the first day of school?  Dressing up in your new clothes…packing all of your new binders into your backpack…anxiously anticipating who you’ll share a class with?  I always loved the first day of school…but it always made me really nervous too. Starting a new career [especially when […]

At least once a year, Steve and I visit with some close friends of ours who live near Port Elgin.  They have this amazing piece of land, complete with a little lake, tons of trees and an animal or two that may have wandered over from time to time.  Their place is a little piece […]

Every year for Christmas, we get scratch tickets in our stocking!!  All of the Smyth kids sit around the dining room table – silver shavings scattered everywhere – waiting to see if any of us are going to win big!  I never do!!!  I don’t really win contests at all really.  I’m okay with it […]

I was walking through a bookstore yesterday with the kids when I noticed one of my most favourite things about the new year; magazines with the words “year in review” scrolled across the top!  Ugh, every January, I have to stop myself from spending eighty dollars on everything from the best photographs of the year […]