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    Baby Update: Lil’ Buddy is 8 months old!

    April 21, 2020 - By 

    Back on my old website, I used to provide monthly updates for my family and friends back home and around the world on how Lil’ Ziggy was growing. I thought it only fitting that I continue that tradition with Lil’ Buddy! You know how second children go, you always tend to miss a few things that you were diligent about with the first one. Even on social media, where I’ve been doing the majority of my communication for the past few years, I’ve been skipping months with Lil’ Buddy. But as I was looking back on old posts about Lil’…

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    Welcome to MonicaBooth.ca!

    April 14, 2020 - By 

    Hello, friends! Welcome to the first post of my new(est) blog, monicabooth.ca! I’m so excited to finally have this website up and running, and I can’t wait to start writing posts and sharing them with you! You may recognize my older posts from my previous blog, Boothopia. Not much has changed in terms of the look and feel of this website, but I’m happy to now be blogging under my own name. It just feels so much more like… me. In case you’re a brand-new visitor, a super welcome to you, and please allow me to introduce myself! My name…

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    Life Lately and October Goals

    October 2, 2017 - By 

    I’m sitting in a new coffee shop right now, trying to think of what to write. How do I sum up my life lately, in the past five months since I last posted? I’m sure, if there is anyone still reading my posts, they’re wondering why I even bother to blog anymore. Well, it’s because I still want to write. On this blog. The desire is there. The motivation, though, has been really lacking as of late. I was away for a couple of weeks in August and as for the rest of my time, I have really just talked…

  • Family - Goalsetting - Home - planning

    Life Lately and May Goals

    May 6, 2017 - By 

    Happy May, everyone! So I know this’ll be another long one, but here’s what I’ve been up to lately, and the goals I hope to achieve this month! I will admit, coming up to May was a little stress-inducing for me with it being the first anniversary of the wildfire that turned our world upside down last year. I found it really hard to be on Facebook and Twitter from about the middle of the last week of April until pretty much now. They were both filled with images of the day we had to pack up and leave, not knowing if…

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    Where I’m going, where I’ve been

    February 26, 2017 - By 

    If you’ve hung around the mom-blogging world long enough now, I bet you’ve heard an endless amount of advice to limit or even eliminate screen time for children, especially the wee ones ages two and under. Well, I’m here to tell you that Uncle YouTube saves my life on the regular. Today, for example, I was battling yet another bout of tonsillitis, and so my husband went to church without me and Lil’ Ziggy. And show of hands, who has experience in this: when hubby is home alone with the little tyke, the little tyke has no problem playing happily by himself…

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    Why my blog has gone silent (truth bomb)

    May 18, 2016 - By 

    *NOTICE* strong language at the end of this post where I lose my darn mind. I haven’t posted on my blog since Valentine’s Day. I miss blogging, and I think about it all day, every day. But with everything that has gone on, I haven’t gotten farther than creating a few drafts. I have my son’s one-year update almost finished, even though he turned one a couple of months ago. With every passing day, I feel like an explanatory post is getting bigger and more daunting. So I’m going to just lay it all out there right now, without thoughtful…