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    What “Simple Living” LOOKED like in 2020 (how cute!).

    February 15, 2023 - By 

    It has been a HOT MINUTE since I last posted on this blog. There are reasons for that. Many reasons. Reasons I’d like to get into, but today is not that day. TODAY is the day when I take the last (and only) post in my drafts and COMMENT on it. Because it was written about halfway through 2020. I was going over this post today to see if there was anything that I could salvage for a brand new post about my ongoing journey toward living a simpler life with purpose. You see, it’s *still* a topic that I…

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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 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…

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    A letter to my spouse on Valentine’s Day

    February 14, 2016 - By 

    My love, Valentine’s is only one day a year. One day. And yet, it’s one of the most talked-about and anticipated days on the calendar. In the world of holidays, Valentine’s is one of the top. And why wouldn’t it be? I mean chocolate! Flowers! Steak! A million ways to say “I love you” on one day. One day. *** One day in 2009, I put on my makeup frantically in my room, in my student house down the street from campus. House is polite. It was a shack. I tried to play it off like it wasn’t a big…