by Shadra Bruce | Making Memories
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce I admit it. When the trend of sending out the annual family newsletter accompanied the invention of the deskjet printer, I was pretty disheartened. The holidays, which had already become a bit impersonal, took a giant step toward...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Making Memories
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Christmas was so much easier when all the kids were young. The holidays were hardly over and they were counting down again. Now three of our kids are adults and the other two are tweens with ‘tudes. I don’t want a house full of holiday...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Making Memories
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Mistletoe is a fun tradition during the holiday season, giving our family excuses to show our love on a regular basis. The first year we lived in our current house, Christmas 2008, we couldn’t decide where to put the Mistletoe, so...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Making Memories
Getting Real With Wanda Morrissey Growing up, my mother, grandmother and aunts always made their own jams, jellies, and preserves. I always helped make them and I certainly helped eat them. I really missed these homemade goodies when I moved away from home. Last...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Making Memories
Getting Real With Wanda Morrissey Have you ever given a child a camera? You should. It’s a lot of fun. Jeffrey loves cameras. He wants to hold mine, play with it and push the buttons. He absolutely has to see the picture after it’s been taken. I was going to get him...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Making Memories
Getting Real With Wanda Morrissey Some of my favourite summer memories are of family camping trips. Dad would pack the tent, sleeping bags, camp stove, a cooler full of food and off we’d go for a week or just a weekend. I ended up marrying a man who doesn’t like to...
