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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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    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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    October Wrap Up and November Goals

    November 2, 2015 - By 

    October has been a busy month. I’m really getting used to living in Calgary, and I enjoy getting out with Lil’ Ziggy and exploring our neighbourhood and beyond. I’ve discovered some great places to take him once the weather gets cold. There certainly are things I miss about Fort McMurray, namely our church and the people in it, and the friends we left behind. It would have been a good place to raise Lil’ Ziggy because they try so hard to make it kid-friendly. But there’s just so much more to do here, there’s no denying it. So much variety. The…

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    Hitting The Wall

    July 27, 2015 - By 

    I hit the wall a couple of weeks ago. That wall where you WANT to write, you want to get your thoughts out, but you just… can’t. There are a few reasons for this, but here are the biggest roadblocks I’m dealing with right now: Lil’ Ziggy stopped sleeping well at night, which is a major bummer after having about six weeks of lovely solid 8-hour slumbers. Over the last few weeks, I spent way too many hours in the darkness, seething and trying to calm myself down so that I can calm HIM down. It was a miserable time for…

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    Boothopia has a new look!

    May 21, 2015 - By 

    You may have noticed that my blog is looking a little different! I woke up this morning with Boothopia migrated over to a new theme, and I just love it. It’s so bright, fresh and welcoming… I feel like it represents me a lot more than my previous theme. Here’s how it happened: I was reading Rahab to Riches a couple of weeks ago and noticed a post about 1000 Blog Makeovers for Mother’s Day. I never REALLY liked my blog theme from the get-go, and it was starting to do some funky things that I really didn’t appreciate, but…

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    Baby Update – 34 Weeks!

    January 27, 2015 - By 

    How far along: 34 weeks – about 6 more to go! Baby size: Lil’ Ziggy is about 4.7 lbs and 18 inches long. I’m measuring at exactly where I should be for 34 weeks too. Belly: Nothing much to say about the belly this week. I don’t think it’s changed much. Here’s a picture – you decide! I look so bleary-eyed. I should start taking my picture first thing in the…. oh that’s right, I’d still be bleary-eyed. Just can’t win. Sleep: It really hasn’t been that bad, all things considered. Not like a few weeks ago where I couldn’t…