See? Easy. Our third son, Duff, works with Special Needs adults. An exhausting, trying, patience-testing, infinitely rewarding sort o...

I think he did just fine! Many men take a very active role in child-rearing in this modern day. There are baby-change-stations in pub...

Sometime, I’d like to take a trip, To parts mysterious and deep, ‘Cross vast and strange new lands, I’d skip, While tooling in my...

See the guy in the background? That's Dad. Entertaining the troops. Foreground, the troops.  My Father-In-Law (hereinafter known a...

I spent part of my Sunday helping in the Nursery at our church. It was an experience. Twenty little kids, ages 1 ½ to 3 years. What...

Today, January 6, would be my Mom’s 90 th birthday. Wow. 90. Missing her today . . . Mom It’s odd, but when I think of my mom,...

Probe, (n): a   parlor game   introduced in the 1960s by   Parker Brothers. It is reminiscent of the simple two-person game   Hangman, whos...

It’s been a roller-coaster of a winter, weather-wise, here in Edmonton. Okay, I know that, calendar-ally, we are only two weeks into it...

New Year’s Eve. A time of food. Fun. Family. And beating the pants off someone at this year’s game of choice. The game for the la...

My Husby, loves fire. Really. When we lived on the farm, our neighbours always knew when he was home. Inevitably, his presence was betrayed...

Our family believes in good nutrition. We do. It just doesn’t always sound like it . . . My son and DIL were entertaining. Dinner w...

Mr. Booger Finger. And Baby Brother. Photo: Kallie-Jo Tolley Photography In our house, over the holidays, love and good will abound....

One of the most beautiful Christmas presents I've ever seen. Created by my son, Mark, for his wife, Barb . . . First, the poem: Th...

A guest post by my Husby. Or 'Santa' as he is so affectionately known . . . Being married to a writer like my Beloved Diane is a ...

Merry Christmas  from  The Tolleys! PJ's 2013 And The Tolleys 2013

I know many of you have read this before. But it's my favourite Christmas story. :) In the Tolley household, Christmas . . . the actual...

A visit with Santa and Mrs. If a picture is worth 1000 words, here's 5000 words worth . . . What can I say that could possibly top thi...

Mmmmmm . . . Every family has customs at Christmas. Some are fun. Some funny. Some weird. Our family has several that fit into this last...

Husby is doing much better. Not out of the woods yet, but the forest is thinning . . . Thank you, everyone for your good wishes. They really...