If you read the blog regularly or follow me on Twitter, you probably already know I welcomed my third child, a baby girl, on Nov 28th. I haven’t written a formal post welcoming her yet because I have been feeling a bit emotional about the whole thing and I needed to give myself a little bit of time. If you have been reading my blog for a while, you know that this baby was a huge surprise for us. Not even 3 weeks before I found out I was pregnant, Hubby and I had abandoned our idea of a third read more…

Being as I am one day from my due date with Baby #3, I thought I would focus on what is making me happy right now… nice stuff!! Yup, I am shallow and I can admit it and nice stuff makes me feel good so I thought I would share some of my fav things with all of you. Don’t forget… Xmas is just around the corner, so if your man needs some pointers like my man does, then tell him to read this post and pick you up a thing or two for under the Christmas Tree. You know read more…

Congratulations to: Hayley S. & Megs M. You have each won a pair of free passes to this weekends Vancouver Island Baby Fair! Even with my 17mo in the hospital and serious sleep deprivation after being in the ER all night last night, I still found a moment to get this draw done because I know how important baby swag is! Thank you to all my loyal readers and the new readers that entered for this contest. It was my first contest and I hope to be able to have many more in the future! I used a random number read more…

I love fall, it is by far my favourite season though I admit mostly for entirely superficial reasons. It all starts at the end of August; the nights get longer, the days shorter and what hits the store shelves but the best fashion binge of the year, the Vogue September issue. This year I am especially excited  (even though *shocker* no maternity clothes can be found in the colours) because I am absolutely in love with the fall colour palette; It’s all about luxurious shades of brown like camel, staples like black and grey and pops of vivid colour like read more…

Coral pink, hot pink, cherry blossom pink, lilac, aubergine, lavender, mauve, oh and the reds like ruby and crimson and vermilion and oh yeah… tea rose like that cute little shrug that I saw at GAP Kids the other day and I could go on and on about colours but what we are all interested in is what do these colours really mean!?!?!? That’s right!!!! You probably already guessed it!!! The Modish Mama is getting her BABY GIRL. I am soooooooo excited and I am totes going shopping because nothing is going to stop me from buying my first little read more…