Things I Write About

• My list and progress on the 101 things in 1001 days challenge
• The 10 new restaurants or coffee shops we tried for the 101 things in 1001 days challenge
• I'm trying 50 new recipes as part of my 101 things in 1001 days challenge
• I'm doing the 52 weeks of organizing challenge as we try to get our life organized
• Some of my experiences trying acupuncture
• Christmas advent pictures from some (but not all) previous years
• We're going on ten adventures as part of the 101 things in 1001 days challenge
  
• Stuff about Alex
  
• Sometimes we decide it's time to make an announcement
• Postcards from Australia
• Little, lovely babies who do not belong to us (ours is the cub)
• Musings about Bard on the Beach
• Postcards from Belarus
  
• Postcards from Belgium (2)
• Reasons why birds terrify me
  
• Some fun stuff from various birthday parties we've been to or about people who have birthdays or just about birthdays in general
• Things that happen in blog land
• Our beloved blue house, where we haven't actually lived for four years
• My obsession, books...okay, so this is not my only obsession
  
• That time Rebecca and I went to boot camp
• Postcards from Brazil
• Adventures riding the bus
• Postcards from Canada, a place which I also happen to call home
• Things in our lives experiencing some kind of change
• Sometimes I check in on my progress with the 101 in 1001 challenge
• Postcards from China
• The challenges of the crazy diet and eating following the GAPS diet and Nourishing Traditions
• My favourite holiday: Christmas and some of our Christmas adventures like the Santa Claus Parade
• My memories from previous Christmases for the Christmas Memory Challenge which I did in 2011 instead of advent pictures
• My adventures in creative eating while following the crazy diet, in one form or another including a stint on the GAPS diet
  
• Bizarre current events surrounding a crocodile
• The story of J when she was just called the cub
• Postcards from the Czech Republic
  
• The deck that we loved and is still part of the blue house. Where we don't live any more...
• The never-ending task of decluttering and organizing our space and our lives because I am a pack rat
• Postcards from Denmark
• Some nights we have dinner with Martha or with Jamie Oliver and sometimes we do a little baking with Martha and occasionally we eat the Pioneer Woman's ranch food
• That time I had something weird wrong with me and we could have used some help from Dr. House 
• Easter
• Postcards from Estonia
• My great big, huge, very wonderful and hugely entertaining family
• Stories from when we take a field trip
• Postcards from Finland
• mmmmmm.....food
• Postcards from France
• Stories about my awesome and wonderful friends
• Visions of the future
• Games. Because we like to play games at our house. Board games. Stop it.
• I'm working on getting healthier and part of that is taking yoga (I used write about it over on Get Fit Chicks, but the site is gone...all of my posts moved over here though)
• Postcards from Germany
• Babbling about the ghosts we shared a house with
• The Great Book Challenge
• Postcards from Greece
• Sometimes I get a little grumpy and feel the need to share. Sorry.
• One of the things I do a lot of is Guiding. As in Girl Guides. Not showing people around places. And Guiding helped make me who I am today.
• Hallowe'en
• Stories about my tiny home, long ago, the Hobbit Hole
• Our national sport, hockey (okay, fine, ONE of our national sportS) and rants about the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot of 2011
• A long time ago (at least it feels that way), we went on a honeymoon
  
• Postcards from Hong Kong
• Postcards from Hungary
• We got kicked out of our lovely blue house and that started the hunt for the perfect home of our own.
• I did NaBloPoMo in March of 2011 - the challenge for the month was "In A Word".
  
• Sometimes I'm afflicted with insomnia and that can lead some interesting ramblings!
• Postcards from Iran
• Postcards from Ireland
• Postcards from Israel
• We went to Italy on our honeymoon and I'm part Italian. And sometimes I write about Italy. And sometimes I get postcards from Italy.
• Postcards from Japan
• k-town is where I grew up and these days where we go for many of our holidays.
• We keep our world in (sort of) order using our kitchen book.
• I like to knit
• Lessons from Squirt also known as the cub
• Life. That says it all
• I make lists. Lots of lists. I like them. I like checking things off lists. Lists are good.
• Postcards from Lithuania
• The local-seattle-based-soccer- mom-mega-coffee-shop - yes, it has a nine letter shorter name
• London. Ahhh. My other home.
• The Lyons' den is the place we found for our family during the hunt
• We're in the (very long) process of making our house (okay, so it's a condo) our home
• Postcards from Malaysia
• Tales from (or of) Mother Nature
• movies - not that we watch many of these anymore...
• Every once in a while I post a recipe that I came up with (somehow...)
• Postcards from The Netherlands
• New Year, which, in my world, typically happens in September
• Postcards from Norway
• not-the-blue-house, otherwise known as the pink palace
• Our Chalet, where I spent an awesome three months...a long time ago now
• Our Wedding. Yup. We got married.
• paper, one of my obsessions
• past...not present or future
• Pax Lodge, where strangers soon are friends
• My various attempts at using a pedometer which invariably result in the loss of said pedometer
• Postcards from the Philippines
• Photos. Which are all taken by me (or Alex) unless otherwise indicated
• The pink palace which most certainly was not a palace
• Beautiful, leafy, green plants
• Postcards from Poland
• Postcards from Portugal
• Postcards, another obsession
• postcrossing - that which helps fuel at least one of my obsessions
• Procrastination, one of the skills this blog helps encourage
  
• Rambling, because it happens
• Sometimes it's nice to receive real mail, not just email and bills
• Because sometimes you just have to scratch your head and ask, really?
• Remember When? and remembering
• Resolutions, which I typically don't even bother to make
• Postcards from Romania
• Postcards from Russia
• Life isn't always rainbows and unicorns, sometimes there is sadness too
• Shannon - that's me!
• Postcards from Singapore
• Postcards from Slovenia
• Sometimes someone gives you something special
• When our life changed and left me with a sore back
• Postcards from Spain
• One of those things I hate doing until I'm done doing it - swimming
• Postcards from Switzerland
• Postcards from Taiwan
• My crazy sister, Team Hardcore and those who go out and support her
• Postcards from Thailand
• That lovely October holiday, Thanksgiving
• The Great Book Challenge, which has its own website
• Travelling far and near
• Postcards from Turkey
• Postcards from Türkmenistan
• Our adventures in the UK in 2009 with a toddler
• Postcards from Ukraine
• Postcards from the United Kingdom
• Some urban wild life
• Postcards from the USA
• The awesomeness that was the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and Paralympics
• Lovely people who come to visit us
• Weddings that aren't ours
• Then there are days when I ask, why bother?
• And last but not least, to keep myself sane with all of that going on, I practice yoga