Lackadaisical Breakfasts And A Dad’s Memorial To His Daughter

It was a rare weekday morning that my spouse and I got to enjoy a slower pace in the morning. Mornings are usually rushed between dogs, cooking breakfast, and getting ready for the commute to work. This particular morning was a different experience, one I would even describe as serene.

While I was picking up lattes from The Snapping Turtle (I love them so much!), my handsome fella was picking up breakfast sandwiches from Tim Hortons. We love the Harvest Sandwich made with vegetarian sausage. It’s one of my favourite things from Tim Hortons, I hope they keep making them.

It was a beautiful day and we wanted to be outside. We picked “The Nicole Bench”. This bench was set up recently in my town and I was curious what the “N” or “Z” meant. A man was tending the spot while we were out walking, we stopped and chatted for a bit. It was a memorial for his daughter, taken too soon. She loved to sit out there and watch the water. He made this tranquil spot in her honor and faced the bench in her favourite direction. It was heartbreaking really.

We enjoyed the view that morning while we sat and ate our breakfast, enjoying each other’s company, loving that we had this quiet peaceful morning together. Very rare and so much appreciated. These small moments mean so much because you just never know.

Advent Calendar Day!

It’s that magical time day of the year when many a folk get to open their first advent calendar surprise. Day one, the day you find out if your advent calendar sucks, or will be full of joy. You always seem to know by that first peak. I’ve been enjoying advent calendars most of my adult life. We had them sporadically as kids, but not very often. I so love them. I’ve had tea advent calendars and many many chocolate ones. I haven’t splurged on a wine one yet, but I hope to… I really hope to.

This is my second cheese advent calendar. The first one I had was last year. It was a commercially made one, but I don’t remember the brand. It was really good and I loved it. This year the local cheese shop was offering the commercial cheese advent calendar, or a homemade from the store version. I jumped on the in store version and I’m so glad I did.

It was packaged so beautifully and has decently large chunks of cheese (which is great since I am sharing with my spouse. We’re splitting each day between the two of us). I love that all the cheese is labeled. What a perfect way to discover new favourites. I’m not sure how many different kinds of cheese there are since I’m only on day one, but I’m hopeful it’s a lot, dare I even hope for a different kind each day??? Either way, I can already tell this is going to be an awesome advent calendar.

When Shopping Local Is Awesome

FEBRUARY 2021 CHEESE OF THE MONTH

St Marys is small, but it has some shopping gems. One of these gems is the local cheese shop The Towne and Country Cheese Shop of St. Marys. They are a lunch deli and cheese shop that offers gluten free and vegetarian options (I’m unsure if they have vegan options). They now offer something magical and wonderful… Cheese of the month!

The cheese is only available for pick up and you wont be able to find anything out about it online (There is no information on their website, I only found out about it because it was listed in the local paper). The flavours in this month’s box were Wensleydale Creamery Yorkshire Wensleydale Pineapple, Smoked Chipotle, Ford Farm Cheesemakers Wensleydale With Raspberry and White Chocolate Curls, and Coombe Castle Chocolot cheese.

Every month you will get 3-4 different kinds of cheese totaling about 1.5lbs of cheese. They packaged it up beautifully for a boutique experience that was a delight to unbox. The cheese comes with pairing and serving suggestions and information about the cheese. I love love love that there was a heart shaped cheese for the month of Valentine’s Day (there were more flavours of the heart shaped cheese, at the shop).

I’m excited to try new and interesting cheeses each month and plan on staying signed up for awhile.