Big Boy Room Reveal

I’m happy to finally reveal my oldest son’s big boy room! I definitely wish I had it ready before baby # 2 arrived (last December) but at least it is done now! I wanted to surprise my son and have the room completely finished when he opened his bedroom door. While he slept over at Grandma and Grandpa’s […]

Happy Friday!

  It’s April 8 so that means it’s gameday, the Toronto Blue Jays’ home opener is tonight!!  Have you read Marcus Stroman’s love letter to Toronto? Check out these interesting links… Are you a parent that plans on having a second child? This article will help prepare you – I wish I read this before we had […]

Planning Your Trip to Disney World

Last year we went with our 18-month-old son to Walt Disney World. I would love to share some tips to anyone who is considering visiting the parks. A few things I want to clear up… age doesn’t matter – I had enough people comment that Nathan was pretty young to be visiting the park. When you […]

Happy Friday!!

Hope you have had a lovely week… I’m pretty excited April is here! My goal is to get organized this month! I need to continue organizing our home office. I have already started using this method in my filing cabinet but I still have work to do. Now that we have 2 kids, every bedroom […]

My Experience with Sleep Training

I want to start this off by saying that this post is not sponsored. I just felt the need to share something with other parents… we sleep trained our toddler and it worked!! When I had my first child I went to a support group after about 2 months just to see what other moms were […]

Kids’ Wall Art

Things are moving ahead for my son’s big boy room. I just picked out a print from Minted to go above a dresser and it is on its way! I can’t wait to show you what I picked in the reveal! Minted is my favourite online art resource because their site isn’t too overwhelming and […]

Our Canadian Rockies Vacation

Last summer we visited the Canadian Rockies for the first time!! I was lucky enough to explore eastern Canada many times but we never travelled out west. I knew from pictures that it would be beautiful but seeing it in person was a whole different feeling… I couldn’t believe what I was looking at, everything […]

Inspirational Boy Bedrooms

Hello, I’m back! It’s been awhile since I posted on Sweet Maple… taking care of a toddler, being pregnant, and working full-time took up most of my time in 2015! 2016 is here and I’m excited to be back. I can’t wait to share with you my latest project… a big boy room! This is […]

One Room Challenge Final Reveal

Welcome back to the One Room Challenge, we are at the end… week 6!!! Hard to believe the challenge is over. I’m pretty excited I made it, not that I didn’t think I wasn’t going to but this last week was crazy. I would like to thank Linda from Calling it Home for putting on […]

One Room Challenge Week 5: Master Bedroom Update

Hello! This is week 5 of the One Room Challenge. To catch up on what’s been going on, have a look at week 1, week 2, week 3 and week 4. I was sitting on my couch watching tv (I may have been watching Duggar family reruns on TLC)  when I realized I have to […]