Two Good Men | Halifax, NS

We sat and talked while the baby slept nearby.  She had just given birth six days earlier and was still feeling the effects.  Until she's feeling 100%, her husband picks up the slack.  He brought snacks to us, carried my gear, and ran for wipes.  She and I talked about how lucky we were, two girls with good guys to take care of us.   Hers with her new baby, mine with my cancer struggle.  We feel the love.  And know how incredibly lucky we are.  Good men are hard to find; I know, it took me a long time to find mine and I'm not letting him go.

...Kare

email:  karenk{at}eastlink.ca

website:  http://www.karenkyte.com

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Things I Love - Sweet Potato Fries Halifax, NS

Well, that's not really true.  I don't generally LOVE sweet potato fries.  I like them, but I only order them on occasion.

But I really love the sweet potato fries at Montana's in Bayer's Lake.  Really.  Jason and I tend to end up there on Date Night, that one night every week or so when we can sit across from each other and have a conversation with no distractions.  He has a thing for the Goat Cheese Chicken Something or Other (I don't order it so I don't have to know the specific name).  I'm a picker - he lets me scoop some goat cheese off his plate even though he's not allowed anything from my plate - and the goat cheese is fab.u.lous! 

I get cranky when I'm hungry (you didn't know that?) so we sometimes order an appetizer to keep me happy.  We tried a few different things but hit the jackpot with the sweet potato fries - better than I've had anywhere else, they've now become our go-to app.  Try 'em, you won't be disappointed.  Then, take your receipt when you leave and fill out the customer survey online and get a code for a free app the next time you go back.  Win, win.

Oh, if you're going and want company, give me a buzz.

 

:-)

xoxo

...Kare

email:  karenk{at}eastlink.ca

website:  http://www.karenkyte.com

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Perfecting the Stirfry | Halifax, NS

Admittedly, I'm not much of a cook.  I mean, I can cook.  Really, I can.  But since Jason moved in, he's taken over the cooking responsibilities.  When it's my turn, we go out for dinner.  

Lately, though, we've come up with a shared meal:  he barbecues us some delicious steak, while I take on the stirfry in the kitchen.  I throw whatever veggies we have on hand into a frying pan, add some sauce, stir, and I'm done.  Easy peasy.  Except there are two things we have in the house that we love in the stirfry that I regularly forget.  Pineapple and almonds.  I usually remember after the meal is over.  Way too late then!

On the menu tonight:  steak and stirfry.  I better get the almonds and pineapple out.

From the last time we cooked together...

 

 

 

 

...Kare

email:  karenk{at}eastlink.ca

website:  http://www.karenkyte.com

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Photo Project: Motion | Halifax, NS

Part of the photography journey is practicing your craft.  I'm lucky enough to be part of wonderful photography community where we share tips, tricks, and encouragement.  In order to better ourselves, we have weekly assignments - someone picks a topic, we all go out and try to capture a photo that embodies that topic, then we critique each photo.  It helps us stretch our muscles to take better pictures, but also helps us to look at someone else's work with a more critical eye.

This week's assignment:  Motion.

My nephew, Nicholas, and I put his dog, Sebastien, to work for this one...

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think we did a pretty good job of capturing Sebastien's motion.  Next week's assignment:  Yellow.  

 

Oh dear.

 

 

...Kare

email:  karenk{at}eastlink.ca

website:  http://www.karenkyte.com

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I took a break... Halifax, NS

I took a break.  From everything - blogging, facebooking, life.  I turned inward, unable to cope.  It wasn't even the cancer that broke me, life just became unbearable. 

Luckily, it didn't last long.  Because, really, my life is pretty darned good, cancer and all.  What the hell do I have to complain about?  Not too much.

I want to remember today.  Today I sit with a puppy at my feet and I watch his chest rise and fall as he sleeps.  He woke me this morning with cold wet kisses on my nose (gross!), but I didn't mind.  Today I feel good, I feel optimistic, I feel loved, and I feel thankful.

xoxo
...Kare

I Am... | Halifax, NS

I am a daughter, a sister, a friend. 

I am kind, compassionate, affectionate.

I am grateful, loyal, and in love.

I am shy.  I am easily amused.  I am hopeful.

Cancer will help shape the me I become.  It will not define me.

...Kare

email:  karenk{at}eastlink.ca

website:  http://www.karenkyte.com

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Pixie Dust | Halifax, NS

I received a very special `Kare`package yesterday from my friend Krista and her adorable kids, Lauren and Mitchell.  It was filled with assorted goodies that made me smile, but the one pretty, purple present that I need to share is the fabulous jar of Pixie Dust...

Or is it?  A Freudian slip perhaps considering where I might need the most help.  :-)

xoxo

...Kare

email:  karenk{at}eastlink.ca

website:  http://www.karenkyte.com

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