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Greetings from Canada!  I’m Arnica and my husband’s name is Jason. This blog chronicles our lives with our twin girls, “Sugar” and “Spice”, who we adopted from Ethiopia in 2009.

We are now pursuing a second adoption from Lesotho, with the hopes of bringing home a little brother for Sugar and Spice.

Jason’s big hobby is the NFL: he’s a big San Fransisco 49ers fan.  He also enjoys watching WW2 movies, eating Indian food and mucking in the garden, especially with his roses. Jason has been practicing veterinary medicine for 10+ years.

Arnica keeps busy taking pictures, vegetable gardening and reading. She is a serious foodie, not-serious-at-all wine officinado and loves to cook. She volunteers as President of Vulnerable Children Society, and pays the bills working as a college professor and strategic consultant. Arnica specializes in sustainable business, non-profit management and environmental education and communications.

We both have a passion for wine and travel, enjoy scooting around town on our bikes and spending time outdoors.  Since our girls have come home, we’ve also learned to love watching ducks by the nearby creek, reading stories at bedtime, doing crafts and artwork (ok, so not Jason!) and pretending we are just about every animal on the face of the planet. We overhauled our 1916 historic home in Alberta, and renovated our 1940s Cotswald cottage in BC as well. The yard and garden are our fix-up focus now. Our 2 dogs and 2 cats are our family and we get a kick out of their daily antics.  We spend a lot of time entertaining, and visiting friends and relations across Canada. We are blessed with health, happiness and two wonderful little girls.