I am so excited to meet you next month at the Small Business Expo put together by Ottawa Artisans. I was honoured when I was asked to set up a mini portrait studio during the event to help create brand visuals for your marketing, and you’re going to love what I have in store for… Read More »Ottawa Artisans Presents: Small Business Expo 2023 ..read more

If you have found your way to this page, it means you were likely looking for the Boss Mama Diaries, but since the parenting and education blog was moved to its own domain (hurray!), there are a few links that got missed in the redirection process. Oops. While I finish the URL change tasks over… Read More »MIA? Boss Mama Diaries ..read more

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On the eve of my due date, the contractions officially started. Thankfully they subsided right as I was wanting to sleep, and I fully expected them to start up again early the next morning like the last time. Nope. But they came in full force that night as I settled in to sleep. Great. All The post Our Birth Story appeared first on Stephanie de Montigny ..read more

The last three months of our lives have been what feels like the longest and the fastest stretch of changes of our entire lives. We decided to sell our house, we cleaned and packed up as much as we could and listed in record time, sold it after a long ten days of invasive showings, The post We have BIG News! appeared first on Stephanie de Montigny ..read more

Okay, so perhaps “skipping” is too harsh of a word because we didn’t skip Christmas entirely, it was just not a priority this year to keep with all the traditions since we had just welcomed our baby earthside and were running on no sleep and not accepting any visitors. My level of commitment this year The post Christmas 2021 – Skipping The Holiday Traditions appeared first on Stephanie de Montigny ..read more

He’s here! He is absolutely beautiful, strong (and strong-willed just like his sister!), and born at over nine pounds and growing so fast! You can read all about our birth story too, but for now a big thank you to our photographer, Lisa Johnson, for these amazing keepsakes from our first portrait session as a The post Baby Boy Is Here! appeared first on Stephanie de Montigny ..read more

This year for Halloween, we kept to the traditional sense of things, but still made sure to focus on the experience rather than things. Little miss enjoyed herself so much this weekend because she got to dress up as her favourite food, take several walks around the block (even the dark, which she looooved!) over The post When Experiences Matter Most | Halloween 2021 appeared first on Stephanie de Montigny ..read more

I quite enjoyed my first pregnancy, only had a couple of weeks of nausea (which was solved by strawberries and cheese bread!), and didn’t feel too much pain in the end and would have happily gone the extra two weeks. But this pregnancy has been really hard on me, physically and emotionally. The morning (ahem, The post The Second Pregnancy Hits Different appeared first on Stephanie de Montigny ..read more