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Well…School is out for the summer! ☀️ 😅If you’re anything like me, the excitement lasts about 10 minutes, after which yo...
06/30/2026

Well…School is out for the summer! ☀️ 😅

If you’re anything like me, the excitement lasts about 10 minutes, after which your brain goes:

“Wait… they’re home ALL DAY now. 😱 ”

😂

Don’t get me wrong, I genuinely love summer with my kids.

But I also know that I do significantly better when my brain has structure to lean on and into.

In the moment, I tend to get easily paralyzed. What can I say? I’m not the backcountry Mama or the DIY craft Mama… 🤷‍♀️

I need just enough of a general routine that I don’t wake up every morning wondering, “Okay… now what?”

So…I made our family -
The Team Bailey Ansley Summer Club. 🌈

It’s basically a flexible/chill structure for our week:
🍓 Market Day
📚 Library Day
💜 Pajama Party Day
🌊 Adventure Day
🚒 Snack Day
…plus little reminders to read/journal, dance in the kitchen, help around the house, have family meetings, and yes… that Mom deserves a hot coffee too. ☕️😂

I honestly made it for us! And then…

A few friends saw it, and immediately asked if I’d make one for their families too, or show them how.

So now I’m curious…

👇 Would your family actually use something like this? For real. Could it help you, anyone you know, or any caregivers/grandparents/parents you know?

If enough people are interested, I might make a customizable version where you can add your own family name, routines, and traditions/values.

I’d love your thoughts! 🙏🏼

From our family to yours, we hope you’re all having a good start to your summers! 😎 💦

✨ Friday FavouritesThis week’s local combo was Everbean + Bakerview Park.It was sunny AF, the coffee was truly GOOD, and...
06/20/2026

✨ Friday Favourites

This week’s local combo was Everbean + Bakerview Park.

It was sunny AF, the coffee was truly GOOD, and I left very happy, indeed.

Everbean has been one of our favourite local spots for years (for plenty of reasons), but this week they earned extra points. As someone with celiac disease, I’m used to bringing home delicious treats for everyone else and doing a stellar fake that I’m “fine” about it (celiacs are rarely “fine”…btw 😒).

Not this time though!

Their made-in-house gluten-free focaccia filled my belly with morning happiness. But honestly? They take celiac safety seriously. They walked me through their process, explained their precautions, changed gloves, answered my questions, and generally made me feel like eating safely wasn’t an inconvenience. They understood the assignment, folks!

If you’re celiac, you know that’s a big deal.

Then we wandered over to Bakerview Park, which is a great setup for pretty much every kind of kid. Climbers, sliders, swingers, diggers, wanderers… (My kids call this the “library playground”, because we usually do this playground after the library) - but that’s a post for another time!

And if your kid is anything like my son, and occasionally treats playground equipment as a suggestion, there’s plenty of room to make dirt soup and wood-chip casseroles instead…right at your feet so you can sip your Java in peace.

The snickerdoodles came home for the family.

The focaccia came home with me.

Everybody wins.

Not sponsored. Just a couple of local favourites that made our day better.

Pro tip: we arrived 10 AM ish and had some sunny and cool (ish) quiet times there before the crowds descended at 10:30!

☕🛝

Well… this got dusty.White Rock Local has been a little quiet the last few years, and for good reason.Somewhere between ...
06/09/2026

Well… this got dusty.

White Rock Local has been a little quiet the last few years, and for good reason.

Somewhere between these two photos we:

✔ had two kids

✔ moved

✔ stopped sleeping

✔ became weirdly invested in air fryer settings

✔ started discussing exciting topics like preschool registration, property taxes, and whether anyone remembered to switch the laundry

✔ acquired a few grey hairs, a few laugh/worry lines, and an encyclopedic knowledge of playgrounds and snack containers

But honestly? Not much has changed.

We still love this community.

We still believe local businesses are the heart and soul of White Rock and South Surrey.

And if anything, supporting local feels even more important to us now than it did when we first started this account.

It could be, that’s what happens when you start raising the next generation here? You start paying a little more attention to the people, places, and businesses that make a community feel like a home - and wondering how they’re doing.

So consider this White Rock Local 2.0!

The Same people.

More grey hair.

…less disposable income 😜

Stronger opinions about how hot or strong coffee needs to be 🤣

No big rebrand or influencer aspirations.

Just us - (Britt and Mike plus the backs of their two tiny humans) - sharing local finds, local favourites, local life, and let’s face it, the occasional mediocre dad joke.

It’s time to dust things off.

👋 So…How ARE you guys?!

In a very on-brand mom brain moment, I’m just realizing there are only about 7–10 tickets left for The Mothership… and I...
04/20/2026

In a very on-brand mom brain moment, I’m just realizing there are only about 7–10 tickets left for The Mothership… and I haven’t actually shared it on here yet 😅

So — hi, White Rock / South Surrey friends!

If you’ve ever reheated your coffee three times, hidden in your bathroom for a minute of quiet, or ended the day completely overstimulated but still like… you need something? This is basically that kind of night.

It’s a live show (music + storytelling) about all the weird, funny, hard, real parts of this season of life — and it’s happening right here in our community 💜

No pressure at all, just didn’t want it to quietly sell out without letting you know.

Come alone or with a friend — it’s very that kind of night.

Tickets: https://www.showpass.com/the-mothership/

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