The Little Paper

Family Day, Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Year! Oh, My!
February is a great month to do-it-up family style. Just look at the line-up… a long weekend, cards, chocolates and cookies and unconditional mama-love. Throw a giant paper dragon or two, board games, skiing, sledding and skating into a month custom-made for coziness, comfort food, reflection, relaxation and you’ll probably find yourselves discovering what you’re really into as tribe. How does your family roll?

Here’s a sampling of what we’ve found inspiring, motivating and interesting this month…

We are looking forward to the launch of the new Little Paper website tomorrow morning and we hope you'll come visit! In the meantime, this is one weekend when you won't be able to say there's nothing going on. Checkout our comprehensive Family Day Guide on the website or Christina's Top Picks below. We're very sorry that we'll have to miss our friends Ryan and Lisa from The Centre For Art and Soul on Monday when they appear at The Great Hall with Sho, Mo and the Monkey Bunch . My Pip has been taking drama classes at the centre this winter and loving it so we're very happy they'll be joining us at Totsapalooza on the 21st. Tix are available online and we hope to see you there too! 

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I never liked Valentine's Day much as a grown up but, now that there are littles in the mix, I actually like it a great deal. Baking sugar cookies, scattering pink and red jellybeans on the breakfast table, making and receiving valentines with my girls and, more recently, helping my elder daughter navigate grade school be-mine-etiquette all combine to make it a pretty lovely little mid-winter holiday.

February can seem like the longest 28 days of the year but, considering the array of family events and activities in the city this month, it may well disappear faster than marshmallows in cocoa. Actually, I’ve started to think of getting through February as a kind of board game complete with seasonal chutes and ladders and the odd get out of jail free card.

Here’s the gist of it –