Zaaz Play

09/25/2026

09/13/2026

We’ve arrived in Paris!! 🇫🇷 The jet leg is starting to settle, kind of 😂 Another week to go but bucket list ✔️ already ⬇️

Kids first plane ride. Followed by a 9 hr flight westjet ✔️✈️
Driving in France ✔️🚗
Staying at Center Parcs Villages Nature Paris ✔️🤩
Croissants, coffee & hot chocolate at cafe ✔️ ☕️ 🍫 🥐
Guided tour guide & visiting all the major Paris landmarks ✔️ 🤩
Eiffel Tower ✔️ 🌞
Painters square with handmade painting ✔️ 🖼️
Grocery shopping & checking out all the different foods✔️ 🛒
Ready for SO much more over the next week! ✔️🎉

05/11/2026

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mamas! 🌸 A special happy Mother’s Day to my Mama & the Grammy of Zaaz 💖 We couldn’t of done any of it without you 🫶🏽

05/04/2026

https://gofund.me/06534612a

“It is with heavy hearts that we share the sudden and tragic loss that has forever changed our family. A young girl has lost her father far too soon, and her world has been turned upside down in an instant.

Right now, our focus is on surrounding her with the love, care, and support she will need as she begins to navigate life without him. No child should have to experience this kind of loss, and while we cannot take away her pain, we can come together to help guide her forward with strength and stability.

This fundraiser has been created to support her in the months and years ahead. The funds will go toward counselling services to help her process and heal, as well as sports, activities, and positive outlets that will keep her engaged, uplifted, and connected to a sense of normalcy. These opportunities will play an important role in helping her grow, build confidence, and continue forward despite the challenges she now faces.

Her father loved her deeply and wanted nothing more than to see her happy, supported, and thriving. In honour of that love, we are committed to ensuring she has every opportunity to continue building a life filled with joy, growth, and possibility.

As a family, we are grieving a significant loss, but our greatest priority is standing beside her—lifting her up, protecting her spirit, and helping her carry forward in a way that would make her father proud.

Any support, whether through a donation or by sharing this page, will directly contribute to giving her the care, opportunities, and stability she deserves during this incredibly difficult time.

Thank you for helping us come together to support her future.“

04/29/2026

Another amazing year for Boogie the Bridge! ❤️ Thank you to all the volunteers & sponsors who help bring boogie to our community every year!

We got to help chalk the path with drawings & supportive phrases for the runners! 🌈

When your legs get tired, run with your heart 🫶🏽

04/24/2026

We are still To Be Determined BUT there are a couple things that are next that we do have the answers to now! 🐛

~ PARTIEZ! We love to celebrate with our community! We are passionate about continuing this but are working through the business side to figure out how exactly this looks & will hopefully be sharing in the near future. If you have party requests send me a message though & I would love to chat if we could meet your vision in your timeline before officially sharing full services! 🥳 Bounce houses will be no more though unfortunately! They are just too difficult with insurance but our other services will be similar to before!

~ Community connection! I am SO passionate about our community and especially our small business community! We have always done stop ins while supporting our small businesses/ nonprofits & we will continue to do this as well as post to bring awareness on our small businesses! Send me a message if you’re a small business owner that would like us to pop in for a video to support or even just hoping for an extra reach when having special happening with the community to share! 🫶🏽

~ Zaaz Home Ed 🐝🐞 Play-based learning is essential to childhood 🧠 If you’re still following along on this journey I’m positive play & connection are essential for you too! I will be sharing how I encourage play-based learning, play activities, regular fun kid & family activities, how we meet homeschool learning objectives, goal setting, entrepreneurship, crafts & a wide variety of exactly as it sounds, Zaaz Home Education! 🏡

~ Wellness 🌱 I’ll be sharing about our wellness journeys despite having chronic illnesses, encouraging wellness with kids, safety tips from a paramedic perspective, and sharing the natural products that I sell to support your wellness! 🍓

Even though we will no longer be a brick & mortar, we are still wanting to stay active and connected to the village we have built 💜

04/21/2026

I’m going to do a CliffNote for our big things happening these past 6 months as just like with Zaaz we’ve had a lot going on in our lives so below is our life update many have been requesting 💖

~ Taz was changed from methotrexate to Leflunomide for his rheumatoid arthritis due to side effects having too large of an impact on his daily living. Spent September- December with migraines, constant nausea, dizziness with exercise and joint pain. New med caused severe ear infection, beginnings of liver toxicity and gallstones. Arthritic meds stopped. Due to how things were handled by previous rheumatologist referred to new Rheumatoidology team at Children’s that we meet with this week! 🥳

~ I had a metal health leave due to multiple situations with 🚑 work but these are confidential. I returned to work which was an amazing return. I’m awaiting electrophysiology consults for replacing my pacemaker battery with possible change to a leadless pacemaker. A month ago I was taken off work again but this time due to medical from a TIA (mini stroke). This is all now undergoing investigation. 🫀 Since being off I’ve dived back in to online revenue streams and selling natural, gluten free products 🌱

~ My hubby, Josh fell off a 30 foot roof while working landing on his head with a miracle he didn’t have significant injuries. He was taken off work for a few months to undergo concussion therapy, physio & chiro. He is awaiting additional scan since for his lungs coming up soon.

~ Since things were going so smoothly our 8 month old puppy thought it a good idea to eat a Lug nut 🫣 Emergency surgery with no pet insurance was quite the hit last week. PSA the day you get a pup get the insurance 😬 We have a 6 grand lug nut now 😅

We’ve got a lot going on but we also have a lot of positive things happening in our lives everyday. We’re firm believers in happiness is in the journey not the destination and there’s always something you can do to have it be a good day so despite everything we are all doing good, individually and as a family. Just because there’s a lot happening doesn’t mean we have to let those situations impact us long term even if some days are harder than others 💜

04/19/2026

My video was too long to share as a post so will be sharing point form here & can view the full video in stories or instagrams rebuilding Zaaz highlight 💖

~ We left the previous location in negatives after not receiving our full deposit back, construction, moving, employee labor and storage fees.
~ The 14,175$ raised by our community 🥹 was gone mainly already by the above.
~ Prior to signing this lease we did a 2,000$ hazardous survey, lawyer fee to review the lease with amendments & again moving costs
~ We did talk to the city prior to signing the least about the change of usage and were told there wouldn’t be any major concerns with this change
~32 thousand deposit for the new location
~ Flooring, painting, professional artist for window painting, signage for bottom of these windows plus outside signage, drawings of building by graphic artist, electrical, plumbing, hydro/fortis (3,000/month), contractors to help set up and pony wall, new toys, kitchen equipment, play structure, decor, Telus, security, HVAC, and I’m sure I’m missing something 😅
~ We finally get a response from the city that the plans they have for the location are 30 years old so won’t be approving anything until we have an architect draw new plans. 6,000$ which would’ve been 20 if ended up doing full scope of work
~ Immediately the architect when walking through stated we had much larger issues for opening than just new drawings of the space which included:
Handicap washroom plus additional washrooms
Additional exit out of the building
Updated electrical room
& Fire suppression system.
All these were quoted by multiple business to be a minimum of 500,000$ which at this point an additional 5,000$ would’ve been difficult.
~ This is when we entered the legal side with legal fees
~ The legal process is now closed and will not be going to trial. We will not lose additionally financially but we are also not receiving anything returned for what was put into the building when unable to operate our business at this location

It’s not the happy ending we all were hoping for but we are beyond thankful for the community we have built & the core childhood memories together 💖❤️‍🩹