She likes to play with her friends, take care of her younger siblings, meet new people, and is always eager to learn new English words. Maria goes to the school in the community that Absolute helps to teach English at, and everywhere Rose turned this past year, little Maria seemed to be there, hauling her […]

I should have been more specific and I should have considered the question from their point of view. In hindsight, it’s really funny how quirky life is sometimes.
We have just completed a really cool building project in Aguas Negra, Dominican Republic. It was with a Christmas Hero Holiday group, and together with the help of […]

Love is a word we use so often in the English language that we sometimes forget the power and force behind what it means to truly love. I love chocolate, but I also love my husband. I love sunshine but I also love my family. In our current culture, people fall in and out of […]

My mom used to tell me that I can always choose my friends, but I can’t choose my family. Usually this was in response to my complaint about something said ‘family’ did, but nevertheless, it is a very true statement. There is something about the love of a family that is more about commitment than […]

I currently live really close to the beach. The surfing beach, actually. Vaden and I are living in Dominican Republic as we wait and hope to bring our 5 year old adopted daughter home to Canada. I keep telling myself I want to get into surfing, because it just seems to somehow up your cool […]

I know Barbie gets a bad rap. I know she can be seen as a symbol of all that is wrong with our perceptions of how women should look and act. Like the multi-billion toy industry that North Americans are enslaved to, she is often over-priced and kind of ridiculous. However, this week, I saw […]

Light is made up of both waves and particles and its incomprehensible speed is what the basic measurement of distance is based on. It’s all around us and it is way more than what it seems. When we look at the world, science has proven that it’s not actually the objects that […]

Consistency is sometimes a value that is lost in our society. I think it could be better referred to as “keeping your word”. We make promises very lightly: we say we will get together with an old friend when we may not actually intend to, we say we will show up at an event just […]

When Danielle was seven, she believed she could fly. Throwing herself into the air with all limbs flailing, she would inevitably always land with a thud, leaving bruised knees and elbows. In her own words, she described it as, “The feeling that even for just one ‘Mississippi’ I could be surrounded by nothing but the […]

When Absolute decides to build a house for a family through our Hero Holiday program, there are two things we need to make it happen:

someone who knows what they are doing
someone who is willing to learn how to be a part of making it happen

And then, after you have secured those two items, jump in […]