Finding the right ‘snack’ to gather your favorite dip can be a long and disappointing search. I tried my first pack of Twistos without much hope, and was pleasantly surprised. Twistos® Baked Snack Crackers are great on their own too. They make a great non chip or cookie snack, with lovely savory flavours like Asiago (my […]
Get Your Hummus & Garlic Cravings Satisfied: Sabra Giveaway
So April is apparently Garlic Month. I did not know this. I love garlic. Once in LA I was taken to an all garlic restaurant. I think I could have married it. Thank goodness for brands like Sabra and their amazing dips, including their GARLIC Hummus that tastes better than anything I could make myself. […]
Left-Boob Drama
Being that my body is a creaking, stiff, overweight disaster area, you would think I would be rushing to see my GP to discover the root of all the ‘ugh.’ But I don’t go. Hardly. And because people take one look at the is harassed looking middle aged woman with three kids they assume I […]
Have You Tried iOGO’s Yogurt Pouches?
We eat a lot of yogurt products in this family and the kids are already big fans of many of the products from iOGO. Tara loves the ‘nano’ products as they are perfect for her lunch box. Despite the yogurt love, I was a tad dubious about how MUCH Yogurt we could consume and […]
Jungle Book Pre-Screening Giveaway for Vancouver
Look for the bare necessities The simple bare necessities Forget about your worries and your strife I mean the bare necessities Old mother nature’s recipes That bring the bare necessities of life (Jungle Book, 1967) I can’t believe that movie came out two years before I was born. It was an absolute favourite and introduced […]
Where Did We Go Wrong? Back in the Dark Ages of Gender Equality
I was wondering when someone else would start to notice this trend. Thanks, Erica Ehm for this. As a mother of three extremely plugged-in kids, I see the type of content that fills their feeds on YouTube, Instagram and all the other tween and teen social media apps. A quick look around the internet gives […]
Still Don’t Like Spring Break
It’s week two of an insanely long Spring Break – seriously, who thought to tie in EASTER LONG WEEKEND in with the break!!?? Let’s also not talk about the fact that I have bought NOTHING for the kids Easter yet as every day I rush home to relieve whoever is in charge. This is also […]
My Mini Me’s Have Minds of Their Own
When it comes to parenting, we are making so much shit up on the fly, I don’t know how any of us survive. What I find interesting is how we base so much of our parenting handbook on how WE were raised. We spend a lot of time comparing our childhoods to the one’s we […]
Spring Forward with Duracell – Giveaway
Due to the insane amount of electronics in this house, we go through batteries a lot. This means we are heavy users of rechargeables and keep an army of batteries rotating through THREE chargers. We should have stock. Ironically, the one thing we don’t use batteries in is our smoke detector. It is plugged […]