Since I can’t bring you all on my AMAZING Disney Cruise over Mothers Day – the kind people at Baby Gourmet have offered to help share the fun and love. Baby Gourmet makes yummy ORGANIC and HEALTHY baby food. Even the packaging is fun, BPA free and gives the food a shelf life of up to […]
When is it MY TURN!!!??
Why I hate rainy days. Why I hate rainy days on long weekends where the adults are feeling a tad under the weather and don’t have it in us to do the whole ‘whee Easter is fun thing.’ Why I hate video games. YESSSS admitted, video games CAN be great babysitters when I have important […]
Volunteers Needed For Champlain Heights Playground
After a lengthy and extensive community-build playground project application and review process with KaBOOM. Through the generous efforts of KaBOOM and our funding partner, Foresters, I am please to hear that Champlain Heights Community School has been chosen for the site of a new playground. The playground will be built on Saturday, July 9, 2011. […]
Would You Hire A Male Babysitter?
Amy van Weelderen is the great mind behind Lullaby League. The Lullaby League is not a nanny or placement service. It is a way for parents to meet and interview university and college students for babysitting jobs. At each mixer moms and dads have a dozen or so 3 to 4 minute “mini interviews” with […]
Future Friendly with Kathy Buckworth
A recent survey conducted by the Natural Marketing Institute on behalf of P&G’s Future Friendly program found that 69 per cent of Canadian moms care about protecting the environment, versus only 45 per cent of moms in the U.S. and 48 per cent of moms in the U.K. With many (53%) Canadian moms buying as […]
Big Business Sees the Power of the ‘Mom Blogger’
Mom Blogging is the ultimate in networking and community building. Corporations, and PR companies saw this rather quickly and swooped down. Thus the mom ‘review’ blogger was born. I am currently working with a PR firm that’s slogan is ‘Influencing the Influencers.’ That is what it is all about. Mom bloggers and review bloggers have networks […]
When You Wish Upon A Star
My childhood was spent mostly as the daughter of a single parent who did everything she could to make sure I never felt that I was getting less or doing less than any other child. For the the ups and down of my childhood, I have really good memories all thanks to my mom. One […]
Life is a Special Occasion: Hallmark
I was always a big card buyer…for all the right occasions. This was a habit learned from my mom. I will admit that the internet and things like Facebook and ‘e-cards’ have made me a bit lazier nowadays and I tend to like the kids to MAKE cards too. But. Hallmark has always been my […]
Biohazards
I won’t lie….the snot issue with Tara is becoming a problem. Her nose has not stopped streaming in days. It is truly horrific. There isn’t enough disinfectant in the world to clean the trail of germs she leaves around the house. Needless to say, we are all waiting to get sick. Adam seems to be […]





