I was first introduced to Lori McGrath and her blog; The Write Mama when she became one of VancouverMom.ca’s Top 30 bloggers for 2012. We bumped into each other at a PR event later on I really enjoyed chatting with her. She is a kind warm woman and her open style of writing on […]
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TELUS & Free the Children: Give Where You Live
My mom actually worked for TELUS during my teen and adult years, so I have always been aware of how community driven TELUS truly is. It is not all about telephones and the internet. TELUS encourages community involvement within it employees TELUS and as a company. This was why I was honoured to be asked to check […]
The $ and Sense of Fertility in BC
I have been pregnant four times. Each time I got pregnant was when we pretty much decided we wanted to. We were the lucky ones. I am 43 now and with three happy vibrant children can safely (?) say I am done. I have my family. Yes, we should be a family of 6 not […]
Speaking our Minds
Just when I am ready to quit blogging, give up social media and embrace my poor ass momness full time, something interesting shows up because of it. No, no more amazing Disney Cruises, but something much more symptomatic of the power of moms on social media. I got asked to be part of a round […]
Harrison Hot Springs Resort – Mini Vacation
Getting an invite to head up to Harrison Hot Springs Resort on the last couple of day of Spring Break was almost too perfect. It became perfect when we were told it was a pet friendly hotel and we were more than welcome to bring our pup, Lily. When the clouds cleared and the sun […]
Shining in Her Sun Day Best
On Canada Day, the weather was a bit weird and so as usual, I packed for everything and told the kids to be prepared. Of course there were CANADA duds…but Caity picked this. That is the Sun Day Afternoons Play Hat available from Mountain Baby. It did not leave her head the entire day. The […]
Sunshine and Unicorns…
as my kids like to say.. So Saturday was a gorgeous and sunny day. Like A lot of Loves, I was beyond giddy about the planned lunch/tweetup being that not only was my mom watching the two older kids, but my husband said he would tag along! Like Marilyn the prospect of getting out […]
Crunchy Gets All Political
…on yo ass. Heh. So yeah..I haven’t had a chance to REALLY focus on the BC Liberals latest Throne Speech, or appalling deficit, the INSANE HST or this….but thank goodness for Twitter right? According to the CBC online, the BC Lib’s have decided that Kindergarten in 2010 will be full time. I am sure the […]
First Day of Grade One
‘cept it wasn’t. Because they had to go to their old Kindergarten class and teacher and then they just drew pictures and read for an hour and that was it. Tomorrow, they MIGHT have a class and teacher to go to. Might. I really don’t get how they run schools here at all. I don’t […]