You pull your clothes out of the drier, and immediately you know it: a sock has gone missing. Grrrr! To me there's nothing more frustrating than having the order of the sock drawer thrown into disarray by all of these stray socks that keep turning up without their mates. And let me tell you that … [Read more...]

One of my favourite things is the smell of clean, soft laundry straight off the line or out of the dryer. The only problem is; I have sensitive skin. So does my son. In fact, he has very sensitive skin and suffers from frequent outbreaks of eczema. When he was a baby, we tried many, many different … [Read more...]

Lately my office has felt a bit like a ghost town...according to Human Resources at least 10% of our workforce has been away sick in the last two weeks. In a way, I think it represents a positive trend: people are clearly no longer dragging themselves into work with terrible colds, thank goodness. … [Read more...]

My motto is: be prepared! And when you have teenagers in your home, you'd better be prepared for parties. And when you have parties in your home, you'd better be prepared for stains. Last Saturday (you know, October 31st?) my son hosted a Hallowe'en party for a whole bunch of his friends from … [Read more...]

I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I love to go WILD decorating my home for all the different holidays, but Hallowe'en is - hands down - my favourite. Oh, our house is the one that all the neighbourhood kids want to come to; the one the traffic jams form in front of because all the cars … [Read more...]