Hockey season is in full swing and I've been looking for new ways to keep the two younger kids occupied while Cam takes to the ice and Sean stands behind the bench.I think I have found just the thing. We put 2 of their favourite things together: Treehouse TV and the iPad and voila! … [Read more...]
Keep Your Mittens on Your Kittens
Brrrrrr...the expected high for today is 0 degrees with the windchill. That means that this morning as we ran around the house (after a long weekend the morning rush is particularly frantic), kids started asking for winter jackets, hats and mittens. I tracked down the jackets and various hats, but … [Read more...]
Disasters! Laundry’s Biggest Challenges – How to deal with the biggest & toughest stains
With 10 people in my family I do a lot of laundry and it makes me laugh when friends say to me "Today is laundry day." Laundry day? I don't have such a day, I have laundry life and because of this I have had my share of numerous laundry disasters. Have you ever washed a diaper? Not the cloth … [Read more...]
Wee People Need Books, Too.
A few sweet new board books should take care of any new-book needs you may have after reading that old favourite yet again! Rokko BitsyPaola OpalSimply Read BooksMany of you will recognize the style of Paola Opal's books at once from the popular Saffy (the giraffe), Ollie (the elephant), and … [Read more...]
Treehouse + iPad = One Awesome Contest
Hockey season is in full swing and I've been looking for new ways to keep the two younger kids occupied while Cam takes to the ice and Sean stands behind the bench.I think I have found just the thing. We put 2 of their favourite things together: Treehouse TV and the iPad and voila! … [Read more...]
House Party!
Tupperware. Norwex. Mary Kay. Pampered Chef. Epicure. Partylite. Arbonne. Avon. These are all products that carry out business through a little machine known as the Home Party: you get invited to one, you go and drink some bad coffee, you listen to a spiel, you feel guilted into buying … [Read more...]
Vintage Mayhem
Jack Gantos has been writing funny books about boys and the crazy things they get up to for some time now - his Joey Pigza series about a boy with ADHD being his best-known work. He's also written before about his own life, in an autobiographical look at the end of his own youth, which he spent in … [Read more...]
Urban Kid Closet – November 18th, 2011
Sale shopping is my favourite. Especially for kid clothes, because c'mon - at the rate they grow, they require almost an entirely new wardrobe every six months. These kids have no cousins, so the hand-me-downs tend to be few. That's really okay... but ch-ching!! I peruse the sales sections of the … [Read more...]
So Long Reeg!
A few months ago I had to write a 'So Long Meredith' blog when my girl Meredith Viera left the Today Show and today...it's Regis Philbin.I have a secret dream (well not so secret now) to be a morning show host. You know - the next Dina or Meredith or Ann Curry. But the seat that I … [Read more...]
“I don’t wanna go to school…”
So this post is not about the common "school-aroo-stay-home-is" (thanks Mom, for the decidedly wacko label for it!) that I and my sisters occasionally suffered from as kids. This is not the, "gee, I really don't feel like it today so I'll stick the thermometer in my hot oatmeal" shenanigans that all … [Read more...]
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