Jill wrote in:Just happened upon your blog and SO glad you exist! I am often online searching for things that I can never find. Right now...I want matching T-shirts for my DH and DS for Valentine's Day - catch: they have to be within Canada. I've had an enormous amount of stress ordering … [Read more...]

This weekend I had to come to terms with the fact that my baby is going to have to go to daycare when I return to work.  BIG SIGH.  I'm not exactly in the best "work-at-home" profession.  I only wish I could Skype into my Grade 5 classroom and teach in my pjs...although I'm sure "SIT … [Read more...]

A few weeks ago, I posted my first entry regarding The Man-ual.  In this post, I pledged to de-bunk many of the myths that men either perpetuate or hide behind for personal benefit.  My first entry on this topic was about the crass locker room banter, which many believe is a constant but … [Read more...]

I'm a food sales rep. (when I'm Not So Supermom), and this means during the day I'm visiting food retailers and grocery shops, 5 days a week. Which means at this time of year, I look at chocolates, red and white packaging, cute cinnamon hearts, more chocolate etc. All this marketing...is WORKING. I … [Read more...]

Sometimes, I'll meet someone whom I find intimidating.  It can be someone I work with, perhaps, who has a ton of experience and industry knowledge.  It may be someone I meet at a party, who has interesting stories to tell whereas mine aren't so great.  But, I've never really bumped … [Read more...]

Five years ago, while on vacation at a time share in Calabogie, Ontario, I started to chat with two women. We all had small kids, we were all on vacation and we were all on the beach tyring to watch the kids!! Naturally we started to ask questions: "how old are your kids" "where are you … [Read more...]

Ali wears: shirt: anthropologie jeans: Joe's (honey curvy. size 25, baby! woo! thanks, stomach flu!) shoes: blowfish (FLATS! I never wear flats!) headband: Emily's (shh. don't tell!) … [Read more...]