Have you ever taken a vacation over the holidays? Seeing family is amazing, and the holidays are my favourite time of the year BUT getting away to warm weather and having someone else do the cooking, cleaning and entertaining sometimes seems very appealing. One of the trends we see in the … [Read more...]
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Kath checking in here from a cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Italy. (I know! Can you believe it?) Anyway, my cruise companion and friend, Laura and I managed to tear ourselves away from the spa long enough to watch a movie in our stateroom. There is actually quite a good … [Read more...]
The Secret Life of Bees
I read this book in 2 days. Forty-eight wonderful hours of characters to fall in love with. I adore this type of book - character driven but with a point. This book is not without its heartbreak. The Secret Life of Bees takes place in South Carolina in 1964 during the heart of the Civil Rights … [Read more...]
Featured Mom Business: Room to Grow
Becoming a mom is a very rewarding and incredibly life changing event. It can also become a very isolating time, and that is just what Room to Grow founder’s Alisha Brignall and Shannon Kozak found after having their children in 2005. Shannon had just moved to Calgary from her home town of … [Read more...]
New Jeans or New Bod?
I spent the day yesterday pulling out all of our summer clothes and replacing them with winter gear. I washed all of the mittens, hats, and scarves. I had my kids try things on to see what needs to be purchased (surprisingly little despite huge growth spurts...their clothes must have been … [Read more...]
Gloom and Comfort
I am well in the middle of my autumnal blahs - at least, I hope it's the middle. It would be terrible to think that you're halfway through some grim thing and in reality, you're just standing on a crevice, looking down. But I think it's already peaked and is packing up its black bags and heading … [Read more...]
From the mouths of fairies…in training…
Thanks to our friends at Alliance Films and Sesame Workshop, I was able to take my little fairy-in-training to see her favorite fairy-in-training. please mom! no more pictures! I'm busy watching Abby in Wonderland. I got the chance to talk with Miss Abby Cadabby herself on Friday and got the … [Read more...]
Are You Living or Being Lived?
As everyone grows up, they develop a set of values: ways they interpret and respond to the world. For a few of us those values are something we create in ourselves, for most of us they are thrust upon us by our parents, friends, family and society at large. Most of the way we live our … [Read more...]
Eid: A Celebration of Food and Family
It seems like just moments ago that Ramadan began with all our intentions of piety and sacrifice. The month went by quickly. My kids seemed to be more into it this year, and I'm trying my best to expose them to the traditions and rituals I grew up with. More than anything, … [Read more...]
Suri Walks! and Tom steals my turtleneck!
see? MY turtleneck! how very many of you, Tom Cruise! … [Read more...]
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