If you've seen How to Be a Vancouverite, or if you are one, or if you know any of us, you know how uniquely weird we can be. We effing love kale, and it's a joke how much that isn't a joke. If you've ever been here or moved here or tried to make friends outside of work or school, maybe you know how … [Read more...]
CLOSED: The Big Itch: Summering at the Cottage Contest
What better way to while away the days of summer than by relaxing at the cottage. Many of our best memories were spent at the cottages of friends and family. We want you to share these memories with us. Tell us your favourite stories spent up at the cottage with your … [Read more...]
My Top Five Favourite Craft Blogs (for softies)
I love crafts. I do all kinds of crafts: knitting, sewing, scrapbooking, and I even paint and draw (when I can find enough time). And when I'm not actually making crafts, I love to read about other people's crafts. Especially when those crafts involve making softies. Which I have tried my hand at, … [Read more...]
Featured Mom Business: Bugalug
Canadian Designer Takes the Frustration out of the Morning “do” dilemma.The hair gods can be cruel to parents. Each morning as they struggle to push back bangs or finagle a finicky fly away strand into a barrette, the inevitable transpires – that stubborn piece of hair slips out of the clip! … [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...]
Fruitsational!
When I got this menu plan from the nice people over at Motts, it just seemed like a fun thing to try with my kids, not to mention a potentially time-saving solution to the school-lunch mad rush we go through daily. So I put the idea to my eight year-old daughter: if I get this stuff and make these … [Read more...]
Featured Mom Business: ECHOage.com
ECHOage.com is an online system that easily enables children to celebrate giving at the time of their birthday. Through the ONE GIFT, ONE CAUSE solution children everywhere are contributing to society, the environment and each other. ECHOage is easy to use and convenient for mothers. The site … [Read more...]
When Life Stands Still for Cancer
Well, it has happened. You look at the stats and you know that you are fooling yourself if you think it won't. And you are truly very lucky if it doesn't. Yes, The Big "C" has hit our family. So far, we are very lucky. But, no matter what, life is changing course and my perspective has … [Read more...]
School Money Management
It is shocking that kids today can get all the way to university without taking any course on personal financial management...in fact, if it's not elected in university, it can be avoided completely. I'm not talking about a high school economics course, I'm referring to real life, how to … [Read more...]
I get by with a little help from my friends.
Thank you. Thank you each and every one of you who commented, called, or emailed after I posted about the death of my dear old pal. I felt so much better knowing that others had gone through this and I wasn't really evil despite my eldest child's claims. We are reminded of her often when we see a … [Read more...]