• Travel

    Five Fun Freebies in Las Vegas #Travel

    Wynn, Las Vegas Let’s face it. Las Vegas is luscious and decadent and garish and gorgeous all at once. It can be outrageously expensive, a taste of life outside the realm of the every day Canadian’s experience. And it’s very easy to get carried away at the slot machines, or the tables. But there’s no need to blow all your money in one day. There are plenty of freebies to be had and lot of fun sights to see that won’t have you paying for your trip all year long. My husband and I took a quick trip to Las…

  • Travel

    $50,000 Dreams With Royale #GoldenKitten

    My dream vacation                                            Source: google.com via Paula on Pinterest                                                           What would you do with $50 K? $50,000? My dream house will be big enough to house a home office. How cute is this? Source: houzz.com via Ezgi Gunyel on Pinterest These are a few of my dreams. With $50,000 I would…

  • Food

    Cooking With Kids: #CavendishFromtheFarm Potatoes

    Is there anyone on the planet that likes peeling potatoes? I don’t think so. Thank goodness for Cavendish From the Farm potatoes taking the work out of dinner. My kids and I love to cook. These days, when the weather is frigid and my time is at a premium I love to make soups and stews and healthy delicious meals that last for a couple of nights. Comfort food that warms you right up and wards off the chilly temperatures while boosting your body with vitamins. Potatoes are a great source of vitamins and I grew up eating potatoes with…

  • Food - Health

    Healthy Living: Align Probiotic Review

    Probiotics have been in the news a lot this past two years so I have updated this post to include a bit more information. Align Probiotic is one of the options on the market that claims to support digestive health. This post is my personal experience with the product. My loyal readers here know that I have some health issues, mainly digestive, directly related to Crohn’s disease. Crohn’s Disease is an inflammatory bowel disorder that effects the digestive tract the entire way through. How to manage life with Crohn’s Disease is a whole other post. It flares at any time…

  • infertility - Parenting

    A Fertility Pop Quiz For Ontario #OHIP4IVF #onpoli

    Shutterstock Image I purchased. This is a throw down. That’s right. This post is a challenge to all my readers. I want to know what you know, or understand, about fertility and infertility. So pop quiz. I will put the correct answers at the end of this post. I totally trust you my loyal readers to be honest and grade yourselves. For those of you who live in Ontario, I am extremely interested to know your answers, so please leave me a comment stating whether or not you live in Ontario. Thanks! By way of background – In 2009, the…

  • family

    Join us For Saving Strategies with Linked Moms Chat

    Linked Moms Chat tomorrow night is all about money and simple strategies for saving money. Join us at 8 p.m. EST. Wednesday Jan. 23rd. Are you a penny pincher? Skilled negotiator? Coupon clipper? Price matcher? Moms are some of the best savers around. We know that, so we want to talk to you about your strategies for saving money. And we have a few little tips of our own. Pop by to learn how we save big money on major purchases like mortgages, cars, banking and daily budgets.  This is a chat you can’t afford to miss. Join Margarita http://www.twitter.com/downshiftingPRO…

  • family

    Cousins – #WordlessWednesday #linky

    This is my daughter holding her cousin four years ago. Taiga is four now. We are anticipating a new cousin within the next two weeks. My brother and his wife are expecting their third baby. This is a Wordless Wednesday post. Wordless Wednesday is a linky and a photo meme. Leave a link and we will visit you too.

  • beauty products

    Tria Beauty Series: Post 2 Adding a Routine

    This is the Tria Beauty Home Laser Hair Removal device. I wrote about Tria last week and will continue to do so to demonstrate the results the product provides. Tria Beauty is a handheld unit that gives the same results you can get in a dermatologist’s office in your own home. So last week I set the device up and was impressed with the safety features and this week I have been all about getting into a routine so that I use the laser every day and will be better equipped to see results six or seven or eight weeks…