• Technology

    Utales Children’s EBooks App Review

    December 7, 2011 - By 

    Click on link below for video and more information about Utales http://player.vimeo.com/video/29233431?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0 UTales is my new favourite multi-purpose, educational site for Moms, Dads and growing readers. There are many fantastic resources here on UTales, described as a world of picture books for kids. Above, you can see just a few of the amazing digital picture books for children, running all the way upto age nine. The greatest concentration of books here is the preschool category. But there are many sweet, colourful and original tales. My youngest daughter, myself and even my oldest at 10, have been loving this app for…

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    Holiday Festival On Ice

    December 5, 2011 - By 

    Blame it on the rain, but I have truly had trouble getting in the Christmas mode this year. Shopping. Meh. Christmas tree. Meh. Lights. Meh. Too overwhelmed by life this year to care.  At least until Sunday. This week I won two passes to see Holiday Festival on Ice, a skating show that was being held at the Kitchener Auditorium, a spot I haven’t been back to in years, since working in town over a decade ago. Anyways, the show was fabulous, featuring gold medal winners David Pelletier and Jamie Sale, and the incredible and very famous Kurt Browning, who…

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    Ho Ho Hold the Sales for Me! Dec. 2 Roundup Friday Finds

    December 3, 2011 - By 

    Well, almost didn’t think I’d have time to post this, there is so much going on this weekend. Whew! Craft Show at Western Fair. Holiday on Ice is at the Kitchener Auditorium. Yay! I won tickets to see this show so I can’t wait.Also London Moms Christmas Party is at Tweedsmuir on Sunday. 4 p.m. Shoppers Drug Mart has their Cash Your Points in Event! Get your presents now! Oh and thankfully it appears that coffee is finally on sale at Sobeys! Maxwell House. No Frills $1, $2, $3 sale – sweet deals like Peanut butter for $2.

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    Zero Tolerance For Bullying Not Good Enough

    December 1, 2011 - By 

    My daughter Payton. Both my kids have at one time or another been bullied. One of my children could also easily be perceived as a bully. She is not, but she has special needs and is frequently mishandled, undersupervised and left to handle situations she cannot because of her disability. My heart breaks when I read of kids who have ended their lives because of bullying. This is tragic every time and I can see too easily how a child could feel that there is nothing good in the world when school is not a safe place. I believe bullying…

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    KinderMoments #KinderMom

    November 30, 2011 - By 

    My KinderMoments is a fabulous Facebook app you can have a bit of fun with while saving your special photos of your children. I don’t know about you, but frankly the photos of my kids over the past ten years are so plentiful that I am forever looking for fun ways to change them up, or use them, frame or scrapbook them. KinderMoments is a great way for me to share our recent celebrations and family moments with the other important people in our lives. KinderMoments facebook app is easy to use and there are several frames to choose from.…

  • Parenting

    Last Chance Giveaways #adoption My Adoption Month – Giveaway Roundup

    November 29, 2011 - By 

    For the Month of November I have had a few beautiful adoption themed giveaways. There aren’t many entries so your chances of winning are pretty good. There is a beautiful necklace donated by Deborah Brennan. It says Adoption  is Love and it is truly gorgeous. Deborah is an adoptive parent herself and the author of Labours of Love, a Canadian book about adoption. https://www.thriftymommastips.com/?p=1072 Click on the above link and that will take you to the post (part 3) so that you can enter. The entry is simple – all you need to do is follow the instructions. I think…

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    National Adoption Awareness Month Series – Our Story Part 4

    November 28, 2011 - By 

    A Tale of Two Adoptions (This is us holding Ainsley for the first time.) It was Christmas every morning for the first two years of life with our new baby. I sprang out of bed each day to see Payton. She woke up smiling and sometimes singing. And she was a much needed ray of sunshine. I raced to the closet or the bureau of drawers to choose her outfits and loved every second of that. She was delightful and quick and bright and alert and engaging. From the time she was two she was on the go and she…

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    Dog Tales

    November 25, 2011 - By 

    This is my Ainsley. She struggles with a lot of stuff, reading especially. And noises and information and sensory overload. But reading has been a particular source of frustration lately. She is well behind her peers in this skill. And it’s not for lack of trying. She has been sitting and holding books and we have been reading them with her from the time she was an infant. From Books for Babies to phonics to Oxford Learning Centre, we have tried it all. But still decoding language on the page has been difficult for her. She has special needs, a diagnosis of…

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    A New Twitter Hop

    November 24, 2011 - By 

    http://thislilpiglet.net/category/twitter-pop-hop/ This is a new twitter hop hosted by my on line friends Tales of a Ranting Ginger and Stacie from This Lil Piglet. I like these gals quite a bit and they have been working hard here to build their blogs and businesses, so I want to show them some love. This is a new hop, as I mentioned to run every Wednesday. The rules are follow the first two hosts and then follow the other tweeple on the list. Link upo your twitter handle and make some new friends. Today I met a few new people already and…

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    November 22, 2011 - By 

    Well, this is one sale I wish I didn’t miss. We don’t have Black Friday up here in Canada. Just once I would love to say that I had made it to the Black Friday sales events. For the experience. If you have been leave me a comment here about the best deal you ever landed on Black Friday. The good news these days is that we don’t need to leave the house to get some of the deals going around right now for Black Friday. Also geography can be pretty irrelevant for shoppers with ecommerce being such a great…