• Giveaways

    Cheerios Mini-Milestones Contest and Giveaway

    October 19, 2010 - By 

     Image courtesy of Wiki free images  We are a big Cheerios family. (No, I’m not talking about the Glee Cheerleaders) Love them for all ages and sizes of people. We like original Cheerios and Apple Cinnamon and Multi-Grain, and of course Honey Nut. We have not been without a box of Cheerios ever since darling youngest daughter was about eight months old. Which brings me to my milestone moment. I still remember giving my oldest daughter her first solid food. The first real solid thing I ever gave her was a Cheerio. No, seriously! Another Mommy friend Lisa…

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    Monday Mingle: Vlogging Tips

    October 18, 2010 - By 

    Hi there, Monday morning again and I am with laryngitis. Hence the lovely voice quality here. Anyways don’t forget to leave your comments here and have a great week. This is a meme started by Jennifer at Eighty MPH Mom. Join in and have some fun.

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    My favourite children’s movies of the year

    October 16, 2010 - By 

    My favourite children’s movies of the year are two wildly different stories: one animated and one based upon a best-selling children’s author from the time I was little. These ones are out just in time to buy for Christmas and if I had to choose two to give as gifts these would be the ones. Toy Story 3 was fine as far as movies go, but I found there to be some scary parts for my children and some toys were much too mean-spirited for me. Also a children’s movie with humour that is more aimed at adults than children…

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    Momnesia

    October 13, 2010 - By 

      I never looked this exhausted before I had kids.   We all have them – those crazed exhausted Mommy moments in which we do something so incredibly forgetful it can only be described as Momnesia. I once knew a Mom who went to work with mismatched shoes. I always secretly thought that was a ploy to make her look like she was busier than the rest of us lowly reporters. But now I know it happens. Momnesia. A lady I know who is very smart and successful, mom of two little girls and a professor, once missed…

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    Baby Prodigy: Review and Giveaway

    October 7, 2010 - By 

     When my oldest daughter was a toddler we loved to sit with the Baby Einstein series of videos, and later DVDs, and watch as new words and worlds came to life for half an hour or so each morning. And if I needed 20 minutes to throw myself together I knew I could pop the video on and she could safely watch from her activity centre. Now there are a few different baby DVDs on the market. Back then, there was really only the one option. My oldest child is now nine but she fondly remembers the cute videos and was oddly thrilled…

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    Do You Know Who I Am?: Blogging and Entitlement

    October 5, 2010 - By 

    In a digital world, bloggers have become a strange new breed of celebrity. Many are Moms, forging and shaping opinion, writing the future of media. They are on line columnists, brand ambassadors, reviewers, multi-media managers, content providers, publishers, SEO experts, social media strategists and tech experts. They are explorers, pure and simple. Some powerful females have carved out a home and grown an almost cult-like following through their blogs. The Bloggess has 67,000 followers on Twitter alone, not to mention the legions who read her on various other sites. Dooce got a book deal and became a legend. Type A Mom Kelby…

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    Asheville, North Carolina: Colourful and One of a Kind

    October 4, 2010 - By 

     The home of famous American author Thomas Wolfe Asheville is a friendly, warm southern state filled with colourful stories, great restaurants and even more colourful characters. On arriving in Asheville, North Carolina, I encountered a group of musicians picking up their instruments from the baggage carousel. That’s not something you see every day in London, Ontario where we try hard to hide our artsy secret lives beneath business suits or day jobs. Cab driver Tom Grandy confirms Asheville is a liberal, artistic, outdoorsy, community surrounded by states that are much less liberal in their politics. In fact located between mountain ranges the area is…

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    Dear Delta: Not Cleared for Take Off

    October 4, 2010 - By 

    Delta picture courtesy of Wikimedia It was my first time flying Delta last week en route to a Mommy blogger conference known as Type A Mom in Asheville, North Carolina. I have flown many places, with family, with my spouse and simply by myself. And I have flown many airlines, some of the Canadian ones that people are so fond of ridiculing publicly. But I have got to say that Delta, now the largest airline in the world in terms of passenger traffic, took the cake. And not in a good way. First off my flight at 6:15 a.m. out of…

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    Monday Mingle from Asheville

    September 27, 2010 - By 

    Well this week I am joining the Monday Mingle from Asheville’s Type A Mom Conference. Hope you all enjoyed the week and have a safe and happy one coming up. This Mingle was created by Jennifer at EightyMPHMom.com/So the way it works is you link up with the little mingle button on the side, visit Jennifer Regan’s blog. Record a vlog. Link up on her site and visit the other vloggers. This is a great way to grow as a blogger and to gain experience vlogging and maybe make a few friends too. According to a whole techie girl panel here…