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    Cora’s

    August 10, 2010 - By 

    We finally had a chance to celebrate summer holidays with a brunch at Cora’s, something my niner has been asking for well about three or four months now. It was my second time there, at the breakfast place, with two locations now in London. Both times I wasn’t disappointed. The menu is exclusively crepes and waffles and bacon and eggs and breakfast foods. But as you can see here (to the left) this isn’t your average breakfast spot. The waffles my daughter chose were flavoured with cinnamon, covered in fresh fruit and drizzled with icing sugar. Yummy and also from…

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    My Answers to Lisa the Party Mommy at YummyMummyClub

    August 10, 2010 - By 

    1. Did you attend Blogher10? No. Dammit! I was actually a bit afraid. The swag frenzy and scary anecdotes from last year’s Blogher made me think umm.. nope I’ll try Type A Mom Con for my first conference. Thanks. 2. Are you attending BlissdomCanada this fall? I am crossing fingers and toes and approaching sponsors right now so I don’t need to remortgage house just to go. That would be frowned on by my husband. 3. When are you at your blogging best –  I guess night. Here it is 10 p.m. again and I am bloggy baby. 4. How many…

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    Disney’s Geppetto and Son

    August 7, 2010 - By 

    Once again the Original Kids Theatre Company brings a magical performance to life and a clever commentary on parenthood. This weekend is the last chance to catch Disney’s Geppetto and Sons at the Rotary Reading Garden downtown London. It is a funny take on Pinnocchio and a great family performance. We caught this one last night. Bring blankets or chairs. It is pay as you go and runs through tomorrow. The performance lasts about one hour or slightly longer. The ensemble here works very well together. Musical numbers are dazzling. Tonight and tomorrow a.m are the last chances to see…

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    Thursday Western Fair Thank You

    August 5, 2010 - By 

    Thursday is a happy day here. We were part of the outcry that challenged Western Fair to change their policy and last night they admitted they had made a mistake. That is, in my opinion, a cause to celebrate. What was at issue: the changes to fair pricing that meant disabled people and their attendant workers were going to be charged admission. For us here that meant that Ainsley, 6, with special needs would be charged admission and so would any support worker or attendant care worker we sent to the fair with her. That policy throughout the city is…

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    Western Fair Revisited

    August 4, 2010 - By 

    Well, this is not the way I intended my Wednesday morning to go, but when it all went sideways I went with it and lo and behold look where it led. Once again enraged by Western Fair’s staunch position that it is too late to change their decision to charged disabled people and their attendants admission to the Fair this year, I headed to the computer to compose more letters and more emails. My children amused themselves with Sesame Street. Then they appeared to ask what Mom was doing. I said I am busy writing letters to Western Fair and…

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    Western Fair and Disabled Rights

    July 31, 2010 - By 

    Dear Western Fair Board of Governors:      I am writing to challenge you to spend a day as a disabled person in this city. Perhaps you could even accompany one as an attendant for a day and document the extra costs this incurs. I am the parent of a child with a non visible disability. She needs help accessing many city programs and, if I am not with her, she requires a person hired by us, a support worker paid to help her take part in programs that other children in London can often easily take part in. In this…

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    Kid’s Photo Contest

    July 26, 2010 - By 

    Calling All Kids!! Calling All Kids who Love taking pictures! It’s not too late to enter this Tourism London Contest. In fact I have a couple of kids in this house who will send their fun pics off to the contest to show what it is they love about London. Could be Storybook Garden, the International Children’s Festival or Ribfest. Maybe even skating at Victoria Park on New Year’s Eve. There is an awful lot to love about our city. The prizes are pretty great thanks to Black’s Cameras. I found out about this one from Evelyn over at Tourism London…

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    UnderWAY and Smart For Life – Giveaway!!

    July 22, 2010 - By 

    I am not the world’s biggest fan of diets. I was somewhat weight obsessed in my teenage years and had a mother who was perpetually on the latest “fad diet.” Yoyo dieting was the norm, as our weathered old Kodak pictures, now yellowing around the edges, will attest. I threw my scale out when I was about 23, so let’s just say that was a few years ago. I prefer to be happy and healthy. When I became a Mom to two girls, well I knew they would never catch me standing in front of a mirror asking (cue whiny nasal tone)…

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    Ripley’s Museum – Niagara Falls

    July 21, 2010 - By 

    Where can you read about the tallest man ever recorded to have lived? Where can you see the biggest prehistoric shark teeth? Where can you spy a model of the chair a man flew threw the air in a la the movie Up!? A portrait made from dryer lint? Replicas of the strangest grave stones ever and the weird rhymes engraved on them? Why Ripley’s __ Believe it or Not! Museum, of course, in Niagara Falls. Located right on the main strip of crazy spectacles dubbed Clifton Hill in the downtown Falls area, this museum can’t be missed. The outside is an optical…