• family - parenting

    Monster Jam 2015 at Budweiser Gardens #MyMonsterJam

    This is a guest post by contributor Tabitha Pye This past Saturday I had the great pleasure to take my kids to see Monster Jam 2015 in London at Budweiser Gardens and it was a blast! It was loud, it was exciting, it was tense and I actually “sort of” understood what was going on. Things started off a little slow and I wasn’t sure what was going on, but things quickly escalated and got interesting as the newest member to the Canadian team overshot the mark and flipped his truck! After that the show was just as exciting as…

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    Easy DIY Shea Butter Anti-Frizz Balm

    Curly haired girls out there raise your hands!! I am a curly haired girl. I have one daughter with super curly hair too and where there is curly hair there is also tangled frizzy hair sometimes too. So what can you do about that? Well this Easy DIY Shea Butter Anti-Frizz Balm can help. Shea Butter Anti-Frizz Balm – For Frizzy Hair Honestly my youngest daughter and I are always on the prowl for new products that help moisturize our hair, while also detangling and helping hair look good and stay in great condition. This year, which seems to be…

  • family - Food

    Guinness Inspired Recipes

    Guinness Inspired Recipes can make you feel like you are visiting Ireland this March when you dig into hearty broth or a scrumptious chocolate treat. You need to get your hands on some of these great ingredients and try some of these Guinness inspired Recipes. Surprisingly the addition of something as simple as a bit of beer can elevate a simple recipe onto an entirely different level. Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day I thought readers here might enjoy some unique Guinness Inspired recipes. These, I am warning you now, are not recipes I would share with my kids. These might…

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    Best Friend Sisters #WordlessWednesday

    This rarely happens anymore. They grow their own ways once they hit a certain age. Occasionally we come back together and circle round during summer months, or family vacations. This was unexpected the other day on the way to school. I had to take a picture. And yes it’s dark out these mornings. This is my Wordless Wednesday for the week.  

  • active family travel - family - parenting - Travel

    Six Cruise Hidden Extras

    Don’t get caught with cruise hidden extras!! I consider myself an educated traveller. We research before we travel and we compare prices and we try always to get the best deal for our family budget. But I didn’t anticipate some of these cruise hidden extras, so even seasoned travel experts miss some things. I read reviews and I read blogs and I ask friends about their travel experiences before I book. Sometimes I find the best possible travel deal and then I take that to an agent to have her double check I am not missing anything and I always…

  • beauty products - family - family travel - Health

    Cute Affordable Glasses OnLine at Glasses Shop

    I can’t seem to stock enough sunglasses around here. First of all this is a house largely full of girls. Second of all, this is a house where apparently all the girls think what’s mine is also theirs and so on. If you live with tweens or teens, you probably know what I mean. Anyways, these cute fashionable and affordable sunglasses arrived a few days ago from GlassesShop.com and so I am happily restocked with sunglasses again. I’ m reasonably certain I can keep these ones safe until summer, but that said I might need to lock them away until…

  • adoption and tweens - family - Health - parenting - Parenting

    Why I am Speaking Martian Again: FASD Looks Like This and I am Still Proud to be a Health and Special Needs Blogger

    It’s been an interesting week here, in which several signs have made me realize again what I am supposed to be writing about. It’s funny how sometimes you, as a blogger, get tunnel vision watching stats and striving for growth and page views and SEO. These are the tools of the trade and we all get really great at understanding them. We watch our posts for engagement and comments and we tick them off and file them away with headings like: improved or needs improvement, or blogging goals for the year. We worry on a day when the stats dive and…

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    Cute and Festive St. Patrick’s Day Gifts

        It’s soon going to be time for that uniquely Irish day of celebration. So I thought I would share a few fun ideas of items you can buy to celebrate the day. From neck ties to suspenders and tutus, there’s a little something for everyone here. It’s kind of sweet to dress up every year regardless of your age. Why not? Enjoy these Fun St. Patrick’s Day Gifts. Do you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? See anything you like in this roundup of Cute and Festive St. Patrick’s Day Gifts? I love the sprinkles of course for baking. If…

  • family - Health - infertility

    Ontario Infertility Patient Chat Tonight #ohip4ivf #onpoli

    Ontario is the province I call home. Many of my readers also live in Ontario. I believe strongly in the leadership of this province and I believe also that Ontario values families. There is no greater evidence of this than the recent commitment to fund IVF for people struggling with infertility. Infertile couples will soon have access to vital efficient fertility treatment. Why is that such a big deal? WELL, let me tell you: 1. Funding IVF (in vitro fertilization) with SET ( single embryo transfer) saves money. When couples must pay 10,000 to $13,000 for a round of IVF…

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    Eight Fun and Easy St. Patrick’s Day Crafts

    Still searching for some fun and easy St Patrick’s Day crafts to do with your kids? Well, you are in luck. Whether you go all out, or have a simple family observation of the Luck of the Irish, there’s a little something for everyone here. These 8 Fun and Easy St. Patrick’s Day crafts will make you smile. Are you always seeking ideas for more guided crafts for kids? Yes, me too. I think I may have mentioned this to some of you but my girls are crafters. My youngest loves to draw and clip and glue and cut and paste…