Wow! Can I just say Wow? Apparently retailers everywhere are certain there will be shopping going on this week during the March Break when children are home and Moms are routinely, either: 1. overwrought by being home all day with the children and tired of hearing “I’m bored!” 9,000 times an hour or 2. thrillled they don’t have to get up and shuttle the kids all out the door, lunch in hand and backpack jammed with completed homework. Which one are you? I probably will straddle both categories over the course of the week. I like not making lunches every night and…

Canadian? Have a blog? Then follow me on over to the Follow Me, I’m Canadian Bloghop. Enter your blog name and http address and your twitter ID or any other details regarding your social media sites. It’s a great way to meet others who share a common geography. There are no big rules, just the fact that you are Canadian is a ticket to enter this one. Also it’s not one of those stalker type bloghops where people leave you odd messages commanding you to follow them back or else!! In fact the rule here is don’t leave those psycho…

 Pop quiz. (Answers at end)1. What is the number one disease that kills North American women? 2. Do heart attacks look the same in women as they do in men? 3. Is Omega 3 a helpful preventative to heart disease, or not? 4. Are you at risk of developing heart disease?5. Is an African American woman more likely to develop heart disease than a Caucasian woman? Which race is more likely to die of heart disease? Last year a good friend of mine had a heart attack. She is in her early 40s. To say that her heart attack was a…

I realize that during my vlog I didn’t specify that the peppers should be hollowed out. I am sure you all knew that, but just adding that on now in case it wasn’t clear. Here is my state secret family friendly recipe:Ingredients: Green Peppers, ground beef, onion, garlic, soya sauce, spaghetti sauce, rice1. Take four Green Peppers (red works too.)2. Hollow the peppers out and boil them on top of the stove for a few minutes. Drain the water and set them upside down to drain.3. Microwave or boil about one cup of rice in a different dish.4. Brown one…

I am not done with this book yet. Well, not in the traditional sense anyways. I have read The Phytozyme Cure from cover to cover in order to review it of course. Anything else would be unprofessional. But in a strictly literal sense, I am not done with this book. The Phytozyme Cure is a handy reference to natural health care and the ways in which various nutrients, minerals and enzymes can unlock and unblock your body’s potential. It is an amazing educational tool. For this reason I will keep this book for years as a guide for my whole family.  I am not…

Last year during the devastating and deadly H1N1 Outbreak I wrote a post on staying healthy and fighting flu for the Ontario Ministry and Mom Central Canada. This year, although the flu outbreak has changed and H1N1 seems to no longer be an issue here, we are deep in the throws of cold and flu season and people are calling in sick in droves, while reports of emergency rooms being oversubscribed and overflowing continue to make headlines. The other day Ontario’s Minister of Health Deb Matthews wrote a letter to the editor appealing to people to find alternatives to the…

A month ago I agreed to start the Proactiv challenge. The Proactiv system, created by two dermatologists, has been around in the United States for several years and is quite popular for radically transforming the skin of superstars like Katy Perry. So I thought I would give it a shot. At the least I was curious and, also in the back of my mind I was thinking too that it might be a product that my daughter, a tween, may need somewhere down the line. My usual skin care regimen is Avon or The Body Shop. My skin tends to be dry…