• best-Easter-gifts
    family - Giveaways - parenting

    Spring is Officially Here #LoveHallmarkCA #Giveaway

    March 19, 2015 - By 

    Spring has arrived at long last and it’s time to lighten up the clothing, clear away the winter drearies and get decorating for Easter! The garden and yard are ready to be tamed and spring cleaning is in full swing in many places. I’ve had a decent winter, even though the cold threatened to make me grumpy many times. We went away and took a family cruise at New Years and that helped us to relax for a week, before we returned to a snowy slippery drive back home down the 401. We were able to hunker down and plow…

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    family - Food - Health - parenting

    Are Your Getting Enough Fruits and Veggies? Printable Fruit and Vegetable Journal

    March 19, 2015 - By 

    Healthy eating and healthy living is a constant goal here. We each exercise a lot and we are a very active family in my opinion. In fact my kids are involved in many sports and we try to balance that out by building in our own sports and fitness goals and activities too. One area where we all need help though is eating. We strive to include enough fruits and vegetables daily, but don’t always get there.   Eating well can be challenging for any family. There is always room for improvement. I have a brutal sweet tooth that is…

  • family - Health - parenting - Parenting

    No Such Thing As Synthetic Children: On #IVF, Same Sex #adoption and Boycotting Dolce and Gabbana

    March 17, 2015 - By 

    Last night I was scouring twitter to check my messages when I spied a new friend talking about IVF, in vitro fertilization. She was clearly upset. I asked her what I had missed that had her so fired up and she sent me the link to the Dolce and Gabbana statement about IVF children being synthetic. The statement hit on same sex adoption as well. Did you Miss it? In an Italian magazine called Panorama Magazine Dolce and Gabbana, world renowned celebrity fashion designers, were quoted stating that IVF children are synthetic. They went on to add that they oppose same…

  • DIY-Spring-Decor
    family

    Easy DIY Spring Decor Ideas

    March 16, 2015 - By 

    I live with crafty kids. They love to make things and they are usually pretty creative. So every season I am hunting down new and fun craft ideas to share. These Easy DIY Spring Decor Ideas are so colourful and fun to do. Can you feel that? Temperatures are rising and snow is melting and I have the urge to purge. Spring cleaning I mean! There’s nothing better than fresh air and puddles after a long brutally snowy and cold winter. Spring is a time to create and decorate and freshen everything up just a little. Colours are lighter and the…

  • personalized-gifts
    family - Giveaways - parenting

    Personalized Canvas Art from Canvas Champ #Giveaway

    March 16, 2015 - By 

      There’s nothing more fun than a memorable family vacation. Sometimes, the memories of a great winter break away with family, can be almost enough to warm you up and get you through that endless cold season, even in Canada. So why not immortalize the trip with a personalized canvas picture of your travels? Canvas Champ.ca provides great personalized gifts. When they approached me to review a custom canvas product and host a giveaway, I knew which photo I wanted to be fashioned into a pretty piece for my mantle. We took a week long Caribbean cruise over New Years.…

  • Divine pie recipes
    family - Food - parenting

    Ten Divine Pie Recipes

    March 13, 2015 - By 

    What can you say about pie? It’s like a little slice of heaven on a plate. There are hundreds of kinds of pies, from savoury to sweet. I like an old fashioned Lemon merengue almost more than anything else. Key lime is also extremely refreshing in the summer months. Cherry pie can be a treat any time of the year but mostly I like that one when the cherries are in season. On National Pie Day, March 14, 2015, I thought I’d pull together a roundup of some divine pie recipes from around the many fabulous blogs I read. What’s…

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    A Tale of Two Pitches: Dos and Dont’s of Pitching Bloggers #blogging #business

    March 12, 2015 - By 

    I had a peculiar and wonderful week and I wanted to share why. As I write this I am about to board a plane with my family to fly to Tremblant. A public relations company reached out beautifully to connect with me and start what I hope will be a lasting relationship. They did everything right from the moment we first connected. But more about that in a minute. This week I also had a pitch that was so far off the mark it left me shaking my head, so I wanted to take this post to share this story:…

  • Monster Jam
    family - parenting

    Monster Jam 2015 at Budweiser Gardens #MyMonsterJam

    March 11, 2015 - By 

    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…

  • DIY shea butter anti frizz balm
    family

    Easy DIY Shea Butter Anti-Frizz Balm

    March 9, 2015 - By 

    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…

  • Guinness Inspired Recipes
    family - Food

    Guinness Inspired Recipes

    March 6, 2015 - By 

    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…