• Health - Parenting - special needs

    If This Child Were Blind #specialneeds

    April 4, 2013 - By 

    Photo from Today’s Parent, this was an article I wrote for them that was published in 2008. This is Ainsley. Some of you know her well. Others have never met her and that’s okay. You just need to know she has multiple disabilities, aka special needs. That’s the sad fact of prenatal alcohol and poly-substance exposure. It hurts your brain, in fact it can often cause brain damage when you are in utero. (before you are born). I have seen children with FASD, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, whose brains are essentially mapped with holes in places where another child would…

  • family

    Disney Summer Fun – Planes Trailer

    April 2, 2013 - By 

     This one is sure to be hot! Planes, by the creators of Cars, released this summer – in August to be exact. I can’t wait – especially fun because I know my nephew would go nuts for this adorable animated movie. Love the concept of talking planes, trains or automobiles. I can’t wait to see what they have in store next.

  • family

    The Memory Clinic and Dementia Care in The Future

    April 1, 2013 - By 

    The Yummy Mummy Club’s Erica Ehm and Dr. Tiffany Chow A couple of months ago I was invited to The Yummy Mummy Club event for The Memory Clinic. The Memory Clinic by Doctor Tiffany Chow, published by Penguin Books, was of particular interest to me because of the health care journey we have been on with my mother. Chow is one of the esteemed women of Baycrest, a world-renowned retirement home facility in Toronto that specializes in compassionate care for those struggling with dementia. I was thrilled to visit the facility and fairly wowed by the book, as well as…

  • family

    Green Kid Craft Kits Box 10 Music of the World Review

    March 26, 2013 - By 

    It was one of those days. You know the kind where the kids come home sick and you suspect the *flu* bug they have contracted isn’t really viral at all. Especially since the one child quite clearly seems as hyper as ever with no sign of flu, or cold, or anything else really. So, what do you do?  Well, luckily a craft kit from Green Kid crafts arrived today and my little sick just turned nine-year-old, was completely over the moon. I made her wait so I could take some pictures.  There were three full crafts in the music of…

  • family

    #StorageWorx Student Moving Contest #ldnont

    March 25, 2013 - By 

    It’s the signature green you notice first. But the business atmosphere is a very close second. But wait, what’s that? The smell of fresh baked cookies daily? Gourmet coffee brewing? Free wifi? The open spaces, bright lit aisles and clean organized lines of the London, Ontario storage facility are characteristics of Storage Worx that set them clearly miles apart from the competition. This is not your average storage place, in fact there’s very little that is average about the award-winning Storage Worx. Storage Worx is a top notch business centre that caters to clients who store their goods, files, or…

  • infertility - Parenting

    Rachel and Brandon: Infertility to Family #abhc4ivf #abpoli

    March 22, 2013 - By 

    There are no words powerful enough to describe what it is, what it feels like, to wonder if you will ever get to be a family. When I think about all the years we waited, then tried to conceive, all the health care ups and downs, and misery we endured before we formed our family, I am humble, grateful, and a wee bit in awe that we eventually were chosen to be our girl’s parents. When I watch this video of Rachel and Brandon, I am reminded of that again. Whether your path to becoming a family is adoption or…