• Health - Parenting

    Healthy Resolutions: How Can You Make a Difference in a Child’s Life?

    January 11, 2011 - By 

    This video gets me every time. Adoption Awareness Month has come and gone, but children still wait. This Youtube video posted by the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies (OACAS) says it all. There are still 9,200 children waiting for forever homes in the province of Ontario. If you have ever thought about adopting or fostering a child and giving them a home, what are you waiting for? Adults can wait to become parents, but children should never wait for a forever home. Call London-Middlesex Children’s Aid Society to enquire about domestic foster care adoption. 519-455-9000. Don’t take no for…

  • family

    Friday Finds: Outerwear Because Baby It’s Cold Outside!

    January 7, 2011 - By 

    Hey all: I have found some great deals this week to pass on  for all of my loyal readers.Save.ca has some very good coupons including a $5 off Aleve coupon. Also look for my Healthy Resolutions giveaways this month. Thanks to everyone who took part in my first ever Twitter party. It was a success and I look forward to having more and bringing giveaways to you that way as well. Canadian Tire this week still has 50 % off their treadmills, bikes and elliptical machines.Children’s Place has extra 40 % off already marked down items.Old Navy: Kid’s uniform sale…

  • family

    Healthy Resolutions and a Twitter Party #drheather

    January 5, 2011 - By 

    Well, this month, with the theme of fresh starts and a brand new shiny year stretched out before us I am happy to announce my first ever twitter party. I hope this will be a regular feature for thriftymommedia, so join us for information and to win some of the great prizes we have available. Join us Thursday at 1 p.m. (that’s this week. the 6th) for a twitter party with @drheathernd, a naturopathic doctor and author of the very cool, educational and engaging Human Body Detectives series and myself @inkscrblr. Dr. Heather will take questions about your child’s health and…

  • blogging
    family

    My Many Kickass Lessons in Blogging 2010

    December 30, 2010 - By 

    I believe it’s important to take stock every so often and reflect on what worked and what didn’t work in business. Same is true for blogging. Blogging is a business and it grows every year and changes too so it’s vital to stay on top of some trends, while avoiding roadblocks when you can. Here’s what I learned from blogging this year. Well this is my second year blogging and a much more successful one than the first. I attribute much of that to treating the blog as a business this year. Many of the lessons I learned in 2010…

  • family

    Savvy Saving at Christmas

    December 24, 2010 - By 

    Well, I realize this one is late, but better late than never as I say. I once had a colleague who worked every year at Christmas. She was young and had no children herself and she enjoyed making the extra couple of dollars that working that day afforded. So, when her extended family gathered together in Kitchener, it was after Boxing Day. She smartly did all of her shopping on Boxing Day and saved a lot of money that way. If that is not an option for you and you still struggle to meet your budget, there are some other…

  • family

    Nanny McPhee Returns – Review

    December 22, 2010 - By 

    We missed this one at the movie theatres and had our first chance to see it yesterday. After my daughter had several teeth pulled, and others fixed, we were looking for a quiet way to spend the afternoon. So we curled up and put Nanny McPhee Returns on the television. My kids and I are both big fans of the first Nanny McPhee movie, in which a hideous nanny with a heart of gold and a tricky disciplinary strategy comes to help a widowed undertaker care for his brood of really rambunctious children. Nanny McPhee was a fun, surprisingly clever…

  • Back To School - FASD - special needs

    When They Exceed Your Expectations

    December 19, 2010 - By 

    My children have both given me hundreds of proud moments. They both excel at something. My eldest is bright and talented and pretty much every year from the time she started school she has won awards. Student of the month. Check. A’s in every subject. Check. Friends. Check. She is a beautiful smart and creative overachiever. My youngest child is now six. She is beautiful and smart and incredibly athletic and she also has special needs. I love her madly and we agonized for years over the choice of school for her. We kept her at a great private preschool as…

  • family

    Proactiv Canada Blog Tour: Challenge Week 1 and Giveaway

    December 15, 2010 - By 

    What do I have in common with Avril Lavigne, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry? My beautiful voice of course (Joking!) The real answer is: my skin care regime. As part of Mom Central Canada’s latest blog tour I have been offered a challenge and a giveaway. Two of my favourite things. So I am now on the new Proactiv Canada blog tour which means I get to try their products for one month and document the changes to my skin. So far, I have been surprised by the gentleness of the products. Also I didn’t realize Proactiv was created by dermatologists.…