• family

    Cooking With Kids: Festive Peppermint Bark

    November 30, 2012 - By 

    This week in my Cooking With Kids series on thriftymommastips.com we are tackling the most delicious and simple festive treat ever _ peppermint bark for Christmas!! WARNING: You will not be able to resist. Directions are easy. Ingredients: Cookie sheetCrushed candy cane bits.One package of white chocolate bitsOne package of dark or milk chocolate chips. (Your choice) Either one works.With a clean cookie sheet ready to go take the dark chocolate chips and melt them in the microwave. Eyes on the prize here because they turn fast so stir and melt one minute at most. Stir until smooth and lay…

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    Kinder is a Joy to Share #Kindermom Special Offer

    November 27, 2012 - By 

    My kids are already falling asleep dreaming of sugarplums. It doesn’t take much, just the hint that December is around the corner. They are happily crafting their Santa lists, jumping around the house excitedly peeking through the window each morning to check for snow and joyously asking how many more days while ticking each number off on the kitchen calendar. Christmas is a great time for kids at our house, and it should be for children everywhere, but that’s not always the case.  Teaching children to share is a lifelong journey. When my guys were wee ones, well we would…

  • Health - parenting

    Accu-Life True Easy Syringe _ #PTPAinsider

    November 20, 2012 - By 

    Accu-Life True Easy syringe makes dispensing medicines simple and precise for parents everywhere. Happily, I also want to note this one just earned the Parent Tested Parent Approved award for the Holidays 2012 season. Accu-Life is a useful tool so I can see why it gets the seal of approval. This syringe takes a tiny bit of getting used to at first, so it’s crucial that you remove from package and spend some time getting used to the mechanics of figuring out the right dose. Figure out what the correct dose of medicine (by checking with the prescription details or…

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    Adorable Personalized Christmas Gifts: Stickygrams Review

    November 19, 2012 - By 

         Love Instagram? Love unique personalized gifts for Christmas? Then Stickygrams are for you.        Stickygram takes your Instagram photos and turns them into fridge magnets. I was an early fan of Instagram and enjoy shooting pictures on the iphone app. Instagram makes fancying up your photos easy. There are multiple filters you apply after the shot is taken and the simple process makes each photo different.     Now that Instagram has been bought by Facebook, it’s sure to be an even hotter little platform for photo stories. If you haven’t checked out Instagram yet, what are…

  • Parenting

    Are They Real Sisters? – National Adoption Day Bloghop

    November 17, 2012 - By 

    These are my girls, Ainsley and Payton. Sisters. Daughters. Great friends. They love and fight and play and hug and eat and drink and dance and dream and share part of our lives, our home and hearts.  They are the reason we wake up and breathe and do – pretty much everything. There was a time when we didn’t know if we could be parents. There was a time I didn’t even know if I wanted to be a parent, if I am being 100 % truthful. I wanted a career – writing was my passion – and many days…

  • parenting - special needs

    Caring Bridge: Free Website Resource for Caregivers and Families

    November 13, 2012 - By 

    In time for National Family Caregiver’s Month I am honoured to share Caring Bridge, a free website and caregiver resource. One of the hardest things about caring for my mother and my daughters, is that feeling of isolation and exhaustion. Reaching out to others is difficult when you have no more energy to spare after a day spent trying to juggle work, children, regular daily commitments and care-giving. In between all of that you can add to the mix, a daily need to research and educate others – otherwise known as advocacy. Resources can be hard to find, so this…

  • Food - Giveaways - parenting

    Dempster’s Farmhouse Country White Bread #Giveaway

    November 12, 2012 - By 

    What’s your favorite sandwich? I like mine toasted first on a great bread, something substantial, not flimsy or too grainy. The bread, for me, is like the canvas for a work of art. I need it to be well constructed so I can build it high with all the fixings. First I like a good Swiss cheese, then liverwurst, mayonnaise, mustard and salami, maybe a slice of ham too, if we have it. Then I warm the whole thing up for about 20 seconds. Perfection. Writing about it makes me hungry. You can see, with that amount of yummy stuff…

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    Social Media Superstars Award – Chevrolet Canada #chevybliss

    November 10, 2012 - By 

    It’s time once again to hand out my Social Media Superstars Award. This time I am rewarding a car company for a job well done. This is us, my group of social media friends, ironically many of whom, are from London, Ontario, at the excursions part of BlissdomCA in October. For day two of our conference experience we test drove Chevrolet Canada cars, raced through the slalom course which is soaked with water for maximum effect, tasted some delicious gourmet food from a food truck catered by Gourmet Bitches and learned a whole lot about innovation and ways in which technology…

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    Five Easy Steps to Personalize Your Twitter Header #DIY

    November 9, 2012 - By 

    It’s been a few weeks now since twitter changed up its design and some people are still asking how to change their twitter header design, so I thought I would give you a quick lesson. In the interest of prettying up my Twitter stream, here you go: 1. Call up your Twitter home screen. 2. Click on your name – above where it says – view on profile page. (Your name in the left corner of the screen. When you hover over it, the link should be highlighted.) Click on that. Up pops your screen. For some of you there…