• 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…

  • family

    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…

  • family

    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…

  • family

    Santa Story DVD–Best Morning Ever Just Got Better #Giveaway

    November 7, 2012 - By 

    Your Santa Story arrived today and I ripped it open like a kid on Christmas morning. Your Santa Story personalized Christmas DVD will make you child’s Christmas morning 2012 even sweeter than ever before. A few weeks ago I replied to the email from the creator of Your Santa Story, a person I recalled meeting at Blogher in New York City in August. I volunteered to build My Santa Story to tell my readers about it and offer a giveaway. Your Santa Story isn’t just a cut and paste digitally created computer sleight of hand; it’s a well crafted, acted…

  • family

    Great Chocolate Treats: Friendships and Fixing Bad Days #KinderMOM

    October 30, 2012 - By 

    My kids have clearly hit the October/November blahs at school. They leave in the morning a bit slower than they did in September and they have been coming home a lot less cheery than when the sun was out in full force. My one daughter is having some challenges with getting there again and she is upset often on returning home. There have been some issues with some other kids in class that are not easy to solve at all. This weighs heavily on a sensitive anxious child. The other day a big box of Kindersurprises arrived and I was…

  • infertility - parenting - Parenting

    Infertility Story – An Interview and Guest Post #OHIP4IVF #Onpoli

    October 29, 2012 - By 

    Ultrasound picture courtesy of Wiki images This is a piece that has been written by a friend of mine who lives in Ontario and went through in vitro fertilization (IVF) after infertility. I asked her to write it as a guest post for me here on thriftymommastips.com because she has always been extremely supportive of the Conceivable Dreams goal to grow awareness of the human and financial impact of infertility in Ontario. She supports the campaign to get OHIP funding for in vitro fertilization. Jane, and her husband, never told their parents about their battle with infertility and the arduous process…

  • parenting

    Mary Tyler Moore Moment–#WordlessWednesday #fashion

    October 23, 2012 - By 

    Hats. My girl loves hats. I adore that she has strong fashion sense already and frankly this little picture was her Mary Tyler Moore moment. I couldn’t resist snapping. For several years I could have sworn this child was fashion dyslexic, but lately she has turned that theory on its head. So Hats off to you! Tiny fashionista. Wordless Wednesday is a hop and a photography meme. Link up at one of the many sites that host the #WW linkys.

  • family

    Cooking With Kids – Yummiest Peanut Butter Cups

    October 18, 2012 - By 

    I couldn’t resist this Pinterest inspired recipe for my youngest child’s favourite treat in the entire world – well, other than pizza – Homemade Peanut Butter Cups with sea salt.These are so easy but first let me state clearly that this is a Pinterest recipe. It is not mine originally, but now I am so adding this to me on line recipe box. We duplicated all the details and took our photos and ended up with this. The original recipe comes http://www.blueeyedbakers.com/You don’t even have to cook it or bake it, just melt stuff and let it harden. Super easy…

  • family

    The #LinkedMOMs chat is Frighteningly Good Tonight #Kindermom

    October 17, 2012 - By 

    Lions and Tigers and Goblins and Ghosts! It’s almost time for Halloween and since today is Wednesday you know what that means. Time for the #LinkedMOMs chat. Chat time is same as always – same bat time and same bat channel as they say on the telly! I have affected a British accent for tonight’s chat. I shall be drinking a spot of tea at same time as we are all atwitter on twitter. Get it?! Alright enough punny business. Join us tonight to find out what we are upto this week. And let’s all share our favourite pins for Halloween. Favourite…