If I could, I would give them 365 days of this. Because being a kid should be this fun. Because special needs disappear when everyone is laughing with you. Because when you are eight you shouldn’t be stressed out by the adults at your school. You should just be loved and accepted and able to be a kid. Because sometimes schools make terrible classrooms. Wordless Wednesday is a regular meme over at http://www.tarasviewoftheworld.com/ Link up and leave a comment.

Gum the way it used to be.  Glee Gum arrived here this week for review and it didn’t take long for it to disappear. The slogan Gum the way it used to be makes Mom happy and the flavor made my kids happy. Glee Gum comes in a wide range of eight flavors and sizes. My kids loved the bubblegum flavor. Spearmint and cinnamon were some of my favorites, but it was hard to choose. Glee is available in Canada and the U.S. It is all natural made from rainforest chicle, harvested in Mexico and Guatemala. Chicle is a sticky…

My husband recently bought these Rockports Who doesn’t love a nice pair of shoes? And good quality is important. I have a few brands of shoes that are my regular picks. Rockport is one of my favourite brands. Both my husband and I wear Rockport. They are good quality and extremely comfortable. Plus near our home a specialty family shoes store sells a wide range of Rockports. For a limited time if you sign up for Rockport Family, basically click on the offer and sign up for their web site offers, you get 20% off any pair. So if spring…

Lately I am totally digging cooking. No joke. Never thought I would be that gal. But ever since I turned forty. (An age I plan to stay permanently) I love cooking. I cook often now with my kids and we bake and we use our really old oversized crockpot too. We even run a regular Thursday series now called Cooking With Kids. It is all about easy recipes to get children involved in cooking. So we have a lot of dirty dishes and we use our dishwasher a lot. This is a new favorite pastime. Unfortunately the messes left behind…

Wordless Wednesday is a meme hosted on several blogs. I often link up over at Tara’s blog http://www.tarasviewoftheworld To read the post that explains this picture – the result of a really windy day in our neighbourhood – you can click here for more. Have a great Wednesday and take heed of your environment.

My savvy friend got me thinking the other day about doing some more sewing projects with my kids. Sara is a heavy duty sewing expert. Well, in my opinion, she is. She sews a lot of cute clothing and makes quilts. My oldest daughter has been asking for months to get her hands on Grandma’s sewing machine, my new toy, and it seems this might be the right timing for her. So with that in mind, we hit Fabricland for a splurge and Youtube for a tutorial. And, over the next few months we will bring you a few of…

Have your children ever read the book  Have You Filled A Bucket? by Carol McCloud and David Messing Mine have read it a lot over the last year. You know that thing where you read a book repeatedly and are never really sure if your child is internalizing the message. Yeah that. It’s easy to wonder if your words fall on deaf ears sometimes. Well apparently mine are listening. That makes me 9,000 shades of proud. See, this is our neighborhood, today. It was and, still is, a crazed windy gale force kind of epic weather day. Naturally it was…

I love me some fun cookbooks. And I tend to gravitate lately towards those people who embrace their funny. Hear that @chickymara and @Housetalkn? So this cookbook, The Looneyspoons Collection, fits the bill for me. Because if I am going to cook, I might as well have fun at the same time. I am all kinds of multi-tasking spectacular that way. So first things first, Janet and Greta Podleski are the two FAB sisters I first heard about many many years ago when I was living in Kitchener and they hit the big time with, a teeny bit of help…