Hey there lovely readers. Recently my darling niece had a first birthday party and she happened to visit her favorite aunt for the occasion. So we used it as a great time to try out one of the amazing kid friendly birthday cake recipes I found on Pinterest. Rainbow Birthday Cake. It is super easy and fun. This is the link to the pin of the original that gave me the idea. It didn’t look exactly as in the pin, but here you go. http://pinterest.com/inkscrblr/cooking-with-children-linky/# So take your basic cake mix and mix it up. I used Betty Crocker, then divide…

Remember this? A few short weeks ago, I ran a post about Priya Means Love, a giveaway of sinus balm and a background on Priya’s amazing mostly organic products. I still adore her and her site on Etsy. I chose the lucky winner some time ago. But, lovely Priya was so pleased with the post that she contacted me about giving everyone of my readers a substantial discount at her store. Priya lives in Toronto and handcrafts her products in The Annex. So right now if you buy any one of her products you can save 20 % off purchase…

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True Confession time: I steal my kids IronKids gummy vitamins. All. The. Time. I love them. So how happy was I when I discovered that Life Science Nutritionals, the Canadian company that makes IronKids had started making Adult Essentials Gummies. Oh I was over the moon, doing happy handsprings in the aisles of the grocery store where I get them. (Well not literally, but I might be by the time I finish this three month stint on the full regimen) I am an ambassador for Adult Essentials Gummy vitamins with ShesConnected. This is the first of my posts about my…

Well as it is Thursday here I am again cooking with my kids. We did a ton of cooking at Easter and little one helped like mad. She loves to be in the kitchen, blending, cracking, stirring and reading the recipe directions. This year I was the Easter hostess and we needed a little help, so I began hunting like mad and found a great glaze for my ham. Now it looks nasty when making it, but my daughter loved, loved, loved knowing she had made such a perfect part of the meal. This glaze is not my own recipe.…

This past year has been a terribly busy roller coaster of moving my Mom to a retirement home and trying to negotiate a whole new stage of life. It is compromising and working with a sibling whether you want to or not. Planning financially and making gut-wrenching life choice and health care decisions for my parent. It is forgetting to breathe. It is being cross-eyed exhausted from travel back and forth to a different city. It is busier than ever could have been predicted. It is me, now being the hostess of every family dinner/ holiday celebration because I moved…

Remember this? Last month when multiple school failures led us to the front door of the school board office. On a day when the school failed my daughter yet again, we went in search of someone in person who would listen to the list of angry complaints I had. We found a superintendent and we eventually had more meetings and more emails and more phone calls and things have settled into a somewhat more supportive routine again. Many of you sent us tweets and facebook status updates and replies and emails regarding how disgusting the whole situation was. Many of…