You know how brands are always trying to breed the chip with crackers to make something more healthy than a chip and less boring than a cracker? You know how it never, ever works? The cracker ends up being too much like a cracker still to pass for a chip? Well, my friends this time they got it right. I was lucky to get connected with Kellogg’s at Blissdom last year and they’ve been sending me little prize boxes all year filled with their latest items. I love new cereals and new granola bars and other products, but I was…

Wordless Wednesday is a photo meme hosted by Tara’s View of the World and several others. This is my girlie, in Niagara Falls recently, thinking she’s on Hollywood Boulevard or something?!

My brother and Me. The day he walked me down the aisle. The sibling relationship can be challenging when your role changes to become caregiver to an aging parent. This is one of the many topics that are covered on the Comfort Life web site. We called ourselves the three mouseketeers. My Mom. My Brother. Me. We were always three strands of a braid. We fought, motivated, took care of and and looked out for, each other. Very early on, a piece of our family portrait went missing. You know how trees, when pruned of a broken limb, curl outwards in…

I am an iPhone junkie. That’s right I love my iPhone with a passion that is not fleeting and I adore a good app or two. So here I give you another new series that I propose to regularly run on weekends. App Love. Just in time for Memorial Day in the US and a slew of summer holiday weekends and roadtrips, I give you RoadNinja a free app for iPhone and Android phones and iPad as well. Sadly, this gorgeous little app is only available in the U.S. so far, but marketing people tell me it may be available…

Well here it is Thursday again and one more recipe for kids. Now, I know we’ve done these before, but it’s bake sale season and I couldn’t resist. Honestly there is no limit to the varieties of cake pops you can make. I start with my amazing Babycakes cake pop machine and from there it’s just a matter of knowing the tricks to make them pretty. So here is a lovely batch we made for the bake sale. I have learned that the cake pops have to be partly frozen before you ice them or put the sticks in and…

We finally got away. It has been a difficult year as my readers know and so when the chance to visit Niagara Falls came up, well I jumped. Not literally. You know what I mean. Fun weekend away meant water slides and reconnecting as a family and disconnecting the devices and phones for a brief time. This was much needed. Time away from all the stresses. Water for my child, with sensory processing disorder, is a huge comfort and a calming tool. She would stay in the wave pool all day, or stand under the giant bucket that dumps water…

Well, this one is good. You are going to want to jot it down, or bookmark for life. Seriously. Mama went nuts for this delicious recipe. So here is my take on pulled pork. I started on line and my kids, well they have been asking to make this one for months. So finally we found the right cut of pork – a pork blade roast ($6) and we got the crock pot out this morning and got started. Put the pork in crockpot.Add two spoonfuls of vegetable oil.one half cup water3 bay leavesOne diced onion1 can tomato sauce1 can tomato…

Last October I bought a last minute ticket to Blissdom Canada. It was an experience to remember. I still remember sitting in Shes Connected with a great bunch of friends and thinking how inspirational some of the speakers there were and that I really needed to be at the Blissdom Canada conference happening a couple of weeks later. It was sold out, as Blissdom often is, and I wasn’t sure we could afford it. Sponsorship wasn’t an option, because clearly it was too close to the event. And then there was my Mom, who had been really ill all summer.…

Gah! All fun and games until somebody gets run over by a stationary car at the park. Or did anyone get the license plate of that crazy driver?Wordless Wednesday is a meme where we link up and post pictures. It is rarely wordless but we try. Link up over at http://www.tarasviewoftheworld.com/