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…

Hello lovely readers! It is the Thursday before Easter and I wanted to share with you another installment of our Cooking With Kids Feature. Now I want to assure you that, we often cook from scratch, but with kids when patience and time can clearly be at issue, well if the aim is spending time together and bonding and enjoying making something in the kitchen, sometimes it is simpler to use things that stack the deck in your favour. So for instance this week with my youngest, an easily frustrated child, who has never made a pie before, well I…

Allow me to  introduce our two new pets. Yup two. Baby guinea pigs. Turns out my kids love guinea pigs and really wanted a new little creature. As you may remember their sweet gal Cottonball died about two months ago. Guinea pigs are lovely little pets for kids. Cottonball was easygoing and rarely bit and if she did it didn’t hurt. They are a simple and fairly low maintenance child friendly pet. Not for those under about 6 or 7. These guys are: Buttercup and on Payton (bottom pic) Hope. I was hoping for Buttercup and Wesley, but the pun…

One year ago Loose Button shipped the first one of these Luxe boxes.I am so lucky to have received one this month for review. And – wait for it – I can almost hear your squeals of joy!! Yes, I get to give one away to you lovely readers. Canada Only. Last month this beautiful package arrive from Loose Button and honestly it was the highlight of my March. I have been reading these reviews for awhile on line and entering all the giveaway contests myself. And never have I won. I was ecstatic to receive a tiny sample of a Luxe…