Picture Helen Hunt playing the Mom of a surfer girl who experiences a great tragedy and learns to come back from the brink. If that doesn’t peak your interest, then imagine a killer soundtrack. Dennis Quaid as a Dad. Lots of beach shots and stunning cinematography. Put them all together with big screen debut of Carrie Underwood. Excited yet? I am incredibly fortunate to be able to bring information about this amazing new movie to my readers. Soul Surfer is an inspirational true story of a teenager named Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame…

For some reason this one totally appeals to me. And I am happy to offer this to my readers. For the first time ever, the John Labatt Centre is playing host to the top bull riders in Canada. The show is Saturday, April 2nd, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. But if you order on line with the special code GSAS, thriftymommastips and the John Labatt Centre help you save 25 % off the price of each ticket. That means a P2 level ticket that would normally be $51.75 is now $39.25 with the code. Holy savings! I have never seen professional…

 The Before Photo  About 30 days ago I was asked to take part in the Proactiv Challenge and Blog Tour with Mom Central Canada and I was pleasantly surprised by the results. Hopefully you will be too. My skin tends to be dry and not so oily. But I was excited to test this product anyways for my readers. Also equally excited that this well known celebrity endorsed system was now being offered in Canada.  My skin is definitely cleaner as a result of this Proactiv system and it was easy to use. I liked the cleanser a lot because…

Olivia? Chronicles of Narnia, or Diary of a Wimpy Kid? No matter what your favourite children’s book, buy, or bring a gently used copy, to Health Minister Deb Matthews office and you can share it with a child who might not otherwise have a chance to discover your memorable childhood read. For the seventh year running Health Minister Deb Matthews children’s book drive is in full swing. This is a local literacy initative that Londoners support wholeheartedly every year. This year, like last year, I will take my children with me and encourage them to donate a new book to the…

Hi there, Monday morning again and I am with laryngitis. Hence the lovely voice quality here. Anyways don’t forget to leave your comments here and have a great week. This is a meme started by Jennifer at Eighty MPH Mom. Join in and have some fun.

 When my oldest daughter was a toddler we loved to sit with the Baby Einstein series of videos, and later DVDs, and watch as new words and worlds came to life for half an hour or so each morning. And if I needed 20 minutes to throw myself together I knew I could pop the video on and she could safely watch from her activity centre. Now there are a few different baby DVDs on the market. Back then, there was really only the one option. My oldest child is now nine but she fondly remembers the cute videos and was oddly thrilled…

I am not the world’s biggest fan of diets. I was somewhat weight obsessed in my teenage years and had a mother who was perpetually on the latest “fad diet.” Yoyo dieting was the norm, as our weathered old Kodak pictures, now yellowing around the edges, will attest. I threw my scale out when I was about 23, so let’s just say that was a few years ago. I prefer to be happy and healthy. When I became a Mom to two girls, well I knew they would never catch me standing in front of a mirror asking (cue whiny nasal tone)…