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Monday Mingle: Shoe Stories
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Christmas Comes Early at Shes Connected
Christmas came early for many of us who attended the first ever shesconnected conference in Toronto yesterday. First we earned a spot on a list of the top 100 most connected digital women in Canada. Then we headed out to a giant conference that looked a lot like a giant tweetup at times. (#sccto hash tag was on fire and trended for a bit in Ottawa.) And Oh, she said blushing, did I mention the swag? Unbelievable. See below. Kobo, Calvin Klein, The Kit, Kraft Foods, Smashbox, Egg Farmers of Ontario, Booty Camp Fitness, Shoppers Drug Mart Look Good Feel Better, Bourgois and Maple Leaf were some of the amazing sponsors. Oops…
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Cheerios Mini-Milestones Contest and Giveaway
Image courtesy of Wiki free images We are a big Cheerios family. (No, I’m not talking about the Glee Cheerleaders) Love them for all ages and sizes of people. We like original Cheerios and Apple Cinnamon and Multi-Grain, and of course Honey Nut. We have not been without a box of Cheerios ever since darling youngest daughter was about eight months old. Which brings me to my milestone moment. I still remember giving my oldest daughter her first solid food. The first real solid thing I ever gave her was a Cheerio. No, seriously! Another Mommy friend Lisa leaned over and handed me a couple of Cheerios at…
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Monday Mingle: Vlogging Tips
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.
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My favourite children’s movies of the year
My favourite children’s movies of the year are two wildly different stories: one animated and one based upon a best-selling children’s author from the time I was little. These ones are out just in time to buy for Christmas and if I had to choose two to give as gifts these would be the ones. Toy Story 3 was fine as far as movies go, but I found there to be some scary parts for my children and some toys were much too mean-spirited for me. Also a children’s movie with humour that is more aimed at adults than children is really not a children’s movie, in my opinion. Ramona…
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Momnesia
I never looked this exhausted before I had kids. We all have them – those crazed exhausted Mommy moments in which we do something so incredibly forgetful it can only be described as Momnesia. I once knew a Mom who went to work with mismatched shoes. I always secretly thought that was a ploy to make her look like she was busier than the rest of us lowly reporters. But now I know it happens. Momnesia. A lady I know who is very smart and successful, mom of two little girls and a professor, once missed the parent teacher meeting scheduled for her child. A different…
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All Things Fall and a Monday Mingle on Thanksgiving Monday
Hey there, Happy Canadian Thanksgiving Monday. This is our vlog meme started by Jennifer Regan at Eighty MPH Mom.com. Pop by and visit some of my lovely blogging friends. Leave comments as you are able. I wonder for my followers out there what do you like to do in the fall?
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Baby Prodigy: Review and Giveaway
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 when she heard we would be reviewing baby Prodigy, a line of…
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Do You Know Who I Am?: Blogging and Entitlement
In a digital world, bloggers have become a strange new breed of celebrity. Many are Moms, forging and shaping opinion, writing the future of media. They are on line columnists, brand ambassadors, reviewers, multi-media managers, content providers, publishers, SEO experts, social media strategists and tech experts. They are explorers, pure and simple. Some powerful females have carved out a home and grown an almost cult-like following through their blogs. The Bloggess has 67,000 followers on Twitter alone, not to mention the legions who read her on various other sites. Dooce got a book deal and became a legend. Type A Mom Kelby Carr has over 25,000 followers on twitter and many look…
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Asheville, North Carolina: Colourful and One of a Kind
The home of famous American author Thomas Wolfe Asheville is a friendly, warm southern state filled with colourful stories, great restaurants and even more colourful characters. On arriving in Asheville, North Carolina, I encountered a group of musicians picking up their instruments from the baggage carousel. That’s not something you see every day in London, Ontario where we try hard to hide our artsy secret lives beneath business suits or day jobs. Cab driver Tom Grandy confirms Asheville is a liberal, artistic, outdoorsy, community surrounded by states that are much less liberal in their politics. In fact located between mountain ranges the area is known as an energy mecca for artists of all sorts.…