Kids
Ottawa Family Activities: Mothercraft Touch-A-Truck
*** Looking for Touch a Truck 2014 information? Click Here! *** What is it with our kids and their fascination with large trucks? My kids have always been so excited to see big…
Travel Tips and items
Last week I had the opportunity to go on Rogers Daytime here in Ottawa to talk about taking road trips with the kids. You can watch the video here. What you may notice…
Take ’em out to the Ballgame
It’s no secret my husband (and now children, and at times myself) are huge baseball fans. We try to go to ball games at least once a year either in Toronto or Detroit…
Bit of Momsense Travels
After a wonderful visit to my husband’s family over Easter, we just returned from a family vacation in Toronto/Niagara. For those of you who don’t live in Ontario, that’s about a 4-6 hour…
Activities: Painting and Creativity
Sometime when I say to the kids ‘let’s paint!’ I wonder what I was thinking. There are very little activities we do that make so much mess, and yet, I think it’s one…
Right before my eyes…
(image: my son’s school crafts) It’s no secret that the whole school experience for my children (currenly, my son is in JK) leaves me feeling a little anxious. It’s one part sadness that…
Why it makes sense to Vote
On May 2, Canadians head to the polls (again) to vote for new Members of Parliament and ultimately a new Prime Minister. I have no desire to talk politics on this blog, however,…
Preschool Activity: Paper Bag Bunny
With Easter coming up, we are all about bunnies and eggs in this house right now. This easy paper bag bunny activity is great with preschoolers, but my toddler loved it too. What…
Cooking with kids: Easter Bunny cookies
(note: I am not very fancy with my baking decorations! 😉 A couple of years ago after Easter, I picked up a bunny cookie cutter on sale. It has turned out to not…
25 Days of Christmas – Advent Calendar
Last year, after reading about the idea to create my own advent calendar of activities on the A Peak Inside the Fishbowl blog, I vowed I would do it this year…
