Parenting
Hosting a Super Mario Party: Party Decorations
Last year my son wanted a Super Mario birthday party. I was happy to oblige. Most of my decor items I ended up making myself. Blocks out of brown construction paper, yellow coin…
Fisher Price Fun – Creating an Epic Battle
Thanks to Fisher Price, the kids once again had a chance to check out some pretty cool products (yes, they are spoiled. The fact that when any delivery arrives they ask if it’s…
The iPad App that is going to blow your kids’ minds (and make you look super cool)
I am really excited about my new gig with Help! We’ve Got Kids, scouring events for families in Ottawa to add to the Help! We’ve Got Kids events newsletter. What I especially love…
Spiderman likes to read
Case in point: I bought the kids their Halloween costumes early because dress up play is huge in this house, and I was tired of hearing ‘when will the Halloween costumes be in?’…
Recipe Success: Sweet Potato Vegetarian Chili
Now that the temperature is dropping, it’s time to break out all of my favourite ‘one pot’ and crock pot recipes. This is a dish that my husband started making last year and…
Preschool Redux
3 years ago I was writing a post about my son starting preschool. Now, here I sit, recapping how my daughter went to her first day of preschool yesterday. The emotions were pretty…
On toddlers, babies and names we call our kids
So my ‘toddler’ is going to preschool next week (did you just sigh for me? Thank you. I appreciate that 🙂 But, I guess since she’s going to preschool, she’s now a preschooler?…
The First Day of School: Mama survived and what his take on it was
The first day was a roaring success. Once all of us got over the shock of arriving to a herd of people standing outside of the school, then being ushered to the gym…
The start of Grade 1 is tomorrow not Thursday – and it hurts my heart
All summer I had September 6 in my head. When people asked when school started I said September 6. Everything was planned around it starting on Thursday, September 6. When we had a…
Cleaning with the kids around
I’m trying to get some house work done in between doing some writing and taking care of my daughter who had a 2 hour flu this morning it seems. After discussing how futile…