Today is officially – ‘decorate the house for Halloween day’ – after many a Babes, Birthdays and Blessings this past weekend. Surf over to Parent Club often to get Halloween activities, costume ideas and exploration of “scary” things for kids (have a good one about tv shows). Have a Halloween tip, story or idea to…
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Babies, Birthdays and Blessings
My baby is having another birthday. And with it comes great pride and a little sadness. Isn’t it funny how we pull children forward – growing, learning and becoming – yet we – as parents – find it a bit hard to see them walk away from the baby years. I do anyway. This week,…
Pillsbury Baking Challenge – My Cinnamon Heart Twists
The What: Pillsbury Baking Challenge encouraging Moms to get creative in the kitchen with minimal effort. The Grand Prize: a dream suite of kitchen appliances courtesy of Whirlpool®, cleaning services for a full year courtesy of Molly Maid®, and a year’s worth of groceries, all valued at over $11,500. There are also fan-ta-bu-lous category prizes…
Parent Club Review: Head Snuggler
The What: Head SnugglerTM The How:It’s designed to properly support a child’s head and neck while he/she rests in the car seat (or simple umbrella stroller) to not only provide more comfort for kids, but peace of mind for parents. The Review: We received the Head Snuggler from Melrose Kids in August 2009 but didn’t…
obnoxious-sport-parent-mentality
My kids don’t play hockey – so we aren’t exposed to “obnoxious-sport-parent-mentality” – that what I call parents who like to be unofficial coaches from the stands – who like to yell at 15 year old referees because they disagree with a call – that sort of parent (I’ve “heard” that “obnoxious-sport-parent-mentality” is often at…
Parent Club Review: PC Home Grown (+ Recipe)
Buying ‘home grown’ (i.e. foods grown locally) is an important thing. Imported foods have food miles on them (food miles = the number of miles that item has travelled from farm to your table — if an apple is picked in New Zealand and is flown to Canada — it travels about 7,300 air miles…
Parent Club Review: WeMuv™
The What: “With a specially designed WeMuv™ pedometer and virtual travel passport, members accumulate MuvPoints to navigate and explore 2D animated ‘real’ world destinations. Members gain bonus points playing mini-games and trivia throughout their virtual journey. Trivia games provide fun facts on topics of health and nutrition, world geography, culture, earth and social sciences and…
Parent Club tips for BACK TO SCHOOL
Don’t freak your kids out. Don’t over talk school. Don’t cry in front of them. Don’t spill your worries to other parents in earshot of your children. You need to be their rock. Be a rock! Short and sweet. Don’t hang around the classroom. Don’t try to talk to the teacher. Make drop off short…
School Nerves
“Will they like me?” “Am I dressed cool enough?” “Will I have a friend?” School nerves are twittering…um…no…it’s not the kids…it’s me…about the other parents in the school yard. I swear it feels like gr. 9 all over again…the little fish in the big pond – the odd duck out – strange. I don’t “do”…
Looking Forward
Sorry to have not updated since Mourning a Baby (which I happen to write on my/our wedding anniversary). And no, I haven’t been wallowing in that mourning (that post looked very wallowing when I looked at it this morning). I’ve been looking forward (which I think is healing – at least for me). I/we have…
Mourning a Baby
I wasn’t going to write this. I thought it too raw, too personal, too painful to put out into the blogosphere…but it was actually my prince who said I should blog about it. We have both received so much support from friends (twitter & non-twits alike), family and co-workers. They volunteered personal stories about 1st…
Smarties Winners…
Random Integer GeneratorHere are your random numbers: 6 11 Timestamp: 2009-08-21 13:59:54 UTC(http://www.random.org/integers) Congrats to #6:Amy Bronee said… Tweeted! August 14, 2009 4:03 PM Congrats to # 11Anonymous said… Smarties are great because…they’re super yummy, peanut-free, colourful yet are made with no artificial colours and I love the tiny snack boxes for a little treat…