I have been thinking about this post for a while. Inspired by my friend (you know who you are) and my kids. If you know me, have met me, or saw me on the TTC platform – I am a skinny, slight, slender-ish person. Always have been. Always. My confession: I have a digestive disorder, IBS-D,…
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Amber Alerts and Scary Stories
This past weekend we drove through Woodstock. I remarked that there were a lot of radar traps and OPP on the road. When we crossed the border into the states – the U.S. customers officer asked us to open the back door to see the children. I thought – she was matching their faces to…
BlogHers Act Canada and Eco-Guilt
Read my latest enviroment column… International Women’s Day and Eco-Guilt Dear fellow mothers (and mother-lovers), In recognition of International Women’s Day (Sun. Mar. 8) – let us all – for a moment – get off our environmental-mother-loving-high-and-mighty-friggin’-pedestals. Let us stop the green guilt we lay on each other. Read full rant at BlogHers Act Canada…
On the Road to Plastic Free
I am on – that yellow brick road – to plastic free (I imagine “my road” the hipper yellow version as shown in The Wiz – with Michael Jackson and Diana Ross). Goodbye Bisphenol A, also known as BPA. What is BPA? (yes, click that – it’s important). Gettin’ back on down my road. I’ve…
Flu Season – Ontario Health Choices
Our house has been hit by a mighty bug (and not the creepy crawly kind). Thing 2 has – what we like to call – the 100 day cough (it lasts about 100 days). A croupy cough which causes THIS from time to time. Others in the house, have gone to bed with the flu…
Throw back to June Cleaver
What the friggin’ heck is wrong with us MOMs?! Seriously, this is a cry for help – take me out for a cup of tea and talk some sense into me…and I’ll do the same for you. What I’m bloggin’ about here is our insane shame over things-not-home-made. Damn you media-marketing-health-sport-industries. Given, childhood obesity rates…
BlogHers ACT Canada – Green Valentine
Check out my new article at BlogHers ACT Canada; Green Valentine I am, admittedly, a curmudgeon when it comes to Valentine’s Day. My thinking is that it is a holiday created by card companies and marketing firms to take advantage of February blahs and boost sales. Valentine’s Day – Bah Humbug! That confessed; I am…
Parent Club Tip: Preventing Head Lice
Advise your children NOT to share hats or hair accessories After washing hair use a leave in conditioner with tea tree oil (THIS ONE is available at Loblaw in the natural health section). Tea tree oil is a natural germicide. Also like just don’t like it. Use hair products, such as; a light dose of…
Sigh…the first bee sting
Ah, the first steps. The first word. The first bee sting?! OK, not a very nice first — but yesterday we experienced the first bee sting of life. Well, we now know – with certainty – Thing 2 does not have an Anaphylactic shock reaction to bee stings. Panic attack reaction – yes. HUGE panic…
Head Lice – Sigh…
Thought it was just dry itchy scalp from the summer weather. Wait something moved. Completely embarrassed. Sigh. Yuck. Sigh again. It’s lice. Immediately did a NIX cream rinse and brushed with the little plastic brush. Yuck. After a bit of research; I found that new research notes that lice are becoming resistant to products such…
Tip for Bee Stings
This may be an urban legend…but it might also work. If you get stung by a bee place a penny on the bite for 15 minutes. Apparently, the copper in the penny counteracts the bite and you should see no swelling and have no pain afterwards. Tape the penny over the bite and remember to…
Solutions for Diaper Rash
If your baby/child presents with a diaper rash/skin irritation here is a simple solution. Mix ½ cup of oatmeal in the child’s bathwater. Do not add soap, bubble bath or bath oil. The oatmeal will soothe the itch and relieve the irritation. This chemical free solution is something that is already in your pantry. It…