When I was 13, I remember the humiliation of starting Grade 8 with hairy legs. I thought it was a crime against humanity that everyone I knew was allowed to shave except me. I spent the summer ranting and raving only to hear my mom’s explanation, “You’re hair is so pale, no one will notice.” [...]

As every parent knows, babies come with a lot of stuff and it never seems to slow down.  First they need a layette, then they need toys, then they need more clothes and more clothes and then they need every electronic gadget known to mankind.  Okay, maybe the last is my husband but my kids [...]

Yes, I know that the summer is only half over but I thought it would be a great time to start looking ahead to the school year. The stores are already doing it and I know that advertisers are gearing up their back to school propaganda, so why not start having a few helpful blog [...]

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Bubbles are often a hit with children and I have yet to meet a child that didn’t love bubbles. For this reason alone, bubble painting is often a big hit with kids and there are a number of ways to do bubble painting. For this activity, I am going to do the basic bubble painting [...]

I am often amazed on a daily basis on the overall dependence in cell phones that society has.  I have a cell phone, actually I have two, and both are sitting on a shelf without any minutes to them.  The first because I never used the plan that I had purchased so I didn’t renew [...]

If you have been reading the posts for a few months now, you may have read the post where I mentioned that my husband and I were trying for baby number 3.  I’m not in a huge rush to have the third baby and I have a laid back approach to it.  If it happens, [...]

When I was a little girl, my parents spent almost every summer out on a river or lake fishing. It was an expected vacation for me during the summer and every fall was the expected hunting trip. I, unlike my sister, absolutely loved fishing. There was something about sitting quietly, reflecting on stories that swam [...]

When I had my first son, I was all set for breastfeeding. I thought I knew everything there was to know about breastfeeding and that it would be a breeze. I mean, how hard could breastfeeding really be? The answer was really hard. I had problems with latching, which required a shield, problems with milk [...]

I was swimming with my son yesterday when we began talking about history. He was asking me questions about Indians and how we came to be in Canada. I was answering his questions while I strained to recall all the social studies that I had taken over the years. At one point I mentioned Europeans [...]