My kids love getting things in the mail. They adore it. Every time there is a package in the mailbox, they ask if it is for them. (Considering that their Dad is a chronic online shopper of cheap goods from China, the packages are usually disappointingly not for them.) One afternoon they came home from…
Kid Gear
Miracle Balm: A Reese and Luke Review
I make kids with sensitive, dry skin. I guess I couldn’t help it. My hands are always dry and scaly by the end of the day. I keep lotion by my bedside table to apply every night and I go through bottles of the stuff at work. My hands crave the humidity of summer and wither…
How to Brush Hair from a Parent who Doesn’t Brush Hair
Meet Ella. She is tiny, blonde, and she calls my kids “guys”. She adores her Nana (in contrast to her same-aged cousin Gavin who worships his Papa). She’s my niece. She has ridiculously curly hair. I don’t know about other boy-moms but I never brush my kids’ hair. OK, that’s not entirely true. I do…
Boy Clothes
“I bet you’d like to have a girl.” I hear that a lot. Boy-moms hear that a lot. (I assume girl-moms hear the opposite, as if being a parent to only one gender is somehow not completely fulfilling, which is ludicrous, of course.) Strangely, at the centre of the comments that I usually hear, there…
Is BlackBerry Really an Option?
So here’s some preliminary information about me that will be relevant: I’m an Android user. A Samsung Galaxy S3 to be exact. Before I got this Android for Christmas, I owned an iPhone, a Blackberry, another iPhone, and another Blackberry, in succession. And since acquiring my Samsung Galaxy S3, I had the option to swap…
Mother Sees All
It is dark. Quiet. Not too quiet though, as my kids are in bed and supposed to be sleeping. Quiet is good. Quiet means that they are in their respective beds, trying to drift off to dreamland. Quiet means that I can finally just stop the daily grind and veg for a bit. Quiet means…
Car Seat Conversations
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Britax. The opinions and text and stories are 100% mine. My husband keeps asking when we get to turn Gavin around in his car seat. Our one and a half year old is still rear-facing while the rest of the family all looks forward,…
The End of Great Things = One Celebratory Giveaway
We live eleven minutes from the beach. For the past four years we have lived 21 minutes from the beach (that should tell you roughly how far we moved). In all that time, (plus the previous three years I’ve lived in this city,) I have only been to the beach twice. Once last year, and…
“I Wear My Cloth Diapers At Night”
There’s a little secret that some cloth diaper users don’t always choose to tell you. We don’t cloth diaper exclusively. Sure, we love the financial savings that cloth diapers afford, and we love knowing the materials that are sitting so close to our children’s sensitive skin, and we love knowing that we aren’t filling our…
Diaper Daycare
Editor’s Note: So much has happened this month. I started work, my baby nephew was born, my own baby turned one, and we decided to start the process of buying our first home. Needless to say, my blog has taken a bit of a back seat. I hope to find more time soon, but at the…
Stripping: A Guide for Cloth Diapers
If you have been a cloth diaper user for any amount of time, you know that no matter how diligent you are at prepping them and keeping them clean and using the right detergent, they eventually start to turn… sour. They can start to stink even after coming out of the wash, and they no…
