You’re probably grossed out by poop. Right? Or maybe not. Maybe you’re a parent, a caregiver, a pet owner, or a medical professional. Maybe poop is such a part of your daily life that you have to remind yourself not to talk about the consistency and colour of your child’s diaper. Maybe poop has lost…
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My Secret Sleep Weapon: A SleepBuddy Review and Giveaway
I wrote yesterday about how to get toddlers to go to bed as peacefully as possible. Often however, that isn’t even half of the battle. At some point in their little lives, toddlers believe that when they wake up, everyone else should be awake and be ready to go for the day. This is reasonable…
Toddler Sleep: Taming the Bedtime Monster (with Free Printable)
Unless you are one of the lucky ones, it can seem damned near impossible to get a baby to sleep through the night. After gallons of tears and coffee, it can still feel like sleep is unattainable. No matter how you go about doing it, sleep is a struggle with babies. As for me, I…
Zzzonked – 5 Tips to Get Through the Sleepless Nights
One of my favourite parts of each day is that moment at the end when I am just about ready to call it a night. The chores are as done as they will ever be and the lights have been switched off. The last to go to bed, I very quietly head down the hall…
Notes From the Other Side of a Birthday
So. I am 27. As of Thursday. I had a birthday. A stay-at-home, put-on-a-dress, and-makeup-too, love-filled birthday. It was as fabulous as I could hope for being surrounded by my three best men on Valentine’s Day. I like my birthday. The day is always love-filled and I am always placed right in the middle of…
Love You To Death
File this under ‘Things I never thought I’d say‘. (If you’re a Mom, you know how unbelievably huge that file is). “Stop squishing your brother. Stop now! STOP STRANGLING HIM, Cameron!” With a toddler and an infant, I feel like everyone’s life is constantly hanging in the balance and it is my job to make…
Dear Gavin: A Love Letter On Your 9 Month Day(ish)
My Baby. Last week you turned nine months old. Nine months is always kind of a magical time for me. It represents the point in which you have been out in this world as long as you were deep inside of me. It implies some sort of independence – you as you grow and begin…
You Knew Us When
“I’m going to be on Treehouse!” We had just sat down to breakfast at a restaurant the morning after our long shoot day in Toronto. Cameron, my two year old, was beaming with pride at our waitress. “…with the Octonauts!” If you’re not a Canadian, you might not quite understand the level of excitement that…
Let’s Start at the Beginning: How to Pre-Wash Cloth Diapers
January always brings me back to the very beginning. It is a time to reexamine the habits we have formed and maybe, just possibly, aim to be better – better for our kids, better for the environment, better for ourselves. I’ll soon be sharing with you my resolutions, but I thought now would be a…
Homesick
I heard it for the first time a few days into our big Toronto adventure as we were driving away from our afternoon meeting at Corus Entertainment. It had been Cameron’s and my first face-to-face with the people we would be working with on the commercial shoot. It had been a good meeting. Everyone was nice…
Little Girl in the Big City
“Have you applied for us to be on The Amazing Race Canada?” Dan asked me a few days ago. He had just seen a commercial for the casting call and was tempted by the idea of fame and fortune and spending so much quality time with the love of his life. Heh. “Are you CRAZY?”…
