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Ride, Baby, Ride

Wanna live life in the fast lane? Try a bike path or trail instead. You can let the kids go…

Paint, Hang or Stick

Fingerprints, ketchup smudges, crayon scribbles and, later, first names and absent-minded doodles surreptitiously scrawled in pencil. All of them cute…

Farming Fashion

Old McDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-OAnd on his farm he had a goat (and a cow) E-I-E-I-O With some cashmere…

Think Outside the (Lunch) Box

It’s a fantasy we all have at this time of year—sending our little ones off to school with the perfect lunch tucked away in their bags. It will be homemade, but with little effort. Kid-approved, while meeting Canada’s Food Guide recommendations. Tough enough to last in a hot cloakroom all morning, but sensitive to the surrounding students’ food allergies. Sanitary, but low on disposable packaging.
Meeting all those requirements five days a week? No wonder it’s often only a fantasy.

A Juicy Story

To juice or not to juice, that is the question. And the good news is we have the answer. A…

A Juicy Story

To juice or not to juice, that is the question. And the good news is we have the answer. A…

Buy. Sell. Then Buy Some More.

It never fails. We always crave new stuff this time of year. The sight of new binders and pencil cases,…

Details, Details

We like to think of that smelly, dirty vehicle which transports our children from place to place as not our…

Detail Oriented

What is that awful smell? That’s how it starts. Then you scour your vehicle for the source. You find raisins,…

Kick the Chaos

Even for us adults, September evokes that old ‘back to school’ feeling. It’s just that the pink plastic Barbie lunchbox…