SavvyMom
SavvyMom brings moms across Canada solutions to their everyday dilemmas, from green living to home organization, finding the best baby and mom products, planning birthday parties and entertaining the kids.
Just Breathe
We love multiple choices. (They make you feel smart.) Try this one—it’s easy peasy. Yoga is for: stretching meditating a…
Birthday Suit(able)
Another great thing about being a parent? Birthday parties. Yet another opportunity to blow that budget out of the water.…
Just Teasing
Hey, mom, can I borrow the car?
If you’re like us, you dread the day those words are uttered. Enjoy this stage of denial and laugh about it with a new line of t-shirts for kids by Babytease. We know there are a lot of great t-shirts out there for kids (and adults) but we think this one deserves an honourable mention. Developed by two savvy entrepreneurs, Neena Rahemtulla and Anne Jackson (mom to 3 year old Samara), the Babytease line consists of high quality and very comfy cotton clothing for babies and toddlers in a range of pastel and primary colours. But the ‘what we like’?
Living the Dream
Once upon a time there was a mommy who made little leather booties for her son. She sold some to…
Calgary: The Savvy Guide to March
Don’t get too ahead of yourself just because the shops are filled with summer clothes. It’s almost March and you…
Toronto: The Savvy Guide to March
Don’t get too ahead of yourself just because the shops are filled with summer clothes. It’s almost March and you…
Ottawa: The Savvy Guide to March
Don’t get too ahead of yourself just because the shops are filled with summer clothes. It’s almost March and you…
Vancouver: The Savvy Guide to March
It might be raining but the rest of the country is still blanketed in snow and spring is just around…
Blue Me Away
To take a page out of Kermit’s book, it’s not easy being blue.
We know because lately we’re not quite navy yet but we’re definitely feeling azure or even maybe aqua.
But according to our good doctor, Dr. Ariel Dalfen, MD, staff psychiatrist at Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto), blue is a pretty common way to feel at this time of year.
Technically, the winter blues are a form of mild depression brought on by a decrease in exposure to sunlight as we move through autumn and winter. About 25% of people are affected by it and four times more women than men (so not fair) suffer from the winter blues (and its more severe counterpart, Seasonal Affective Disorder).
A Cozy Flick
Baby, it’s cold outside! But it’s nice and cozy in that theatre around the corner. And when was the last…