Archives: Savvy Stories

Dressing your kids

Are you Momzilla? Do you care about your kids clothes? Do your children dress themselves or are you the picker? Who wears the pants in your kids wardrobe?

A table for one and a half

Dates with your kids, do you do it? Taking the time to mingle alone with your child, and enjoying it.

Shy Baby

Do you have a child who is shy? What are your coping mechanisms? Here is some advice from a shy Mommy!

Love me do

All I want for Valentine’s Day is….

Chickpea Salad

It’s possible that maybe, just maybe, I’ve been *ahem* overindulging lately. Perhaps I’ve had too many brownies, or maybe it was the lemon tart, possibly it could be the maple scones.

Valentine Tree Hearts

We love making trees around here. Nope, I don’t mean growing trees, although we like that too, I mean decorative and seasonal trees. We gather up a few fallen branches when we are out for a walk. Bring the branches inside and pop them into a vase – instan

February To Do

Well, if January is the longest month in the year then February is the shortest. Although it is a leap year, so February is busting out one more day. The fact is that in this house February blasts by in a flash. This February we have 2 birthday parties…

Pork and Vegetable Stovetop Stew

A new month means turning the page on the calendar…which means a new recipe to try! I decided last month to take on preparing all the recipes in the Foodland Ontario 2012 Calendar. I picked my calendar up, for free, at the local grocery store. If you…

The Art of Puking

You read that right, the Art of Puking. After my evening last night, I had a “light bulb” moment on the random things that I’ve taught my children to make my very sensitize gag reflex at ease.

While I Was Up Nursing My Gallbladder, You Were Sleeping

It woke me up at 3 in the morning squeezing every last bit of air from my lungs. Its grip sending stabbing pains from under my rib cage to my boob. The right one. In case you perverts want to know. I thought of what I had ate that day. Oatmeal….