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How to Make a Cheese Tray
For my parents’ birthdays this past weekend we served a savory cheese tray appetizer. U.S. Thanksgiving is just around the corner and a cheese tray is the PERFECT addition to your otherwise perfect meal. There are literally a thousand and one…
Hot Gifts of 2011 Big Brother Is Receiving
Tis the season of what to buy for the kid that has everything. I am getting some help this year from Mattel. First they were kind enough to send me the Toy Story Buzz Lightyear Spaceship Command Center. Big Brother is going to LOVE it and I can not wait..
Connect With Santa This Christmas Season
It is that time of year again. Children everywhere are wanting to send Santa their letters. So lets get right to it and share with you how you and your children can contact Santa. Write to Santa: Visit Canada Post – Santa’s Corner where you can…
Quick and easy tips for taking great holiday card photos of your kids
Last week, I hauled out the Santa hats for our annual Christmas card shoot. The boys recognize this tradition, and are wonderfully patient subjects. It was getting dark quickly, but the sun was perfectly screened by light cloud cover and the light on…
Bare is Best – Ban the Bumper
I’d read the books, I’d listened in prenatal classes – I wasn’t supposed to put a bumper in the crib. To reduce the risk of SIDS, a baby shouldn’t have any thick blankets or pillows that he could burrow under or that could become bunched up in f
Redefining my Role
As I walk home after dropping Bowser at preschool I feel strangely light. My arms feel like they do after you’ve done that lean on your wrist trick; as if they might float up in the air. I’m on my own. I’m carrying nothing. I’m holding no-one’s
Were babies really bound up like this?
According to my bedtime read, in 1526, when Mary Boleyn sees her baby son for the first time in months he is “tight-swaddled, rolled in bandages, strapped on a swaddling board.” “I held out my arms to him and his nurse passed him over to me, like a
Were babies really bound up like this?
According to my bedtime read, in 1526, when Mary Boleyn sees her baby son for the first time in months he is “tight-swaddled, rolled in bandages, strapped on a swaddling board.” “I held out my arms to him and his nurse passed him over to me, like a
New Mom Survival Tips for the Holiday Season
As a new mom you are probably looking forward to the upcoming holiday season. It’s your first chance to watch your baby experience Christmas and all the joyous occasions that take place during the month of December.
HOWEVER, at the same time you al
BioHazard of Parental Shame
It has happened. That shame that every single parent of school age kids dread more than anything else. Oh the shame. Oh the embarrassment. Paint a red plague sign on our door….yes, our kids got LICE! EWWWWWWWW So pissed about it. I KNOW…