This Mom Loves is looking for some enthusiastic guest bloggers for the Spring and Summer seasons! Do you have a particular area of expertise or top-ten-tips to share with my readers? Photos and ideas for a birthday party theme you’ve tried out? Perhaps you could post about the family attractions in the major city closest […] Read more…
ET Canada’s Cheryl Hickey Welcomes Baby Number 2
Congratulations to Cheryl Hickey, husband Kevin Foley, and son Jaxs who welcomed baby girl Nyla to their family on Wednesday April 17th, 2013. Cheryl tweeted out a photo of the new little 8 lbs, 1 oz sweetie late that evening: Throughout her second pregnancy, Cheryl continued her hosting duties on Global’s ET Canada, and was featured in […] Read more…
Wednesday Words From the Gospels
Wait! Don’t surf away/delete this e-mail just because you aren’t Catholic. Or Christian. Or a believer at all. Even if that is the case, I would be hard pressed to believe that there isn’t a single tidbit of advice, encouragement or support for you to glean from any of the quotes below. Give the words a chance […] Read more…
Look What I Found: The Kelly Ripa Edition
I recently cleaned out our filing cabinet and was excited to come across an old file marked “Autographed Photos”. The back story: when I was a kid, I loved getting mail. When I was eight, I even put an ad in the kids’ section of the Toronto Sunday Sun newspaper looking for penpals, and received over […] Read more…
Promoting a Facebook Post: Is It Worth It?
This Mom Loves has 1325 fans on Facebook. (More or less. More once you click on over and “Like” it. See how smooth I was there?) Anyway, the number seems pretty respectable, doesn’t it? But with the way Facebook works, most of my posts are seen in the timelines of only 50 – 100 people, which to me does not […] Read more…
Book Launch Party: Kathy Buckworth’s “I Am So The Boss Of You”
Yeah, so I went to a Book Launch a couple of weeks ago. No biggie. Okay, fine, it was the first time I’ve been to one and I thought it was totally cool! I follow parenting author and humorist Kathy Buckworth on Twitter, and I find her both entertaining and truly funny. (She has even made it […] Read more…
Homework: Oui ou Non?
According to a tidbit in the April issue of Parents magazine, French president Francois Hollande has proposed a ban on homework. When Parents asked their readers, 65% were in favor of banning homework in the US, and 35% were against. What do you think? As a parent (note that my girls are only in JK and […] Read more…
Nia Vardalos: The “Instant Mom”-terview
Nia Vardalos’ new book, “Instant Mom”, is about adoption. But let me be clear: it is not just about adoption. It’s more of a hybrid parenting/humour/autobiography-she-didn’t-want-to-write type of book. And you should read it. I mean first of all, the woman is fun-ny. While I sobbed at several parts (when her daughter first calls her “Mommy”, for example), Nia’s trademark self-deprecating humour […] Read more…
How I Spring Cleaned My Twitter Account {And Tim’s Card Up For Grabs!}
{Prologue: If you read to the end, you could win a $25 Tim Horton’s gift card!} Twitter can be wonderful, especially for bloggers. Last week, I sent out this tweet: I was published in @todaysparent! Ok, so they just quoted my tweet on their letters page but still. Totally a foot in the door, right? […] Read more…
Hallmark’s Spring Treasures
Spring is prime gift-giving season (Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Graduation) and Hallmark is one-stop shopping for both useful and keepsake gifts. When my latest Hallmark Ambassador box arrived on the doorstep (Maggie was very proud of herself for spotting the delivery truck and dragging the box in herself) I found tons of great goodies, […] Read more…