For Father’s Day this year, our students made “Quick BBQ Sauce” from Martha Stewart’s website. This could also be done by kids at home! We were fortunate to have a couple of moms come in to take the kids to the kitchen in groups (they took 4 at a time) to mix all the ingredients […] Read more…
On Earth Day, I shared a very popular guest post from Lara Murray with 13 Ways to Waste Less. Her tips included reusing containers, such as hand soap containers, which gave me a birthday gift idea for my little DIYer: supplies to make homemade foaming hand soap! We used a great Homemade Organic Foaming Hand […] Read more…
I was thrilled to be back on Global’s The Morning Show today with some tips for parents as we approach the end of the school year! Hosts Carolyn MacKenzie and Jeff McArthur had some great questions for me, like: What’s one question you should ask your child’s teacher before the year ends? Do teachers expect […] Read more…
A few weeks ago I read the wonderful book The 5 Love Languages of Children: The Secret to Loving Children Effectively by Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell. It was so inspiring to me that I decided to start a 5 week parenting challenge on Facebook, where participants made an effort to “speak” a new language […] Read more…
*Note: this book was so inspiring that I will be sharing my very own shoe story here on the blog soon!* Our Shoes, Our Selves by Bridget Moynahan and Amanda Benchley is a beautifully photographed (shout out to Melanie Dunea), coffee-table style book, but you don’t want to skim over the text because it’s just […] Read more…
*Note: I’m giving away one of these right now on Instagram! Click here!* Would you be surprised to learn that I have never owned a stand mixer? A hand mixer, yes, but I have never baked enough to warrant purchasing the stand variety, especially when I assumed that they were all super expensive. I was […] Read more…
Of course you’ve heard about mindfulness and that it can benefit busy moms like all of us…but how do we go about achieving it? For some expert insights, I asked Natalie Matias to answer a few questions! First, tell me about the work that you do, both for individuals and in workplaces? (Now that you’re […] Read more…
Heather B. Armstrong rose to blogger fame way back before This Mom Loves even existed (she was actually fired from her day job in 2002 for writing about her workplace) and subsequently became the epitome of the “Mommy Blogger”. (I hate that term. Please don’t call me that.) In her new book, The Valedictorian of […] Read more…
This Mom Loves is on hiatus while we plan the next jam-packed season! It’s time for everyone to catch up on the episodes you may have missed – plus I’m hoping you’ll share the show with your friends too! Each episode begins with one or more of my favourite things: books, beauty products, apps, anything […] Read more…
As a teacher, I have learned a lot over the years about food allergies and intolerances, and I was excited to take a look at Amanda Orlando’s new cookbook Everyone’s Welcome: The Art of Living and Eating Allergen-Free and ask her a few questions too! While I was very impressed with the book, especially the […] Read more…