Don’t forget to enter to win the Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides gift pack! The contest ends tomorrow (May 26th) at midnight, and entries are extremely low! http://thismomloves.ca/2011/05/20/pirates-of-caribbean-on-stranger-tides/ Read more…
What I Learned From Brooke Burke’s “The Naked Mom” – And a Giveaway!
Giveaway open to Canada and U.S. Part of me didn’t want to like “The Naked Mom”. I knew Brooke Burke as the host of Dancing With the Stars, as well as a media mogul with a website – ModernMom – and a ridiculously high number of Twitter followers (1,775,785 as of this writing, though she […] Read more…
“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” Prize Pack Giveaway
Giveaway open to Canadians. Yes, that’s right: Captain Jack is back and PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES sails into theatres everywhere on May 20th! Walt Disney pictures tells us what we can expect from this much-anticipated film: Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Rob Marshall, “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” […] Read more…
Gail Vaz-Oxlade: The Money-Wise Momterview
Television personality Gail Vaz-Oxlade is a busy woman. On her show “Til Debt Do Us Part”, she helped couples tackle their money issues, and on her new show “Princess”, Gail forces women to stand on their own two financial feet and stop depending on (i.e. taking advantage of) others. Mother of 17 year old Alexandra and 15 year old Malcolm, she is also a columnist and the […] Read more…
Behind the Scenes at Cityline!
{Psst…Cityline is taped a week in advance, so this episode will be airing Monday, March 21st on CityTV!} Watch this episode online at cityline.ca! Click here. To celebrate my mom’s retirement from teaching last year, I had been trying for months to take her to see a taping of Cityline. Since I teach during the week, […] Read more…
Okay, I Watch Too Many Movies…
I’ll just be upfront here: I watched every one of these movies throughout the Christmas holiday season. In order to put over 15 hours of my life to good use, I am providing a service by ranking them for you here in order of preference. Since I missed marking over the holidays (ha ha) I will even provide letter grades […] Read more…
Tracy Moore: My Exclusive Momterview
CityLine is one of my favourite television shows, which is in part because of the beautiful and talented host, Tracy Moore. With a background in journalism, Tracy joined CityTV’s Breakfast Television in 2005, and in the fall of 2008 was chosen to succeed Marilyn Denis at the host of CityLine. Tracy recently returned to work, six weeks after […] Read more…
Jessica Holmes: My Exclusive Momterview
I’m not a laugh-out-loud kind of girl. When I first started going to the movies with my husband, he used to think I didn’t enjoy a film if he didn’t hear me laugh. To his surprise, I could find something hilarious, yet never let out an audible chuckle. Reading “I Love Your Laugh: Finding the […] Read more…
Debbie Travis: The Momterview
“All For One with Debbie Travis” is a new hour-long reality series which brings the home-renovating icon to a different Canadian city each week, surprising the locals with with plans for a reno project to reward a local hero. The twist is that Debbie brings only her ideas, materials and tools… but no team to […] Read more…
Power of Print Recap # 2
Entertainment Weekly September 10, 2010 I love this quote from Ben Affleck, from an interview with Chris Nashawaty: “My wife is a world-class mom. We understand that being parents is the most important job we have. And she still manages to be beautiful and sexy, and I don’t know how she does it, and I’m not […] Read more…