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Monday Morning Moms – Green Stocking Stuffers
Usually, right around Dec. 15 every year, I realize that Christmas is in 10 days and I have nothing for anyone. I vowed that would not be the case this season and actually got the bulk of the Santa Clausing wrapped up this weekend.
The big stuff is, for me, the easiest to knock off the [...]
Blue Toque Sports Swap
For our family, it’s the season – you know, the one when hockey gear and dance shoes come out only to realize that – sometimes even for the adults – last year’s gear is not fitting like it used to.
We are a hockey family – you’ll often catch dad or daughter in full gear on [...]
Monday Mom’s Poll – The Perfect Jeans
So, ummm, well, anyone who knows me knows for sure that the above photo is not representative of my current physique.
Marshall’s Clothing Company isn’t exactly selling these jeans to the average 38-year-old. I don’t suspect that my butt ever looked that hot in pair of anything.
There was a time when I felt great about my [...]
Lower Grocery Bills with Smart Food Planning
Editor’s Note: Sarah Stromquist is here this morning with her supermom advice (she’s amazing) on how to shop, cook and plan smart while keeping to a strict grocery budget.
That leads me to our Earth Day thought for the day.
Think local.
I know, I know. It’s all the rage. But there’s a good reason for it.
When you [...]
Paper or Plastic? Cloth Bags are the Only Eco Option
Editor’s Note: 2009 in the Comox Valley is, when it comes to basic steps for greening your daily lives, poised to be the year of the reusable bag.
As the Comox Valley Chamber continues to gear up with its bag-less Comox Valley initiative (local businesses are being asked to only offer reusable bag options starting this [...]
Books that Make Home Life Inspirational
I have a crush.
Not really on a person, but a lifestyle – a way of being that is both simple and magical. It pulls together all of the homemade goodness of our childhoods with the purposeful parenting partnerships of today’s generation of moms and dads.
It’s one of those things that I’ve been in denial about [...]
Product Review – Kumon Preschool Skill Builders
Our daughter couldn’t be bothered.
Crayons were so not in her repertoire. Colouring – no thank you!
As you know, she would paint until the cows come home. But, crayons, pens, anything that involved lines – not so much.
The omnipotent “they” tell us that our kiddo should be thinking hard about the whole line-making thing. I get [...]
Product Review – Kai Kids organics
Anybody else having a tough time hunting down green gear for your tiny people?
The eco factor when shopping for kids clothes and gear in the Valley is something that parents searching for those organic-cotton t-shirts, toxin-free feeding options and chemical-free toiletries must almost solely rely upon the Internet for access to.
That’s not necessarily a bad [...]
Top 10 Tips for Boxing Day
It’s Boxing Day around these parts and that means one thing – SALES!
I had big plans to be out the door by 7 a.m. this morning in search of the deals of the century. But, a perogi hangover (those things are brutal in the food coma department) left me less than energetic and I am [...]
Tofino’s Ocean Kids
So, there we were driving along Campbell Street into downtown Tofino.
We had to make a Co-op run for last-minute ingredients (it was perogi party night last night) and ended up at this great kids store that is, in the end, now the sole reason that we as parents no longer have ANY excuses about why [...]
Time to Ditch the Plastic Sports Bottle/Sippy Cup
I’m about to scare you.
Plastic may be useful, but it is also potentially irreparably harming our children by disrupting their endocrine, immune and reproductive systems by leaching toxins into their water, milk and food.
That’s even the plastic in baby bottles, sippy cups and sports drink bottles.
If you are like me, you have to read it [...]
Eco-Friendly Green School Supplies
Did I say it?
Is it possible?
Could it be that back to school is back on the brain?
OK, so getting your kiddos ready to hit the books hasn’t reached an emergency pitch right yet. But, if you are thinking about “greening” their school gear this year (a lot of this can apply to pre-schoolers and toddlers [...]
Worth the Drive – Kool & Child
My husband and I almost set up camp there – particularly happy that the tiny person and grandma decided to hang out at home instead of come with us. Otherwise, she would have insisted we move in forever.
I’d been told by more than one intrepid parent that Kool & Child in Nanaimo was one of [...]
Where oh Where has all of the Maternity Wear Gone?
I realize that a majority of the population of The Valley is Baby Boomers enjoying their retirement years.
But, all the rest of us tend to be young parents in the midst of making and raising young families and I am more than mildly surprised at some of the things most women consider the “basics” in [...]
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