Babies and Shopping and Sears, Oh My!

October 23, 2012 by ·

What’s the best part about having a baby? Going shopping!

Okay, that’s not the best part. The best parts are the snuggles and the newborn smell and the tiny fingers and watching your older child become a big brother. But going shopping is pretty good too, especially when it’s your second boy and you have an excuse to buy new stuff. (Actually, having a teeny tiny baby is sort of an excuse to buy new stuff, because he swims in the stuff his older brother only wore for a few days, but anyway…) [Read more…]

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A Mom for Mental Illness

September 23, 2012 by ·

In June I wrote a post about the type of mom I think deserves a Mom of the Year award. There were lots of other people who thought a mom they knew was worthy of the award – 16,909 moms, in fact. That’s how many nominations were received for Walmart’s Mom of the Year award.

16,909 nominations – that’s a lot of love for a lot of moms, some of whom likely don’t often get much recognition. How do you narrow it down from that number? I don’t know, but Walmart did and now eight finalists have been selected. Each of those women receives $10,000 for the charity of her choice AND $10,000 for herself, which I think is pretty bloody amazing.

I was browsing through the list of the finalists and reading their stories. And I stopped at one in particular.  [Read more…]

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New Backpack for Back to School

September 5, 2012 by ·

I’m totally enjoying the back-to-school updates and pictures I’m seeing – makes me feel like maybe we don’t make a big enough deal of the first day of school. Not that we’re there yet, as Connor doesn’t start until next week. I wish I could be there, but next week is my last week at work before maternity leave and he goes to preschool for a couple of hours in the middle of the day. Kind of hard for me to take off when I only have two more days of work after that… [Read more…]

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Stickers for Safety

August 14, 2012 by ·

A few weeks ago we were at the Calgary Stampede and ran into some friends. I looked around and said, “Hey, you’re missing a kid.”

I thought for some reason their middle child hadn’t come with them, but the look on my friend’s face immediately told me that wasn’t the case. It was that combination of What?! and Oh shit as he turned around to look for his son.

They had just walked in the gates but there are throngs of people at that event and they’d walked far enough in that he could have been separated from them in another part of the park. We all started to look around and, as they called the police over to help, I watched my friends’ faces go from Where did he go? to OH MY GOD WHERE IS HE? I can well imagine their panic.

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Building Beautiful

July 17, 2012 by ·

This post is part of YummyMummyClub.ca‘s support of the Dove® Celebrate Mom Contest. I received compensation as a thank you for my participation. This post reflects my personal opinion about the information provided by the sponsors. 

 

She is beautiful and I think now she knows it.

It’s not because she’s beautiful naturally, though she is.

It’s not because people tell her she is, though they do.

And it’s not because she’s magazine-cover perfect, because no one is. Not even cover girls.

It’s because she started building her beauty from the inside. [Read more…]

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