Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
I’m very proud of myself this year for sticking to my 2011 New Year’s resolutions. They were the following: … … … As you can see, I set very lofty goals for myself in the areas of self-improvement, kindness, discipline and dust bunny eradication. Now, I have the immense personal satisfaction of knowing that I [...]
You’re still shopping, aren’t you? Or rather, you haven’t started. Don’t worry; you’re me, half the time. (The other half of the time I feel way too ambitious then use the energy to radically overcompensate and buy way too many presents too early and end up with way too many copies of the same book [...]
So the other week I went to SeaWorld, and they were all, like, bring a bathing suit, which was, on the one hand, terrifying, but on the other, intriguing (swimwear at SeaWorld could mean… swimming at SeaWorld! With, like, their creatures!) It also raised the very important of issue of how, if there were going [...]
Next time I need someone to exhaust my kid — because you know, I’m already exhausted and my child falls into the category know as ‘never tired’ — I am hiring an otter to do the job. Why an otter you ask? Well the proof is in this video: Look at him go! You can [...]
Hey, Mother’s Day is this weekend! And while all the Good Moms will smile and say it’s totally OK if you forgot Mother’s Day, or if you’ve booked a golf trip all day, or if her Mother’s Day is being spent at your Mother’s house where she will be subjected to passive-aggressive jabs and jell-o [...]
Rule number one for the social media mother, or any mother, or anyone, who carries a lot of stuff: learn how to accessorize. No, not with purses and handbags. With bags for tech gear, and everything else that you carry that won’t fit into your knock-off Fendi clutch. (Ha. You’re a mother. Like you carry [...]
This weekend, we – we as in the whole fan-damily; moms and dads and uncles and aunts and cousins – are headed to Disney World. It’s Tanner’s wish-trip; the trip that brings his family together for a holiday and allows him to show his cousins around his favorite place in the world and that was [...]
In January, I presented a workshop on the topic of choosing a blogging platform at Blissdom 11 in Nashville. It’s a great starting point for blogging wanna-bees, newbies, or anyone who wants to know more about what blogging tools are out there, because the most basic tool in all blogger’s bag of tricks — besides [...]
Oh how I love word play! Just as much as you, the aspiring mom blogger, should know your backend (aka. your blogging platform), you should also know your hosting, by which I do not mean your mad Martha Stewart skillz, but your blog hosting. When it comes to blogging, the term ‘hosting’ means just that: [...]
So there’s still a few days of spring break remaining, and if you’re at all like me, you’ve probably run out of things to do to keep your children occupied. Here are some ideas to get through this last, long stretch, without losing your mind: 1) Have Backwards Day. Just like any other day, except [...]
Do you have a mom cave? You should totally have a mom cave. Some people – even some of our own people – doubt the mom cave, which is understandable, because ‘mom cave’ seems to be just a variation on ‘man cave’ – that smelly, wood-paneled, Barca-loungered domain of the domestic male – and who [...]
Hey, you guys! It’s FAMILY DAY this coming Monday! (Or, if you’re one of our American readers, President’s Day!) Are you, like, totally excited to have a day off with your kids, or totally stressed at the prospect of figuring out what to do with your kids, or a little bit of both? I’m both. [...]
Sure, you could just send your kids off to school with generic Valentine’s cards that you bought at the drugstore, and hand your spouse a heart-shaped box of chocolates, but that’s really missing a lot of opportunities to have some FUN with this completely useless but irresistible holiday. 1.) Let your children decorate the house [...]
I spent too many minutes trying to find a better way to describe the following Etsy shop, but the store name pretty much says it best: Franken Toys. Taking “Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose” to the awesome extreme, Ontario based artist [and fellow Canadian, holla!] Rachel Peters ‘rescues’ toys and bring them back to a life they [...]
I’m not a professional photographer. Nor am I professional filmmaker or documentarian. But I do tell stories, and a lot of those stories are about my kids, and telling stories about my kids involves using photographs and video. So I am, if you will, a Semi-Amateur Multimedia Documentary Artist and Chronicler Of Family Narratives, and [...]
Toronto October 13 - 15