Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
My family and I are on a ski vacation, less than an hour away from our home. We had discussed going somewhere HOT, but once we crunched the numbers for our family of five to get away, it worked out to one month’s salary. Mine and my husband’s salary combined. After a morning spent debating [...]
Today, my kid starts school. She’s two and a half. And she’s ready. She’s very, very, very ready. She watches and thinks and learns, her little brain working furiously behind her eyes as she stares fixatedly at me whenever I try to thwart her plans for world domination. It’s time. She needs more than I [...]
We have really been enjoying our winter break. I mean, really enjoying our winter break. In fact, winter break 2011/2012 may go down as being one of the best winter breaks we’ve ever had. Naw, we’re not spending it in Hawaii or on a picturesque mountain somewhere – heck, we haven’t even gone into the [...]
It was a beautiful sunny long-weekend afternoon. The roads were busy, but not abysmally so. When I drove past the first car on the side of the road that appeared to be having a toddler breakdown, I was sympathetic. The Daddy was holding the two year old up, hovering his naked butt a foot above [...]
10 days. 10 days I am in England. Without my child. It’s a really long story. We meant to go for a month and take her. I envisioned walking through Hyde Park with her in the stroller; taking her in to Mamas and Papas on Regent street and buying adorable little outfits; taking her on [...]
If you have a blog, or even just read blogs, you’ve probably heard of a little conference called BlogHer. This is my fourth year attending it and while the size of it has grown exponentially, my reason for coming is the same now as it was then: to see my friends and have face time [...]
I don’t know what I’m doing most of the time. As a parent, I mean. (Oh, who am I kidding. I don’t know what I’m doing at pretty much anything.) I muddle through most days, and up to now, as long as everyone’s alive by bedtime I often consider the day a raging success. But [...]
I like getting away from the daily grind as much as anyone. I really enjoy solo trips away with my husband whenever we can coerce/bribe someone into watching our three kids, and he and I both take solo excursions away with our friends (See you at BlogHer?). In the past few years I have also [...]
This past spring my husband informed me that our oldest son was old enough to go to sleep away camp. In fact, he could have gone last summer, had we known he was allowed to register. How is that possible? I couldn’t get my head around the fact that my son, my baby, could be [...]
It appears to be the season to be on the road. Her Bad Mother is paddling around in the middle of lakes, Motherbumper is nomming on lobster somewhere nearby and I am sitting in a hotel room in Halifax. (I am not, however, finding the Heavenly Beds so heavenly. Frankly I’m finding them rather hellish.) [...]
It’s Canada Day today. Most Canadians will be celebrating by drinking beer and watching fireworks and stalking the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Me, I’m celebrating by going off the grid. Well, going mostly off the gird. As little off the grid as I can manage. I am going to be clinging to the grid [...]
So, last week I packed up the family and we went to Orlando, Florida, where we did NOT go to Disney World (that was last month), but instead went to Universal Orlando Resort, which, truth be told, is not a place that I would have ever really thought of going, except for maybe to go [...]
When friends of ours from London, ON took a recent trip to Toronto, their boys, ages six and three, were ecstatic at the idea of playing in the hotel’s pool. But when their mom, Elaine brought the boys into to the women’s change room to get into their swim trunks, a sign she saw on [...]
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 [...]
If you like Russell Brand, or even if you don’t like Russell Brand but DO like things like the Easter Bunny and Easter Bunny-related movies and post-structuralism and discussions of infinity as these relate to mommy bloggers, you should check out this interview over at Her Bad Mother. An excerpt: Russell Brand: ‘Mummy Bloggers’ sounds [...]
Toronto October 13 - 15