So, the new thing for week four was not for me, directly anyway. We’ve been on this potty train for MONTHS now and I’d really like to disembark. Seriously. Can I get off this train?! The Boy is doing ok with the potty training. He rarely has accidents anymore, but he still leaves it until [ Read More ]
Archive for January, 2011
Categories: 52 new in 2011, Home - Slideshow, Rant, Reviews
Nine months ago I wrote this rant. I’m reposting on this new blog because the government is still sitting on an over-a-decade-old curriculum and I want my children to be properly educated and armed with knowledge. Yes, they will get this at home, but the school needs to reiterate it. The older they get the [ Read More ]
Categories: Home - Slideshow, Rant
Last week’s new thing was something simple yet again. I tried an idea I saw on Twitter. I served the kids their snack in a muffin tray. There was a mix of healthy and not-so healthy snacks. The great thing was they ate everything! Eggs, blueberries, carrots, cheese cubes, cereal etc were eaten just as [ Read More ]
Categories: 52 new in 2011, Home - Slideshow
So far this year, courtesy of Feld Entertainment, we’ve seen Disney on Ice: Mickey and Minnie’s Magical Journey and Disney Live! Mickey’s Rockin’ Roadshow. We’ll also be seeing Monster Jam this weekend. The Boy is SUPER excited about that one! I love taking my kids to these shows. They aren’t the type of shows I’d [ Read More ]
Categories: Home - Slideshow, Reviews
Since my kids watch way more tv than I ever thought we would allow, I thought I’d give my take on some of the options out there. This post takes a look at Dinosaur Train. Dinosaur Train is all kinds of cute. As the parent of a five year-old girl who has been interested in [ Read More ]
Categories: Home - Slideshow, Reviews
Yup. Monster Jam is coming to Toronto. Saturday, Jan 22 and Sunday, Jan 23 awesome, huge, monster trucks will come roaring into the Rogers Centre. Why am I excited? Well, two years ago I had never even heard of Grave Digger and I wouldn’t have been able to name any monster trucks. Then… my son [ Read More ]
Categories: Contests, Home - Slideshow, Reviews
Right now someone is crawling into bed after a 12 hour shift, just to have to wake up in 5 hours to do it all over again. Right now an 8 year old is looking in the mirror and thinking she’s too fat. Right now a young man is speeding along the highway, thinking he’s [ Read More ]
Categories: Home - Slideshow, Rant
No? What about this? Not really? What about now? Does it feel weird at all? And how about this? Did any of those make you feel not-quite-right? Why are we more ok with these? In our society, for some reason, we are more comfortable with girls playing with trains, cars, machines and dinosaurs than we [ Read More ]
Categories: Home - Slideshow, Rant
By the end of 2011 that will be 52 new things. Not bad for someone who has gotten pretty set in her ways. This idea is kind of an afterthought. It wasn’t really a new year’s type thing or a big, dramatic undertaking. I saw a tweet in my twitter stream about someone who was [ Read More ]
Categories: 52 new in 2011, Home - Slideshow, Rant
Do you judge the mom whose toddler is throwing a tantrum in the grocery store? What if she buys him something to make the tantrum stop? Do you judge the mom whose kid looks way too old to be having a tantrum, yet is completely melting down at the mall? Do you judge the mom [ Read More ]
Categories: Home - Slideshow, Rant
