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the happiest place on earth
Filed Under faces & places, live and learn, parenting | April 28, 2010
This April I went to Disneyland on a girls only (my mum, me and my girls – four and six) trip and I came back with so many tips, ideas and recommendations for making the trip easier so I thought I’d share. However you feel about Disneyland, I defy you not to have fun once [...]
an hour with frog and toad
Filed Under events | April 26, 2010
We’ve long been fans of Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad series which celebrates the simple pleasures of friendship so I was looking forward to taking L, our four-year-old to a matinee of Carousel Theatre’s latest production, A Year With Frog and Toad, this past weekend. But alas, the best laid plans and all that. L [...]
good for the environmint
Filed Under Uncategorized | April 22, 2010
Is it a satellite photo of the Earth? Something from Google Earth? A piece of art? Nope, it’s soap! I’ve been sitting on this photo of Environmint Soap from Ilus Elu till Earth Day. It was just so perfect!
mother of all things intelligently green
Filed Under biz tips, eco friendly, faces & places | April 19, 2010
Here’s the full q&a of our conversation with Lisa Borden of Borden Communications + Design from a recent Mamas Rock profile. Lisa has so much passion that we just had to reprint our interview in full! What inspired Borden Communications? Having developed basic teaching and communication skills as a waterski instructor for seven summers for [...]
‘Greenie’ Colouring Page
Filed Under Uncategorized | April 15, 2010
Click the image below for your ‘Green’ featuring Greenie and some yummy broccoli colouring page. Ryan Sias, Are You Eating Something Red?
earthy calendar
Filed Under eco friendly, events | April 14, 2010
Earth Day is coming up on April 22nd but I like to think about the earth on a daily basis (or at least not just once a year) so I’m using this earth month calendar from Whole Foods. It’s a downloadable PDF with ideas for every day of April. As the spring sun is showcasing [...]
gotta go?
Filed Under faces & places | April 7, 2010
What parent looks forward to potty training? Yet we’ve all got to do it. So we asked cloth diapering (and all things potty) expert, Karen Randall of the New & Green Baby Co., for ideas on making the process easier for you and your little one. And she was flush with ideas… How do you [...]
The Intimacy Of K-Y
Filed Under sponsored posts | April 6, 2010
I think the word ‘K-Y’ makes most people think lube, sex or wrestling, so this was not an easy conversation with my partner when I told him I had K-Y® Intimacy Experiment for us to do and blog about. But luckily, I have mastered the skill of persuasion and I explained to him the assignments [...]
A Call to Action for Vancouver Mamas – Speaking Out For Our Children’s Education
Filed Under parenting | April 5, 2010
Have you been hearing about the schoolboard budget cuts on the news? Us too. And even if your kids aren’t in school yet these cuts could still affect them. So here’s Shoni Field, one of the most politically savvy (and smart!) mamas we know about what’s really happening and what you can do! It has [...]
stay dry and draw
Filed Under parenting, things | April 2, 2010
It’s a very blustery, wet Good Friday here in Vancouver, so we thought these downloadable colouring pages from My Wonderful World of Fashion might be an excellent way to while away some Easter afternoon hours! We love this colouring book and the illustrations which inspire creativity in our tots and, we must admit, ourselves too! [...]
