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Tyze wrap up
Filed Under parenting | October 31, 2011
I’m wrapping up my free month with Tyze, and I have to say I’m seriously considering purchasing a membership. I thought I’d share with you my reasons: Privacy: Yes, this one is first on my list. The more I reflect on it, the more I realize how much I had held back online because of [...]
keeping it clean and green
Filed Under contests, eco friendly | October 26, 2011
This fall, the clever folks over at Green Works® are hosting a green clean challenge. Their goal is to give several homes across Canada a deep sparkling clean using Green Works® line of eco friendly products. Green Works® products started out as an idea among a handful of cleaning enthusiasts at The Clorox Company. This [...]
private-Tyze
Filed Under parenting | October 26, 2011
A recent article on Mashable confirmed what I’ve heard anecdotally so many times: what you do online can have very real impacts in the offline world. It’s been shown that more than 90 percent of recruiters have made hiring decisions based on how the applicant presents themselves through social media. This got me thinking: how [...]
trick-or-mall-treat
Filed Under events | October 23, 2011
We’ve collected a plethora of Halloween-y editorial this month including our Halloween HQ, a handy listing of all the spooktacular Halloween fun we could find around Vancouver, and our list of Pumpkin Patches. And it’s not over yet, we have still more coming this week but we’ve also collected this listing of malls around town [...]
getting on top of my schedule
Filed Under parenting | October 18, 2011
If you’ll forgive the pop reference, this week was a classic ‘Oops, I did it again.’ I arranged for my older son to go to his grandmothers after school on Friday, so I could book a therapy appointment for my younger son, followed by 3 hours of respite for me. We were all looking forward [...]
Tyze it all together
Filed Under parenting | October 15, 2011
When my boys were about 3 and 4 years old, my mom made a comment that I wasn’t just a parent, I was also a full-time administrative assistant to my family. And she was right. With two special needs children, there are times when we’ve had 5 appointments in any given week. And if that [...]
just another manic month: tech tuesday
Filed Under tech tuesday | October 4, 2011
For me September went by in a whirl of trying to adjust to a new schedule, juggling work and gradual entry, helping tired kids get used to a new routine and seeing my to do list get bigger and bigger as I seemed to get less and less done. Now I feel slightly confident in [...]
yam love
Filed Under events, faces & places | October 3, 2011
Late last week as part of Culture Days I was invited down to CBC Vancouver for a Kids CBC tweetup. As an acknowledged CBC fan (or nerd) I couldn’t resist this opportunity. Alas my kids were in school so I had to attend kid-free, but there was a nice little preschool mob belonging to local [...]
