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where am I now: still under construction
Filed Under faces & places, fitness | January 17, 2012
Last Spring I wrote a piece about my experience with the E.A.T! program by Lisa of Bodies Under Construction. When I wrote it, the course was half over, but a new one is about to begin, so it seemed like a great time to let you know where I am, almost a year later, and [...]
lights, camera, christmas!
Filed Under events, faces & places | December 15, 2011
My son, the giant toddler M, is two and is just slowly embracing the concept of Christmas, Santa and all the pomp and circumstance. I couldn’t be more excited. So it was with great fervor that my family (giant toddler M, unnaturally tall husband M and myself…taller than average Erin) headed out to the Van [...]
lets all go to the lobby
Filed Under contests, events, faces & places | November 24, 2011
Does someone in your life have Bieber Fever? Are your kids driving you a wee bit crazy because they are trapped inside with the cold weather? Well Netflix Canada can help you with both of these problems! Netflix Canada is currently streaming Justin Bieber’s hit film Never Say Never exclusively and they are celebrating with [...]
banjo slingin’ & old time singin’
Filed Under events, faces & places | November 11, 2011
Professor Banjo, also known as Paul Silveria, is a banjo player, square dance caller and all ’round children’s entertainer, who has recently transplanted himself from Portland to Vancouver. In Portland, he had carved out a career for himself as an old time musician playing at Farmer’s Markets, in schools, children’s stores, and at other family [...]
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 [...]
that was the summer we went to kellerman’s…
Filed Under faces & places, guest bloggers | July 19, 2011
We were recently invited to check out Harrison Hot Springs Resort & Spa, so we sent our intrepid Shoni Field with her family to do a little exploring: The line popped into my head as we walked through the lobby of the Harrison Hot Springs Resort. Not that Johnny Castle was there to teach me [...]
everything old is new again
Filed Under contests, faces & places | May 12, 2011
I am a bit of a clotheshorse. In past lives I have worked in a variety of high end fashion establishments as a ‘style consultant’ (or whatever the title du jour was). I also have held office jobs that entailed suits, skirts and my always loved high heeled shoes. My closet holds blazers, skirts and [...]
royal wedding, high tea and curly wurlies
Filed Under faces & places | April 27, 2011
Despite my British heritage (that’s why we use “mum” in our editorial over “mom” just so you know) I’m not into the upcoming royal wedding enough to actually get up early to watch it. But I do have a coterie of girlfriends who are on dress discussion alert for Friday. And when I stumbled across [...]
park it (at the playground)
Filed Under faces & places | April 14, 2011
We all probably recognize this firetruck from Stanley Park, but what about other parks and playgrounds for our tots? We’ve been asked a few times for our opinions of all the neighborhood parks with playgrounds about town, but even if we divvied up the list and the whole yoyo crew went about town from park [...]
king tut, funky tut
Filed Under events, faces & places | April 11, 2011
I really have to get past my love of bad ’70s music (this time, usually it’s the ’80s), especially in blog post titles but it seems you can grow out of the ’70s and ’80s but not the music…all of which is a long winded lead in to my review of Carousel Theatre’s newest (and [...]
