We Walk 4Water
Last year, Spencer West climbed Mount Kilimanjaro ...
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Crafter Q+A: Maxine Chan of Tulle Box Designs
Name: Maxine Chan Location: Vancouver, B.C. Title:...
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10 ways to set a fun-packed party picnic table for kids
The perfect party picnic table for kids Summer is ...
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Madeleines for Mother's Day
To celebrate Mother’s Day this year, go beyo...
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The Great Gatsby style inspiration
I’ll admit it, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s T...
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5 keys to clean teeth, plus win an electric toothbrush
**UPDATE: This contest is now closed. What’s...
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What moms really want for Mother’s Day + a special giveaway
UPDATE: THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. I recently posted a question on our Facebook page about Mother’s Day asking moms what they really want this year to celebrate the occasion. While some answers shocked me, most of the responses seemed to highlight three main trends. Moms want to spend more time with their adult children. [...]
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BIC back-to-school prize winner
Congrats to Melissa B. who loved back-to-school time so much, she became a teacher! Melissa has won a prize pack from BIC valued at over $150! Melissa, we’ll be in touch shortly via e-mail to arrange delivery of your prize. Thanks to everyone who wrote in with their favourite back-to-school memories — we’ve loved reading [...]
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Back to school – and a great contest from BIC!
Am I the only one who gets super-nostalgic about back-to-school time? The holidays top the list, sure, but when a slight chill settles in the air I always think back to my early school days (because those were the fun years, right? Colouring and storytelling beats exams hands-down). Our favourite memories of going back to [...]
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I feel like such a tool: Life got busy and I almost missed a beautiful thing
I almost missed something sweet and endearing the other day. I was so busy that I didn’t even see the beauty in it until later that night. In my previous post, I mentioned that my oldest daughter was celebrating her sweet 16. Well, it seems like we’ve been having endless celebrations ever since. As I was running [...]
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What would you say to your 16-year-old self?
Sometimes, I think back to my teenage days and shake my head. I can’t believe I did that. I can’t believe I worried so much about something so trivial. I can’t believe I got wrapped up in all that drama. Today, my daughter is celebrating her sweet 16. As I watch her walk through all [...]
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“You’re the worst mom ever!”
Last week, my 7-year-old daughter told me I was the worst mom ever – all because she thought I had eaten the last heart-shape Krispy Kreme doughnut. In reality, I had packed it in her lunch bag along with a little note as a special Valentine’s Day treat. Needless to say, she ruined the surprise [...]
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A love letter to winter
I feel like I’ve been waiting by the phone but you never called. I had so many plans for us. We were going to spend countless hours together. We were going to join you down on the frozen pond on Sunday afternoons. We were going to get our sleds out and giggle all the way [...]
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5 things you need to know to take better photos today
You carefully track your kids around the playroom, armed with your point-and-shoot camera, waiting for that magic moment when they’ll hold still for one second. Just. One. Second. Pleeeease? Hold it, and snap! You got the shot, only to review it a few seconds later and find that’s it’s a whirl of blur. Artistic, maybe. [...]
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6 benefits of family mealtime and 5 ways to make dinnertime easier
This week’s blog is a guest post from Wendy Graves, our senior Life editor. – Teresa Who has time to sit down for a family dinner anymore? Between two busy working parents and kids running off to hockey practice one night then piano lessons the next, how often is the entire family even home at [...]
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If I could turn back time – a letter to a new mom
The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow, But children grow up, as I’ve learned to my sorrow. So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep! I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep. (A verse from the poem Baby’s don’t keep by Ruth Hulbert Hamilton) The recent birth of a friend’s new baby and [...]
