Family Health

I recently had a speaking engagement at a club I co-organize called Home Essentials. Home Essentials meets every month or two for great conversation, recipes and homemaking ideas for women to better enjoy their family. I know “homemaking” might sound cheesy, but it’s really nice to have a group to…

This morning, I had the pleasure of sitting down on the Breakfast Television couch with Derick Fage to chat about feel-good gift giving. I’m all for gift giving and making my kids feel extra special on Christmas morning, but I can admit, and so can they, that we have way…

The other day I found a great musician online and wanted to show the boys, so we watched a couple of music videos. Then in the last one, there was a scene with some old men and women in a nursing home, dancing. The nurse comes in to calm them…

Today I spent most of my day volunteering at my boys’ elementary school in the library. I’ve been volunteering for years and I’m happy to do so. But I can tell you that today was a record high temperature for September and the school is not equipped with a/c. It…

Working with TELUS has allowed me to try out products that I normally might not have known about. It’s been such a fun run, getting to know gadgets that are sold in TELUS stores across Canada. I am a real gadget mama, and I love new tech so much that…

There are few things on this earth that bother me to such a degree that it makes it impossible for me to sleep, work, or eat well. I can roll with the punches, even if I don’t want to. I can settle for a change in plans, even though it’s…

“The sun isn’t that strong right now, there’s shade where I’m sitting, I’m just jumping in the water to refresh myself, I won’t be in the sun long”…and the list goes on. When it comes to putting on sunscreen, it’s easy to play the excuse card, especially these days. I…

You know how some things just seem to have the best timing? This is about a moment that came at the right time for my son. As a family, we are pretty healthy and active. We eat right, play sports and get outside as much as possible. Whether it’s winter…

Although I’m not a blogger that writes about politics or news reports in general, I just couldn’t step through the obvious tragic event that the world is tuned into the last couple of days. I couldn’t continue my scheduled posts about the holidays and fun things without addressing this. Paris…

It’s a strange thing, really, this Halloween thing. I used to love it as a teenager. It was a moment of liberty, filled with parties, late nights, friends and scary costumes. We used to decorate the house with handmade tombstones on the front lawn (before they were available at every…