If you are a mama of my generation, when you think of a toy telephone, the only toy that will pop into your head is the Fisher-Price toy rotary phone, right? Fisher-Price toys are synonymous with our era. I can honestly say I was a Fisher-Price kid. The other day I searched “vintage Fisher-Price” (sigh) and sure enough, every childhood memory I had came rushing straight back to me when I saw the toys I used to have.

Have you ever tried this parlor trick? I found it, as I find a lot of cool things, on Pinterest. My kids were fascinated with it! The natural candle is made from the skin of a Clementine orange with the center skin inside. All you have to do is add some olive oil inside and then once you light the skin, it will burn until the olive oil runs out.

When I found out Oprah was coming to Montreal, I have to admit I had a tinge of excitement. I say tinge because as much as I would like to see Oprah, the sheer volume of others who would want to see her too kind of cancelled me out. Not because I don’t think I am good enough or worthy enough, just because I wasn’t going to wait in line or online for tickets, and I didn’t have a great big budget to get tickets (good tickets started close to $300).

For those of you who read my blog regularly, you may remember my posts on the Ultimate Blog Party over the past three years. This online blogging event essentially catapulted my desire to really excel in blogging and create my charity event which is now in its third year.

KLM? No, I am not promoting the airline with this post (although, that would be nice!).

I am participating in a photo sharing meme by Maple Leaf Mommy and Mom Vs TheBoys. Each week, we have been sharing one letter of the alphabet at a time, starting with A, of course.

It’s been some time since I have written something here at Ask Mama MOE. It is absolutely not for lack of subject matter, great news updates and really interesting reviews and giveaways. These are all things that are waiting for my attention, and will be so exciting to share with you, my readers.