By: Joleen Dilk Salyn Co-sleeping. It’s a concept sometimes loaded with controversy. However, many families choose to do it-whether it is pre-planned and intentional, or reactive and out of desperation. Regardless of the reason, if you are at the point where you are ready to…
Read More...Celebrating 6 Years
It’s been 6 years! On March 30, 2008 I held our very first Beauty Basics at Sephora event in West Edmonton Mall. We enjoyed private shopping, beauty demonstrations and the inside scoop on best products. I loved everything about that event and it fueled many…
Read More...Five Things: Links We Love
1 | Melissa & Doug Toys We love Melissa & Doug toys, and their puzzles, games and toys are discounted on Zulilly starting today! 2 | Things women do that men don’t know about A few of these are exactly right: 20 Things…
Read More...Creating a Portable Art Kit
By: Sharilyn Kuehnel Summer and road trips are just around the corner Our family spends quite a bit of time exploring the corners of this fair province of ours and with this in mind I felt a bit of a refresh of our travel art box…
Read More...Spring 2014: Introducing our new team of Feature Writers
WOW! What a response we had to our casting call. After pouring over all the applications… we’ve narrowed the list down to TWELVE. Twelve inspiring mamas. Twelve women that will affect you, change you, make you think and make you laugh. It wasn’t easy to…
Read More...Cloth Diapers: My Experience
I have two sons, Jonathan and Ben, ages 6 and 1. With Jonathan, we used disposables, and Ben was our cloth diaper baby. I want to mention here that this is not a dedicated/sponsored post, and I am neither for or against cloth diapers. I’m sharing my…
Read More...Chevrolet Safe and Sure Car Seat Installation Workshop
By: Lee-Anne Ekland I didn’t know it but my son’s car seat wasn’t installed correctly. Thankfully I found out before it was too late. Who’s to blame? My tired mama brain, of course. Car seat safety is probably one of the most important things when…
Read More...Five Things: Links We Love
This week’s Links We Love are all here … 1 | This baby’s morning wake-up routine is the cutest thing ever. Baby boy shakes bum every morning when waking up to music. 2 | Let’s Take The Holidays Down A Notch Every Holiday seems to…
Read More...Fitness for moms: 5 Tips to Fit it in
By Kelly Duran One of the biggest changes motherhood brought was that I no longer had time to focus on myself. It was just too easy to put all of my focus on my kids, marriage, home, work, etc. Until the day came when I…
Read More...Breastfeeding: When it works and when it doesn’t
By: Dr. Unjali Malhotra We published a couple of articles about breastfeeding these past few weeks and the conversations have been quite heated at times. Healthy debate is always a good thing as we know but is it helping inform us in ways that are beneficial?…
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