You Pinspire Me

I learned something extremely important this summer: there is a company called dinnerlicious!, based right here in Hamilton, Ontario, that delivers fresh food (mostly local, many organic) and easy to prepare recipes in a meal plan RIGHT TO YOUR FRONT DOOR. And it’s completely affordable! It’s it’s an absolutely reasonable price for the average family, and because dinnerlicious! delivers only the ... Read More »

This is a just-because giveaway. Just because it’s back to school. Just because it has been a long summer, and there’s finally a tiny bit of room to breathe. Just because we love you, and we want to pamper you! And also, just because I won this gift set from The Shopping Channel at an event this summer, and as ... Read More »

T-Minus 7 Days: The sneezes and coughs and snotty noses and fevers and chills of every other household in your children’s classes are coming for you! Boiron Canada‘s line up of homeopathic medicines for cough, cold and flu-like symptoms can keep your family healthy all season long. Join us for a fun-filled Twitter Party on Tue Sep 2 from 7-8pm ... Read More »

I’m not sure where my little guy found his love of pirates and ships. I don’t remember watching a lot of TV shows or movies about pirates, nor have I read him any pirate books. I suppose it’s possible that our Tall Ship adventures last summer fostered a love of ‘pirate’ ships, so he payed attention to whatever was on ... Read More »

This concept is not foreign – a ‘cheating’ recipe for cinnamon buns – but this recipe, I believe, is the absolute best. Monkey Bread often calls for canned busicuit dough and is prepared first thing in the morning, whereas Land of Nod Cinnamon Buns turn tiny frozen dinner roll balls of dough into heaven in a pan after a night ... Read More »

I never wanted to have a career – if you can believe it, in this day and age, my very un-feminist dream has always been to get married, have some babies and stay at home to raise them. As is the case with most things, the reality of being a stay at home mom has been a much less perfect ... Read More »

You know how, sometimes, memories that you had of doing something awesome as a child prove to be rose-coloured when you grow up and experience it again and find out that it really wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be? Rest assured: this is NOT one of them. We didn’t have an awful lot of money {read: we ... Read More »

First: Yes, I know. This idea is absolutely AMAZING. And I can’t take credit for it in the least. I saw the post while I was stumbling one day and landed on The Bigler’s Best Belly Pleasers post for Campfire Eclairs. My first and only reaction was I need to make these, and I need to make them RIGHT NOW. Of ... Read More »

Hey lovely readers! I’ll apologize for our lengthy absence from the blog in a later post, but what you’re about to read is a guest post from a university friend of mine, Jacqueline Melissen. I sat next to her for a couple years in concert choir, where she kept me quite entertained, and again in several English & Creative Writing ... Read More »

A few weeks ago, we hosted a neighbourhood {well, really, a ‘neighbour’} BBQ at our house. We’ve had a couple new neighbours move in over the last year, so it was great to connect with them (no one was connecting much over the winter that we just had!) and break bread (and drink beer) together! Upon hearing that I have ... Read More »