Earlier this month I spent a week in Mexico with my two kids. Like any adventure, it was full of precious moments, a few meltdowns and many life-lessons, including:
It’s January and our social and news feeds are full of ways to be better parents and better humans in 2018.
My kids and I made these simple unicorn jars for some friends and neighbours earlier this week. We filled them with our favourite treats including candy cane brownies and unicorn bark and they were a huge hit.
Of all the Christmas traditions our family celebrates, the Kindness Elves are my favourite.
Just like Elf on the Shelf, a Kindness Elf is sent directly from the North Pole. They arrive on our doorstep December 1
If you can already feel the “how the eff am I going to get everything done” anxiety reverberating through your body now is the time to commit to not losing your you-know-what this Christmas; to enjoying the season instead of merely surviving it.
Right now in Canada there are around 30,000 children in need of a permanent home, including more than 5,000 in Ontario alone.
30,000 is the entire population of towns like Stratford, Orillia and Orangeville. It’s everyone in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
One of my favourite things to talk about is adoption, and one of my favourite things about adoption is Gotcha Day.
In late August a viral video surfaced online of a woman named Dena Blizzard rampaging through Target, pledging to buy anything and everything her kids needed for school.
It began with the idea of getting my kids more engaged in philanthropy.
This summer, our family conducted a Freaky Friday, reverse Leave it to Beaver type of experiment.