On mortgages in retirement, excessive spending in kids sports and record booze sales in Ontario.

Wordless Wednesday is usually a time to post the whimsical, satirical, funny or amusing. For me, as of late, I’ve even decided it was okay to post a few “brag worthy” pictures of my own kids.  Nothing wrong with a little pride right?  …

They’re selling it on the backs of the ridiculous notion perpetuated by the likes of Canada’s Food Guide, MyPlate, and virtually every national eating guide that juice counts as a fruit. It’s called “Fruitizz”, and it’s a carbonated fruit juice being …

Analysis by the Canadian Press shows that the three of the top four Canadian charities that received the most foreign funding were Care Canada, World Vision Canada and the Canadian UNICEF Committee, all known for helping starving children, many in war …

[Full disclosure - book sent to me by the author]I’m a newly minted Jeannie Marshall fan. I first learned about Jeannie when she sent me a direct message on Twitter asking for my address so that she could send me a copy of her new book, Outside the …

If I could ask for one thing this Mother’s Day, it’s that everything you would have spent on your wife, mom, girlfriend, partner or yourself be instead donated to the moms at Ronald McDonald House. Because, and let’s be honest,…

Have you heard the news? The month of May is Mental Illness Awareness Month and as a mom of eight children – two of them suffer from mental illness I  have always been an advocate for my children, but now…

With Mothers day fast approaching it just wouldn’t be right if I didn’t write something about it.  Do you mama’s out there REALLY enjoy mother’s day??HERE IS WHAT I HATE………………..Mother’s day always seems to be fake to me – like…

Lay down some rules so you don’t end up ruing the day you let your adult children move back home.

The other day, Sebastian and Arielle were playing at their friend’s house just around the block.  They hadn’t been there very long when Sebastian came home to tell me that Arielle was riding her scooter without her helmet.  Normally I…

This weekend I have been dealing with one sick kiddo.  The stomach flu has taken over our house and frankly, it sucks.  My days have consisted of watching my baby girl cry because she feels so miserable, cooling her fevered forehead with clot…

What? Did you somehow think that the official “restaurant” of the Olympics wouldn’t use that status to encourage kids to eat there more frequently or to teach them that it’s all about moving more, and not about eating less?Apparently now if you buy a …

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I have been watching and listening with interest over the last few weeks about what issues the media outlets have been featuring, as well as what federal, provincial and First Nation politicians have been speaking about. Despite the fact that some very…

A waste of a perfectly good gym?Last week saw a press release from Konami bragging about the involvement of the American Diabetic Association in bringing their exergame Dance, Dance, Revolution to schools across the United States.Demonstrating what I w…

Or both?And does the food industry’s efforts at philanthropic “goodness” trump those very same efforts’ marketing and health “badness”?I imagine it’ll depend on the program.Today I want you to consider Coca-Cola’s involvement with Breakfast Clubs of Ca…

My current thought –  I should just write an entire book about Ryley and his crazy antics.  I am sure by now you are bored of hearing what my little devil has been up to, but yesterday I seriously could…

On Monday April 16th 2012 at 8:30am there will be a group of concerned parents and community members at the corner of Queen’s Quay and Bathurst in Toronto, holding up a banner on the green light of the intersection to ensure the safe crossing of their …

We have just finished up an Easter weekend spending time with family and having “too many” egg hunts (according to this mom).  We had a fun time running around with cousins, chatting with relatives and getting some neat little gifts to go…

GC and Rosie and I were out walking on Saturday afternoon, when we encountered the following scene.

Two boys, perhaps eleven or twelve years old, had climbed up on top of a structure by the fountain in Centrepoint Park. They were perched up there dispensing financial advice to  a somber-looking  boy of about eight, who was [...]