Baby Trekker Giveaway

We walk every single day. If we don’t, someone will go a little squirrelly. It could be me, it could be the child, but whoever it is, it will not be pretty. Now that we live in Victoria, this is easily done. I’m still amazed that we can spend two hours at the park in [...]

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Craft Caravan giveaway

My son is a bit young for crafts, but I was once I child myself, as well as a babysitter extraordinaire and Grade Five teacher. So I know crafts, people. And when I discovered this lovely little Vancouver-based business called Craft Caravan that sends kids’ crafts kits straight to your home every month, I said [...]

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Wee Warmers giveaway

Did you get the Flashdance clue? Of the many new and exciting baby items to come on the market in recent years, baby leg warmers are up there! And this week we have a giveaway courtesy of Wee Warmers. Wee Warmers is the brainchild of yet another amazing Canadian mompreneur, who makes these adorable little [...]

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Aplaydia giveaway: it may be your family’s solution to holiday cabin fever

I may have spent most of my life in Nova Scotia, but a few years on the West Coast made me both soft and predisposed to irritating my East Coast friends with comments like, “We go to the playground all year round, and can have a vegan picnic on the grass in February!” Actually, I’ve [...]

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winners and stuff to win, courtesy of Nurtured

And we have winners! Meghan Rushton Ackerman is the winner of a copy of The Polar Express from Woozles, and Stephanie Gorman has won a diaper clutch from Pippalily. Congratulations! As for the top five books to read aloud, based on your suggestions, it was impossible to narrow down. So I’ve made a special holiday [...]

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Now, let’s talk about something you DO need! (AND something you can win!)

My Pippalily sling was one of my top five favourite baby shower gifts. Here are a couple of lil’ ditties that help illustrate why. Story #1: My son was born in August. When he was one week old, we decided that it was time to break out of our cavern (as the bedroom, with the [...]

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Kicking off December with a Woozles giveaway!

Back in October, my family and I were in Banff. My husband and I once lived there for a summer quite a few years ago. When we lived there, my favourite store was the Banff Book and Art Den. It was a Banff mainstay. The place was magic. It was all wood beams and good [...]

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