I staycate. It’s in my DNA. My mother was a staycater too. We didn’t go to a cottage in the summer or spend one week a year at an all-inclusive, The Holiday Inn in Grand Island was her cottage and…
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I literally made up this dish tonight because I didn’t feel like cooking and really didn’t have time to cook. I even cut a few corners because I did had some leftover spaghetti in the fridge, so this even qualifies as…
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Being a vegetarian is a choice, but is being raised a vegetarian a choice we can make for our children? Or is raising them to eat meat a choice we can make for our children? We spoke to Kat, Mom…
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For over 20 years Cathie Mostowyk has been giving us the inside scoop on budget shopping. What started out as a column in the Toronto Star, evolved into an annually published best-selling book – The Shoestring Shopping Guide. The website shoestringshopping.com continues…
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I’m not your typical big box store shopper. I live downtown, I like to fancy myself the urbanite who shops local and can walk to the store within a few blocks for all of my needs. We have some pretty…
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I’m getting sick. My nose is running, my eyes are droopy, the tissues are tucked into my sleeve. Everyone keeps telling me to slow down and look after myself. Feel better, they say. Take some time for yourself, they say….
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My kids are older, the demands on my time are different. But working from an office across town, trying to minimize the amount of time my kids stay in daycare before and after school, my mommy guilt can get pretty…
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If you want to survive parenting, then you definitely need an outlet or escape plan from time to time. Otherwise – I promise you – you will either burn out, have a nervous breakdown or get divorced (if you’re married or…
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How many times a day do you hear “I’ve gotta pee!” And it’s contagious. If one needs to go, the other needs to go. Not at the same time. Not when it’s convenient. In fact, they have to go when…
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