The most common question I'm asked — after what is your favourite cocktail and how is George Clooney in bed — is, what is your fave social media outlet? Hands down, it is Instagram. I love taking, viewing, and sharing pictures. I love that a simple app can connect you visually with things, people, and places all over the world. I was recently named as one of Canadian Living's 10 cool, funny, crafty moms to follow on Instagram and was as thrilled as if I'd walked (or run) up the …
Each week, the 10 best blogs I’ve read that week will be listed here.
GROUNDED: 5 Tips to Help with a Fear of Flying
I have AVIOPHOBIA , ACROPHOBIA, CLAUSTROPHOBIA and AGORAPHOBIA, the fear of flying, heights, small spaces, and not being able to escape. Throw in a few dozen snakes and Samuel Jackson and you have a hit action movie. You can imagine how fun it is to sit beside me on a plane. This list of FEARS from Wikepedia accurately sums up what goes through my head every time I squeeze my ass into a far TOO SMALL airplane seat. The fear of flying may be created by various other phobias and …
Top Ten Back to School Movies
There are curled, dried up maple leaves on my driveway this morning and I can hardly smell sunscreen on my kids anymore. There's been no sticky burnt marshmallow crust in my hair for almost a week and every store I go to has aisles full of sullen children crying over pencil crayon displays. Summer's all but done, and come this time just a few days from now, it'll all be a frozen margarita-soaked memory. So, buh-bye Summer 2014! We had a decent run, but the fun's gotta stop sometime, and that …
Top Ten Christmas Apps
I am currently in the process of Christmas-fying everything. The kitchen, the living room, the front hall, my phone.....yes, even my phone. I am a Christmas freak and so I say "why not?". Christmas is only here for a short time, so if you're like me, yule love these Top Ten Christmas Apps. Christmas!! - Free This fun app comes with a Christmas countdown, an Advent calendar, jokes, wallpaper, and even a gift list. It's a Christmas extravaganza on your phone. Shave Santa - …
Ten Posts March 17, 2013
Last week we went out for dinner and tried to choose the best option possible for fast food. We settled in on Thai. How bad can it be right? Rice noodles, chicken, veggies — sounds perfect. Except it wasn't. Later that night, I decided to look up nutritional content on Thai Express Pad Thai. Let's just say we are NEVER going back there again. And so the week continued to go like that with my eye being drawn to post after post about heart health. It's kind of a hot topic in this house right …
