I remember being a teenager, as shocking as that might be to my children. I remember the need to fit in, the curiosity of things I had yet to experience, the fear that I might disappoint my friends, my family, myself. It’s an interesting time of rule following and rule breaking, self-discovery and self-loathing. I …

Planning birthday parties used to be my thing. I would have every thing organized well in advance, I would push myself to outdo the year before. Parties just got bigger and better every year, and I got more and more stressed every year. The biggest stress was always Ethan’s birthday, because he is a December …

As someone who has not been unemployed since I was 15 (that’s over 25 years ago,) and has never (until very recently) been fired, I’ll tell you, it is a totally new sensation. Before I continue with this story, I would like to state that I understand that firing an employee is a business decision, …

My house is a mad house at the best of times, but weekday mornings have to be the worst. I have never really liked any time before 8am, not even when I only had myself to worry about. Now I have four small people to chase after and make sure they are dressed, fed and …

I have never identified as a feminist, until recently. In my mind, being a feminist meant taking part in man bashing; I’m not that woman. I couldn’t wrap my head around other people’s ideals, didn’t care to act the way people seemed to think a feminist acts. I had a lot of notions in my …

Are you ready? Get out your pom poms, make some signs, grab your cowbell, whatever it is you do when you cheer for your favourite team, because Team Canada will soon be competing in Sochi! The Winter Olympic Games are only 19 days away! As someone who worked in sports television for 20 years, there …

Our kids are 13, 10, 8, and 3. Other than an RESP Tom’s parent’s have for them, we haven’t done a whole lot of saving for their education, and that kind of freaks me out. Combined, there are a whole lot of college/university years ahead of us! Sure, I have talked to people about what …

Remember when you were a kid, and your parents would get a new appliance, how much fun it was to make the box into something cool?  I remember when my parents got a new fridge, my friends and I thought we had hit the mother load! A box that big can be anything from a …

Growing up, there weren’t a lot of rules in our house. We could come and go as we pleased, we could eat what we wanted, and we could eat it wherever we wanted… not so in my house now. Because of that, my kids think it’s super cool to eat in the tv room, so …

From the very moment I saw that grainy image of a tiny human forming inside my body, and I heard that small pulsating heart, motherhood changed me.  I was no longer just me, but we. As my belly grew, so too did the feeling of we. With each flutter in my tummy and every sleepless …