How many cleaning products do you have under your sink? I dare you to count. If you’re number is less than five, you’re less of a sucker than I am. I’m always looking for that product to make my life easier, faster and cleaner. As a busy Mom [...]

Why, a pee-pee teepee by Beba Bean, of course!
These Canadian-made, 100% cotton cones are designed to cover the sprinkling pee-pee during diaper changes. Anyone with a son knows why that’s necessary. We were given these as a baby gift by a good friend, and the simple act of putting these into the parcel [...]

For years, I was The Girl With Bad Nails. I chewed ‘em down to the quick, and then I went to work on my ragged, dry cuticles until they were bloody. It wasn’t pretty.
Fortunately for me, and for anyone else who might ever see my hands, I trained myself out of the chewing. I can [...]

If you have children old enough to color, you are surely familiar with how quickly a pristine new box of crayons turns into a box of broken stubs and little peeled paper bits. It’s a scenario that I remember from when I was a little kid and as an adult, I find it oddly irritating.
Fortunately, [...]

The Baby Buddy Nursing Pillow was the first gift I received after my son was born. It was expected, and it didn’t come a moment too soon.
When I was about eight months pregnant, we had one of my best friends as a house guest for the weekend. She is a mother of two [...]

I have very odd feet. They’re not only big, but very wide as well. This makes it very hard to find shoes for special occasions, as most dress shoes do not come in my size, 10.5 EE. When I have a fancy dress type occasion I usually start searching for acceptable shoes weeks in advance, [...]

I’ll let you in on a little secret. My family LOVES turkey. Loves it more than any other dinner I make. My son is such a turkey fiend that he likes to weigh himself before and then after Thanksgiving dinner, just to see how much food he stuffed down his gullet. Last year was something [...]

Today I had contact with the people who make my dryer. In case you are wondering, it is an ASKO.
This was what could only be described as a sucky kind of contact. It did not leave me feeling all warm and fuzzy. It did not leave me feeling like ASKO was concerned about me or [...]