99 things I want to teach my kids about life

I started writing this post when I got diagnosed with cancer last year. I was so worried about not being around to teach my kids all the things I want to teach them about life.  Some are silly, some are stupid and some may just sound like common sense. I kept imagining talking to my […]

Getting ready for school with Well.ca

Summer is quickly fading away, and kids will soon be heading back to school. For me, Princess Peach will be off to school for the first time as she is starting Junior Kindergarten. She has been in daycare for the past 3 years but there are so many things I need to worry about now […]

Little Dude’s Favourite Books

My So-Called Mommy Life Little Dude reading

For a while I was posting some of Princess Peach’s favourite toys/items that she enjoys playing with. I realized that in the almost 19 months that Little Dude has been here I haven’t shared any of his picks. The funny thing is that he doesn’t have very many favourite things that aren’t his sisters. Whatever […]

6 car seat questions answered

Since having kids, I have become somewhat of a nervous driver. I’m not nervous about my driving. I’m actually quite the opposite and am very confident in my driving skills. It’s that I’m nervous about other drivers on the road. Maybe they aren’t the most skilled and confident driver or maybe they are a newer […]

6 Chanukah books for your toddler

Chanukah Hanukkah books for toddlers

Princess Peach has been anticipating Chanukkah’s arrival for weeks! Finally, tomorrow night at sunset it will start! We will be at her daycare tomorrow night welcoming the first night of Chanukkah while we watch her class sing in their Chanukkah concert. All the families will then light the menorah, eat dinner and watch the kids […]

The little balloon that could

Have you ever let a balloon slip through your fingers and wonder where it was headed? Would it get stuck in a branch of a tree? Would you travel onwards and upwards and just pop? What would happen to that perfect round oval on a string when it was let go of? Last week I […]

To my kids: why we chose daycare

Dear Princess Peach and Little Dude, You dad grew-up with a nanny. I grew-up with a nanny. In fact, my nanny that I grew-up with still lives with my parents and you consider her to be a very important person in your lives. You don’t know yet that she has known me since I was […]

My kids watch TV and I’m ok with it!

My So-Called Mommy Life television

As  a child our television was always on. There was the news in the morning, many t.v. shows on during lunch such as my favourite Jem, Oprah on our television after school, news again during dinner time and a variety of prime time shows during the evenings. The amount of televisions in my childhood home […]

I took the MAJESTA ez Flush Challenege! #giveaway

MAJESTA ez flush challenege My So-Called Mommy life

As a mom to a newly toilet trained toddler we spend LOTS of time in bathrooms. All of the bathrooms at home, bathrooms when we are out and about, bathrooms at the cottage and of course the good ol’ trees at the park 🙂 Seeing that Princess Peach has been toilet trained for a few […]

To create the next generation

When Princess Peach was 2.5 months old we had her baby naming at our synagogue. This meant that she officially received her Hebrew name, which if you were wondering is Mira Liba named after her great-great uncle and great-great aunt. After she received her Hebrew name our Rabbi made a little speech to us, as […]