After 7 years as parents, we are finally ready to explore Toronto without a stroller. Since we live downtown with young kids and don’t own a car, strollers have been our primary mode of transporting the kids around the city. This summer, it’s time to make the switch. The kids are ready to scoot and bike […]
How often do you hear your kids complain about a boo-boo? In our house we hear 5 complaints a day. These gripes can be anything from a scratch to a tummy ache and how I respond to each is usually with a “here, let me give it a kiss”. I rarely overthink the small stuff […]
Being a manic film buff, I really hope that my kids grow up loving movies. After discovering classics like A Streetcar Named Desire, Dr. Strangelove, and Seven Samurai in high school, I have spent my subsequent years plowing through lists of the best movies ever made, intent on watching them all. Though the kids are […]
With our upcoming travels we have been in major purge mode to get our downtown condo rental ready. During this purging session I’ve come to part with quite a few of our baby items but one in particular was very hard to hand off. Over the weekend we passed on our UPPAbaby Vista (yes the […]
We’re spending New Year’s Eve in Niagara on the Lake at my parent’s Bed & Breakfast….and there’s 6 kids here! Crazy but fun times! My parents are still in Sri Lanka but they’ve generously given us the keys to their place and so we figured we’d enjoy a chill New Year’s Eve with a few […]
As Yashy and I leave the stage of parenting centred on dirty diapers, inexplicable tantrums, and strange smells emanating from under the couch cushions, we find ourselves catering to new kinds of needs. One of those needs is fun, and we have two great toys that are making it under our tree this year. Two of […]
Shortly after Christmas last year, I began finding bowls of water in our kids’ bathroom. At first glance, this was not unusual. The Little Monkey had been giving her dolls baths for some time and the bathtub and sink area was often filled with various bowls and buckets of water with wet dolls lounging inside. […]
It’s our last weekend in the city before we head off to Sri Lanka and yes, we still put up our Christmas tree. I’m all about getting in the festive spirit and have been doing a fair bit of shopping as well. Obviously we’ve been visiting every toy store in the city hunting down those items […]
We dine out and travel often with our kids and anyone who has seen us out and about has seen the arsenal of tools I step outdoors with! When YummyMummyClub asked me to share our tips on keeping kids entertained during excursions, I had to put a video together for you and I can definitely […]
Remember last month when we took a break to have some fun? Last night was another hard one with Little Monkey and Baby Boy spending most of the late afternoon fighting with each other. Walking through the door after a hard day at the office, the last thing I wanted to hear was them whining and […]
