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If you watch Food Network Canada, then chances are that you know Greta & Janet Podleski of Eat, Shrink & Be Merry. They find creative ways to ‘healthify’ fabulous dishes while retaining (and usually augmenting) the YUM factor. You can imagine that when I got an email from Greta asking if I’d like to review [...]

“AXIOMATIC” – defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary as “Self-evident or unquestionable”. Until now, private school and a post secondary education have just been “axiomatic” for us.  No matter what, my husband & I would do everything in our power to send the kids to private school and then on to university.  Adjustments can be [...]

So I finished reading The Help well over a month ago, but haven’t yet had the opportunity to share my thoughts on the book you. I usually prefer to finish reading the book prior to seeing the movie, but I was unable to finish prior to going to BlogHer in San Diego where I was [...]

Over 3 months ago, thanks to a tweet by @WomenOnTheFence, I became aware of Guy Kawasaki’s latest book: Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds and Actions. I read her interview with him and knew I had to read this book.  Something spoke to me.  I made a mental note to add to my “to [...]

I just finished reading The Go-To Mom’s Parents’ Guide to Emotion Coaching Young Children by Kimberley Clayton Blaine and I will start off  by saying that I will be adding it to the list of parenting books I recommend to Moms on montrealmom.com. As someone who has worked closely with children for her entire career,  [...]

Something  I have chosen to do this year was to carve out a little bit of ‘me’ time here & there and one of the ways I have done this was to join a book club.  We recently read the book Room by Emma Donoghue and I thought that I would share my thoughts and [...]

So here we are, blog post #2 and I just feel the need to share my excitement over a gift recently given to me by three wonderful friends.  They bought me a Kindle!  I had actually been contemplating the purchase but was really on the fence as to whether or not it would be the [...]