The Consumer Electronic Show (CES 2014) kicked off on January 7th in Vegas this year. For those of us who love tech gadgets, it’s like Christmas is happening all over again. I was expecting the usual range of bigger, better, brighter TVs and louder headphones, but I wasn’t prepared for the ‘Mom Tech’ gadgets that are lighting up the shelves. …
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I know, I know, where I live we can’t really complain about the cold. It’s actually colder than Mars in parts of Canada, and if the Eastern coast didn’t know what a Polar Vortex was before this, they certainly do now. But that’s not to say that the gloom doesn’t get Pacific West Coast people down. And when the gloom …
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One of the best things about a chalkboard wall is how you can just doodle it up whenever the feeling takes you and then you just wipe it away. Since I’ve had my chalkboard wall in the kitchen, I’ve used it for spooky Halloween decorations, a big Thanksgiving turkey mural, and birthday banners for my kids. Christmas came and went …
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Track Santa with Norad 2013 It used to be that every year millions of children around the world would wait for Christmas Eve morning, knowing that they’d spend the day looking out the window and wondering what he was up to right at that moment. Times have definitely changed. Not only are kids these days equipped with personal laptops, iPads, …
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When my husband brought home a Fuji Instax Mini-7 camera, aka the modern day Polaroid, I will admit to thinking it was a bit lame. After all, why would anyone want those tiny pictures and what would you do with them all exactly? But one visit to Pinterest is all it took to open my eyes, and I was suddenly …
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Every year I buy a bottle of Egg Nog, and every year I glance at it as it sits in the back of the fridge and waits for someone to enjoy it. Poor old Egg Nog. I just can’t bring myself to drink you. This is why: Definition: egg·nog ?eg?näg,-?nôg/ noun noun: eggnog; plural noun: eggnogs; noun: egg flip; plural …
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I have always been someone who loves the mall. When I was young and single I’d walk that mall like nobodies business, hitting store after store and burning plastic until my signature had disappeared off my Visa and the shopping was done for the day. Although you’d be just as likely to find me lurking in the mall during the …
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Oh 3 am, I’m seriously unhappy to see you again. It’s dark, cold, and there are hours until I have to get up, but here I am staring at the ceiling again and wondering exactly how I’m going to get back to sleep. On the plus side? I’m learning a lot about old Hollywood, because that seems to be the …
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This is the story of 4 pillow pets. No, they weren’t just any old pillow pets (are there just ‘any old’ pillow pets??) – these pillow pets, Marie, Bullseye, Perry, and Tigger, are special. Special because they went on the most epic journey a pillow pet can take, starting from Downtown Disneyland, and still made it back to our place …
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I’ve always been someone who finds something I like and sticks with it through thick or thin. Take food for example – because I was brought up with simple food from the Prairies, the idea of trying things like sushi or…well anything other than meat loaf and mashed potatoes felt really insane to me after I moved to the West …
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