Buying a Quality Watch

Watches are both practical and decorative, and if you choose a prestige watch made from top quality materials then they can also be an investment, that can be passed down to future generations in your family.

Cookware Pans

There are hundreds of brands of cookware pans currently on the market, and many different types of materials including stainless steel, cast iron, aluminium and copper. It can be difficult choosing the right set of cookware pans for your kitchen, and so here is a quick guide to the three main types of quality equipment [...]

Kids Costumes Tips

Kids love dressing up, and Halloween is an excellent time to have fun with all sorts of costumes from the traditional ghosts and ghouls, to popular children’s characters like Spiderman and Power Rangers. You can buy a vast range of kids costumes ready made with all the accessorises included, but this can be expensive and [...]

Deceptively Delicious, an Aptly Titled Cookbook

Last year my husband bought me Jessica Seinfeld’s book Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food for Christmas.  Marketed to parents who need to hide vegetables in standbys like Macaroni and Cheese, and treats like brownies for their veggie resistant kids, this book is also an excellent resource for those of [...]

Second Time Around

As Halloween approaches, my 3 year old son has been begging and begging for a Ninja Turtle costume.   Finally, I told him if he could make it through the day at preschool without Mommy (the last 3 times he refused to separate), then I would get him the costume he so covets.   So yesterday-victory!  Jack [...]

Mrs. Clean Jean’s Housekeeping with Kids

Mrs. Clean Jean’s Housekeeping with Kids is full of great ideas on how to get your children to help with the household chores. It gives you strategies on how to entice your child to clean up and be responsible with duties around the house without bribing or fighting with them.

The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing

The Homework Myth points out the downfalls of homework and standardized testing in our schools. Do our children really learn from homework and does it take away from the one on one learning that our children seem to lack these days? These are some of the questions that are looked at in this book, along [...]