My daughter loves crafting! I love crafting with her ... sometimes. The best craft kits for kids are the ones that their parents do not hate. She has received many crafting kits that drive me insane: too much glitter, too many teeny tiny beads, not enough glue that doesn't stick anyway, and a finished product that is essentially destined for … [Read More...]
The Best Logic Games for Kids
My son is an intellectual. Forget team sports or laser tag, Cub likes books, animals, video games, superheroes and puzzles. For his 10th birthday, we took his friends to an escape room. Being the oldest of 4, he doesn't get a ton of one-on-one time with us to play board games, so when he needs to occupy himself without screens he will often pick … [Read More...]
Aurora Heat Review
Technology is great. Love the little computer that fits in my pocket. Big fan of antibiotics and vaccines. But sometimes, we humans, in our quest for bigger, better, newer and more complex goodies, forget that nature does a lot of things better. This is where Aurora Heat comes in. There are a lot of hand and foot warming products on the … [Read More...]
My Life as a Marvel Mom
I was a fangirl long before the term existed. The Babysitter’s Club and Sweet Valley High? Read them all and knew the characters as if they were my real-life besties. But The X-Files is where I really got into fandom. Taping and rewatching episodes, pouring over magazines and official and unofficial guides, cos-playing (or, “dressing up” as … [Read More...]
How to Use Marseille Soap
First off, let me say that this post is not sponsored by the Savon de Marseille Industrial Complex, or any of its subsidiaries. I am simply a girl, faced with a magical cube of olive-coloured soap, asking it, “What CAN’T you do?” Read this post to learn just some of the amazing things it can do and exactly how to use Marseille soap all over … [Read More...]
MYNI Review: Canadian Zero-Waste Cleaning Tablets
I have been on the Myni cleaning products train since before they were called Myni! If you’ve been following my social media for a while (thank you!), you may know this zero-waste cleaning tablet brand as “Filo.” They recently rebranded to Myni: same cleaning tablets, but new look for packaging, new wheat straw bottles (more on that soon) and a … [Read More...]
10 Ways to Grow More and Buy Less in the Garden
My full metamorphosis into my father is basically complete. (Although I am still keeping the mustache at bay ...) I am now into my third year of maintaining a beautiful backyard vegetable garden and my third year of taking care of that garden in the most cost-effective way possible: by reusing all the crap I refuse to throw away. I use … [Read More...]
Why Öko-Pads are the Best Reusable Menstrual Pads
This year marks my 9-year padiversary! It has now been 9 years since I made the switch to the best reusable menstrual pads on the market —Öko-Pads— and ditched the disposable panty liners I’d been using daily since puberty. Based on some simple calculations, I have prevented approximately 6500 plastic pads from hitting the landfill and saved … [Read More...]
Maman Loup Gets a Tattoo
First up: if the title of this blog post doesn’t rhyme in your head, either you’ve been pronouncing the name of my blog wrong or there’s a P on the end of tattoo that I don’t know about. Segue time! The name of my blog both rhymes with tattoo and is deeply related to my tattoo. But before I go any further … I’m almost 40, and I got my first … [Read More...]
Graco TrioGrow SnugLock 3-in-1 Car Seat Review
The Graco TrioGrow makes so many things simple. If you’ve seen the ads on your social feed, you’ll know it installs in less than a minute. And that’s true. But it also makes safely rear-facing a child well into toddlerhood—even in a smaller vehicle—simple. Most delightfully, it makes my job as a Child Passenger Safety Technician simple, … [Read More...]
Chicco MyFit Review + Coupon Code
I love when a new car seat comes on the market that solves a common problem for caregivers. The Chicco MyFit is the only combination seat* in Canada with a high enough harness height to truly accommodate taller-than-average kiddos until they’re ready for a booster seat. Plenty of kids are well served by convertible or all-in-one** car seats … [Read More...]
5 Truths about Tru Earth Laundry Strips
I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about Tru Earth Laundry Strips. This blog was founded thanks to one of my very first zero-waste lifestyle choices: cloth diapers. After nine years of consistent cloth diaper usage for four children, so many other ways to reduce waste have infiltrated my life. It’s a bit like getting a tattoo … once you … [Read More...]