Period undies always confused me. Wouldn’t you want to change them multiple times a day? But period undies are typically designed to be worn all day, with many brands selling various absorbency levels. That said, even if a pair were absorbent enough for my very heavy flow, I really prefer to freshen up over the…
I am well known as an advocate of French-language education on my blog and social media. I have a Bachelor of Arts in French and a Bachelor of Education in high school second-language education. I also have a Diploma in Translation Studies but I have no idea where it is! Perhaps my biggest qualification is…
Are you looking for easy card games for kids and adults? Games that you can be up and playing in minutes without slogging through a novel-length instruction manual? Games with quick rounds so nobody is getting bored and everyone is engaged? SAME. In theory, I enjoy playing board games and card games. In practice, I…
This is the first time I am working with my daughter, now age 7.5, to make a list of book recommendations. These are her current favourite book series for grade 2! My son started reading to himself in both French and English when he was 6, which sparked a series of blog posts and an…
Ethical brands are my favourite brands! I have had the pleasure of working with many brands since I launched this modest little blog as a new mom with one little wolf cub. Three more cubs and almost a decade later, I have seen companies launch and fail, and companies launch and truly take off. I’ve…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
My name is Lindsay and I am a 40-year-old mama of four trying to live an eco-friendly, budget-friendly life! I am a substitute teacher and Child Passenger Safety technician in Calgary, Alberta. Join me on my adventures!
