Made in Alberta Muffins

Ok, any dear readers of mine who have an amazing muffin recipe, savoury or sweet, I’d love to hear about it! I’m thinking about entering a baking contest, not that I’m an amazing baker or anything. I do love to bake though and this contest is for muffins made solely from Alberta ingredients (awesome idea!!) [...]

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#TwilightYEG Charity Event in Edmonton

A charity tweetup is taking place here in Edmonton on May 20 – thanks to @ZoomJer! #TwilightYEG (yes that’s a hashtag for you non-twitter folks!!) sounds like a ton of fun and I personally am planning to attend. I bought two tickets actually, and now am deciding (or waiting for them to decide actually, lol) [...]

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Baby Shopping Frugal Style

Having a baby can be seriously expensive if you aren’t careful or don’t have access to a big support network of friends to share items with you! I was the first of all my friends to be pregnant (and for that matter I had three children before any of my friends had even one!!!) I [...]

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Canadian Maternity Experiences

Just read on Twitter about this Canadian Maternity Experiences survey and then went on over to both PhDinParenting’s blog and Ann Douglas’ blog. And of course I have to participate!
First, let me just note that I’m from Alberta – a province where we have not had midwifery funding (I think supposed to soon or maybe [...]

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Value in Twitter

I have had a crazy couple of days (good crazy though!) Last week I was interviewed by @carriedoll, an anchor for CTV Edmonton, about how I’ve used Twitter to grow my virtual assistant business. You should be able to watch the video here (and watch also for @mastermaq, who also shared someĀ  Twitter information – [...]

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Holiday Happiness

I know I talked recently about having a plan for working when your children are on break. I have to say though, that right now I’m really, really glad for the school break!! It is brutally cold here in the Edmonton region (temperatures in the -25 to -30 range pretty much the last week and [...]

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