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Your thoughts regarding VoIP telephone, please? 26 Aug 2013 | 04:57 pm
I have been waffling over switching to Rogers “Home Phone” service for more than a year now. Under the current offer, we stand to save about $45 per month for the first two years, and about $20 per mo...
Another couple of weeks in pictures 24 Aug 2013 | 05:20 pm
This summer is clearly too jam-packed full of fun for me to be able to keep up with my weekly photo posts! Here’s another couple of weeks in photos. These two weeks have had a definite farm flavour t...
Fisher-Price favourite: Little People! 24 Aug 2013 | 04:54 pm
After a couple of years of working with and talking about Fisher-Price toys, it’s clear that while they have a diverse lineup of products and toys the one that most resonates with people is the Little...
Wordless Wednesday: Portraits of sunflowers 21 Aug 2013 | 07:44 pm
There’s a fun project behind this series of sunflower photos, which I can’t wait to share as soon as details are finalized. In the interim, though, look how much fun one girl with two cameras, a step...
And you thought the time she enrolled the boys in dance camp was bad… 19 Aug 2013 | 07:57 pm
I was pleased with our choices around summer camp this year. When I was too slow to catch spots in the local city-organized camp in Manotick, I was forced to look for a camp outside the neighbourhood ...
Family movie night under the stars 17 Aug 2013 | 05:41 pm
The very same week we were having our new treehouse built, the fine folks at Epson sent an e-mail out of the blue wondering if I’d like to test drive a neat new home theatre projector. I immediately i...
A new Ottawa toy store and a giveaway! 11 Aug 2013 | 06:32 pm
Way back in the spring, I was invited to the grand opening of Ottawa’s newest toy store, Mastermind Toys. Do you know them? I found out that one of my all-time favourite toy stores in my home town of ...
This week (or two) in pictures: Part two of a rambly catch-up post 10 Aug 2013 | 05:13 pm
Toward the end of July, I had the pleasure of back-to-back portraits on the porch: one little guy dropped by for pictures to celebrate his first birthday, and then a few days later a lovely lady honou...
Summer staycation: Choose a direction for a fun family day trip from Ottawa 7 Aug 2013 | 05:46 pm
No big vacation plans for you this summer? No problem! Whether you want to go north, south, east or west, here’s four suggestions for great little family-friendly day trips that you can take from Otta...
This week in pictures: A long and rambly catch-up post (part one of two) 3 Aug 2013 | 05:11 pm
Oops! Didn’t I used to post a weekly post with all the photos of the day? I got a little sporadic with the daily photos around the end of June and although I’ve been posting most days, I kind of forgo...