Green living

Are children expensive? It depends. If you deck your baby out in the Armani Baby range of clothes, then sure: kids are expensive. Kids are as expensive as you you make them But there's a lot to be said for the argument that kids are expensive as you make them. For example, when I had my...

It's one of those Mom Mysteries, how the kids manage to get their poop in those far away places I find it. They really are the champions of Projectile Pooping. So obviously, I think it's a damn shame Projectile Pooping isn't part of the Olympics, because I really fancy their chances for that golden plack!...

The life of an accident-prone teen is a struggle. Reminiscent of a bull in a china shop, your teen falls, trips, knocks over and runs into things on a daily basis. Let’s just say teens are far from graceful.  Every day, you wonder where they got it — it certainly wasn’t from you. If your...

When the sun came out in March I decided it was time to get rid of all the winter paraphernalia. So I took all our winter coats, scarves, mittens and tights and put them away. And I told them: 'See you next year!'  Then it became cold again But then April happened. And temperatures went...

We have two bathrooms in our house. It seemed like a good idea at the time. After all, we're a family of seven. You don't want to have 'to go' and have nowhere to go, now do you! But we might as well have only one bathroom. Because the kids don't want to use the...