You know that moment when you get hooked on a TV show? When you decide that PVR’ing it simply will not do and you need to watch it with the rest of the country every week? For me, that moment came within the first 15 minutes of The Blacklist. I hadn’t watched the premier, but…
Saving Mr. Banks: now available on Blu-ray
The movie: Saving Mr. Banks (Disney) When it was available: March 18, 2014 What it’s about: Once upon a time, a snarky old Aussie-turned-Brit wrote a book about a nanny/nursemaid named Mary Poppins. Walt Disney’s daughters fell in love with the story and he promised to make it into a film. The one problem? The author (P.L….
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana
Big B and I went to Las Vegas for our honeymoon in 2007. It was a wild idea: get married in The Bahamas and honeymoon in Vegas. Kind of backwards, but we’re weird like that. It was January, and I was totally unprepared for how frigidly cold it would be. I mean, it’s the freakin’…
Mooms & Soof nursing tunic (guest review)
Guest reviewer Janet Butler-McPhee is a proud Nova Scotian and not-so-recent transplant to Toronto (but confesses her heart still belongs to NYC). She is the proud mom of one sweet baby girl, and currently on maternity leave from her non-profit communications work in HIV and human rights. While not planning crazy silly birthday parties for her now-one-year-old, Janet is…
RAVPower Luster 3000mAh External Battery (mini-review)
THE PRODUCT The RAVPower Luster 3000mAh External Battery. THE GOOD In short, it totally works. Like, really well. I keep it with me at all times now because my iPhone 5’s battery is becoming more pitiful by the day. So, even though I still have 13 per cent of my battery life yet and my lovely…
COVERGIRL truMAGIC Skin Perfector and your #covermoment
Since becoming a P&G Mom, I’ve wrestled with how many of the product giant’s brands I can authentically promote. To their credit, both P&G and its PR agency have been beyond understanding and accommodating. One brand I have been really surprised by and have no trouble endorsing is COVERGIRL. I’ve liked every product so far…
LaVigne Organic Skincare: be ingredient-aware!
I’m not just a product junkie when it comes to gear. I am an equal-opportunity consumer. Skincare and makeup are also on my list of Things That I Have Too Much Of. I know it’s a problem, but I love comparing brands and trying new products that promise to make any part of my face…
Rowenta Valet Steam
I don’t iron. I suspect in my thirty-eight-and-a-half years of life I have ironed seven times. It’s not that I don’t know how, I just don’t like to. And the clothes I tend to buy that require ironing also normally require dry cleaning, so the ironing part is taken care of. But my husband’s shirts won’t…
Elite Serum Rx eye gel (mini-review)
THE PRODUCT Elite Serum Rx anti-aging eye cream/gel, $89.95. THE GOOD I really love the way Elite Serum Rx is dispensed. Think of it as an injection-needle type of device, and where the needle would be is a small opening. You depress the tube’s mechanism (caution: do it slowly), and out comes the gel. It’s very…
Nestlé Materna prenatal and postnatal multivitamin (sponsored post)
I’ll never forget the first bottle of Materna multivitamins I bought. It was 2007 and I was at the grocery store. I plucked the pink bottle from the shelf without even looking at the competition. Big B and I had decided that it was time to make a baby, and I knew that it was…