In 2008, best friends and moms, Melissa and Voula, grew tired of missing out on some of the great family-friendly events and activities in their hometown of Calgary. They put their heads together in search of a solution, decided to start a website that would keep local parents in the
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Note: This Post was first published in November 2015. Click here for details about the 2017 Event! The Nova Scotia Tree for Boston is on the move from Pictou, Nova Scotia, to our friends in Boston, Massachusetts. Today I was lucky enough to meet some of the hard-working Nova Scotians who are
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It was the early 1980’s. I was about 6 years old. Our family lived in Dartmouth’s Colby Village – and a visit to IKEA in Burnside was the most incredible weekend treat. I have distinct memories of this crazy setup in the front entrance, as soon as you walked in
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This drizzly Saturday afternoon was the perfect opportunity to try our luck at the Board Room Game Cafe  – a place my 8-year daughter and I have been meaning to visit for ages. And who better to bring with us than our resident Scrabble expert: my dear Mum, a.k.a Granny! When they opened
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As part of a 5-day family road trip in Québec’s Îles de la Madeleine (The Magdalen Islands), we decided to spend two nights at the all inclusive holiday resort, La Salicorne. When we discovered that there was a choice of accommodation, and that one of the options was a large,
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Local Parent Groups are outraged at a plan to excavate Citadel Hill in order to create traffic tunnels, an arts and recreation centre and a multi-storey car park in the downtown Halifax core. Staff at the engineering department in the City of Halifax have leaked a document confirmed  they are
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Did you know that the word dinosaur means “terrible lizard”? And how about this fact: the term dinosaur wasn’t even used in science until 1841. Until then, the bones and fossils of large, unknown creatures were, in fact, thought to be the remains of dragons! And for the aviation buffs: were
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We lost the Elf on the Shelf. He travelled with us to England last year, where (to the bemusement of mildly scornful British relatives), we succeeded in putting on a great show of proving that the Elf on the Shelf watches children everywhere they go. But he didn’t make it back to Halifax. We discovered
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Two weeks ago, I became concerned at the increasing number of cars speeding up the road I live on, so I emailed my local councillor. Within a day, her staff had responded. Within a week, there was a traffic survey being conducted on my street. The councillor in question was
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Last night my two young children fell asleep clutching glowsticks, their day’s clothes thrown in a heap on the floor by their beds, covered in dried grass, sticky cotton candy and ketchup. It was three hours past their bedtime when their heads hit the pillow after a wonderful, magical night at the Northern
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