In honor of my daughter crawling, I want to share what she uses for hard surfaces like our fashionable yet painful slate and hardwood floors. TEE KNEES is an ingenious product designed to take the pain out of crawling and make moving around a lot more fun. Tee-Knees are baby friendly, providing protection without being [...]

Starting later then most, my little girl has finally begun crawling. It has sort of been a bit of a joke around here, up until now we have been able to plunk her down and there she stayed. Of course both my husband and I knew she would soon crawl, but we have had no [...]

I was putting my son to bed the other night…it was one of those long days where my brain had already turned off and my body was ready for sleep. I robotically went about his night time routine. He was vying for another story, requesting water and roping me in to spend a few more [...]

During the thanksgiving season, we are all reminded of those special things in our lives that we are so humbly grateful for. Be it food, shelter, health or prosperity, many of us offer thanks and goodwill for the blessings in our lives.
One of the many things we often overlook is the blessing of our mothers. [...]

Happily, last month, my daughter had her first birthday and turned one-year-old. For her special day she received many gifts, including three delightful looking dolls. Or, so I thought. One scared the jeepers out of me as it sat in its box, masked in the darkness of a late evening as I turned off all [...]

Living on the west coast, the fall brings many things - kids going back to school, leaves falling on the ground and cooler, rainier weather….lots of rainy weather! For anyone who has grown up on the west coast, they understand how nice a warm meal is on the cool, damp days of autumn weather. An [...]

When we think of Canada, we can’t help but think of cold, snow and people doing what they must to keep warm. Although summers are beautiful with people actually wearing shorts, sandals and a bikini at the beach, fall arrives, winter sets in, and the cold weather can be colder than you ever imagined.
When it [...]

…You are reading one of those books with the touch and feel pages. My son has one about trucks. It has actual black rubber for the wheels and hammered tin to represent the drum of a cement mixer. There is corrugated cardboard showing the side of a cargo van and sandpaper for a pile of [...]

Call me crazy, and many of you may, but I try my very best not to let my kids eat sugar. I know, it’s odd and some of my friends have even called me abusive and cruel, not allowing my little one to suck on a candy or indulge in a little chocolate cake. Yet [...]

A couple of weeks ago I was at the mall with my daughter. She doesn’t walk yet so I put her in her stroller and cruised the stores to see the latest fall fashions. Years of experience buying clothes for celebrities and working in the film business has made me a bit of a power shopper. I can zoom through a store, scour a sale and pretty much sum up an entire collection in just a few seconds…Unexpectedly as I was about to head out the door, I heard my name paged over the mall’s intercom system. Panicking, I hurried to the information booth only to find out…

This morning I laid flat on the floor with my two kids trying to wake up. It was early and my brain had not cleared the fogginess of sleep. Both of them had been up for awhile and like all children, their exuberance had kicked in the moment they opened their eyes. I, on the [...]

In a world of techno gadgets and super sleek electronics, there are still artisans committed to their craft and selling their wears. Amongst all the gleam of high-tech, or the contemporary-chic of mass produced, you will find that unique, one-of-a-kind items still exist. Although many of us are conditioned to visiting a big department store [...]

It’s Fall here and that means a few things.  The leaves are about to change, it’s the start of cold/flu prevention season, and lots of kids will be shivering and underdressed half the day.
With temperatures changing with the season, it is sometimes difficult to properly dress children for the day.  However, it is better to [...]

When Soapbox Mama first started, we let our readers know that we were all about moms living outside the box. That meant those with new ideas, interesting lifestyles, and dynamic circumstances that equaled a loving mother with opinions and ideas about what is best for her kids, herself and her family.
Since our day of conception, [...]

Ladies, I had to sneak this post in so you had some time to let the men in your life know, November 6th is National Men Make Dinner day!
I wanted to fully inform you so you could e-mail, leave a note on the fridge, text message or slap a post-it-note to the forehead of [...]