Category: Entertainment

  • Winter Boredom Busters For Kids

    Winter Boredom Busters For Kids

    Canadian winters are long and sometimes we’re trapped inside for days on end. It’s kind of fun at first, until someone finally goes all Jack Nicholson in The Shining. “Heeeere’s Mummy!”   I’m not above using a Dora episode (or five) or iPad apps or video games here and there to break up the day…

  • Awkward Family Photos Game

    Awkward Family Photos Game

      The only thing better than a raucous games night with friends is, um, nothing. It’s good clean fun. Clean, minus the FOUL, trucker-mouthed answers during our last game of Awkward Family Photos. It’s serious pee-your-pants fun. Okay ya, that’s not exactly clean either. Clearly Games Night is a whole lotta dirty fun. The game…

  • Lisa’s Lexicon

    Lisa’s Lexicon

    Sometimes a word just fits. So what that you made it up and bastardized the English language in the process? If it gets your point across, does it really matter? Here are few words spewed forth from my keyboard that aren’t in the dictionary, but fabsolutely should be!  Blunderment: an awkward or embarrassing moment brought about by…

  • The Case Of The Over-Acting Hands

    The Case Of The Over-Acting Hands

    As you may know, our family had an elf living with us for the month of December. He was sent from the North Pole to keep an eye on things and to report back to Santa. Outside of a small altercation with the tooth fairy, things went smoothly and we were sad to see him…