Posts by Czen:)

I've had baseboard heat in a number of homes I've owned. No one has ever burned themselves! Yes, plastic left touching it will melt. I actually put my feet right on the baseboard's for a quick warm up some mornings. Kids lie beside...

do you live in a winter climate? Because I would love to get the kids up and go skiing for the morning and then come home to a wonderful crock pot meal. While the kids are to young for skiing most hills have tobogganing. We just took...

Never seen them but they sound like a great teething helper. Anyone here from Canada and know where to buy them here? I can't find them on the Babies R Us canadian site. Czen

question - when you add spinach to your eggs (ie breakfast burrito) do you blanche it first or do something to prepare it? Czen

I give my kids pillows once they start stealing mine! I figure that means they are ready. And I always give them very thin compact pillows for a long time. It usually happens just after a year old. Czen

I would play it by ear and see how DD responds to them. When my second was that age we went to visit my parents who we only see a couple of times a year. She also exclusively nursed and co-slept. I tried to take my DD with me when I...

I always freeze mine. The potatoes become softer/creamier but thats how everyone here likes it. Czen

Hello! I'm from BC too! And it has been rather dreary, hasn't it? My midwife used to believe we got enough Vitamin D from hand and face sun exposure. She then went to an osteoporosis conference and changed her mind due to what was...

and it takes a 1/2 hour per pound in the water. Czen

Bump! I'm always wondering about this too. I have 4 kids so you think I would have figured it out by now! But I still feel uncomfortable with it. And the thing is that we don't have it often enough that I have thought of researching...