Monday, September 28th, 2009
Coming soon: Kai Kids Trunk Show!
Well, we’ve taken a bit of a hiatus from hosting our Kai Kids in person sales lately! A new baby has a way of sweetly derailing the best of intentions. But we are starting to settle into a new routine and have time to refocus on the business once again, so are planning [...]
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
Recipe: Red Lentil and Swiss Chard Stew
Back in university I used to be a vegetarian. I am no longer, but still love legumes and many vegetarian cuisines. And now that I’m cooking for my kids, part of my mission to provide healthy meals is to provide a weekly meatless one.
Once a week we eat a vegetarian entree for dinner. The Johns [...]
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Weekly Green Tip: Recycle kids’ art into giftwrap
Kids love painting, drawing and colouring, and even if your little ones spend a lot of time creating at home, they probably are also bringing home several masterpieces a week from school or daycare. We have a magnet board in our kitchen where I post the latest works of art from our two boys, but [...]
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Great green reads for little minds
To celebrate Earth Day today, I thought I’d share some excellent children’s books our family has read lately so you can try to make every day Earth Day in your household (we all know how little ones like to hear a story over and over again…).
One day earlier this spring I escaped for a bit [...]
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Guest blogging this week on CanadianFamily.ca
It’s only Tuesday, but it’s already been a busy week for Kai Kids. First we were featured in the Toronto Star’s Sunday edition, which brought us lots of online traffic and kept us busy shipping parcels off to new customers, yippee!
Plus, I was invited to be the guest blogger over at Canadian Family’s blog for [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Business, Green Living, Parenting, Press by Nancy
Monday, March 30th, 2009
Kicking Our Plastic Addiction
Is your family surrounded by a sea of plastic gadgets, toys, bottles, bags, and containers? Looking for ways to cut back to help ;protect the planet and reduce your family’s toxic load?
I just wrote an article for the fabulous parenting site BabyontheWay.ca, all about trying to pare our family’s life of plastics and suggesting lots [...]
