The details: The Yo Gabba Gabba Live Canadian tour touches down in Toronto this Saturday. Best part is, Bunchland’s going on tour with them. There’s still time to scoop tickets via their website, or enter to win a family 4-pack via our contest (you don’t wanna sleep on this).
Recently a friend who does a lot of traveling gave us a pamphlet he’d picked up during his globe-trotting. It was for a Scooops, a “kid spa” with various locations across the States (and one in Niagara Falls, Canada). The dessert-themed treatments include an Ice Cream Manicure, a Neapolitan package for “Grandma, Mommy and me” and birthday party packages, ranging from the Vanilla package to the Chocolate package, which includes manicures and pedicures, tiaras, glitter tattoos and feather boas for each girl.
We’re conflicted. On the one hand, where’s the harm in indulging little girls’ love of looking pretty and partaking in grown-up beauty treatments, just like Mom? Most of us can remember playing hair salon with our sisters and raiding our mothers’ purses for lipstick and blush when they weren’t looking. Read more...
When it came time to tackle the daunting, and also very exciting, task of purchasing the must-haves for a new baby, I wrote a list. Well, three lists actually. And then, staying true to the businesswoman in me, I turned the list into a spreadsheet. I consulted with many moms on what the must-haves are (because, come on, this baby stuff can get out of hand) and finished my list from there.
I realized that the excitement of starting a family can be easily transferred over to whipping out my credit card to buy the cutest thing in the world. As I perused websites and thought about registries, I found myself longing for simplicity. I decided I would keep things as straightforward as possible. Read more...
Your most embarrassing school outfits are back to haunt you
Looking back, most of us can lay claim to some horrible first-day-of-school outfits. We at Bunchland are no exception. Bicycle shorts with the neon stripe, magenta high-tops, flowered legging (which are kind of back in now, or something), scrunchies, oversized Roots sweatshirts: the outfits we oh-so-carefully picked out for our first day back at elementary school were indeed totally dorky. So far be it from us to poke fun at others.
Having said that, sit back and laugh at this assortment of retro back to school outfits, bravely submitted to use by our loyal readers, who we love even if they used to dress like big nerds.
Summer is slipping away, and last week, we gave you seven things your family’s gotta do before it’s gone for good. Besides back-to-school shopping (don’t hate, you know you love fresh blank notepaper as much as we do), we suggested your family create a summer 2010 time capsule. Your capsule could be stashed away, ready to be pulled out on a moment’s notice when you’re shivering through the winter and need a little sunshine.
Here’s another way to capture those hazy, lazy days of summer even when it’s gray and frigid outside: a playlist of sunny summer songs. It was curated by the coolest DJs we know: our Facebook fans. Spin this playlist in the depths of December and you’ll swear you feel sand between your toes.
If you think that all the high-profile celebrity divorces of the past few years is a bleak sign of our times, think again. The divorce rate among pop culture and political icons may be driving to an all-time high, but us plebs are enjoying the lowest divorce rate in 30 years.
Ironically enough, it may be our cultural obsession with divorce that’s keeping couples together. Bruce Feiler’s recent New York Timesarticle credits a new phenomenon, “divorce porn,” with satisfying the divorce fantasies of married people.
“Divorce porn” is any and all ways we indulge in the divorce/separation stories of others, whether they’re stories of our friends or fictional characters. According to Feiler, while married people may not actually want to get divorced, they do often dream of escaping their marriage. It’s like thinking about how awesome it would be to be a member of the opposite sex, but not actually wanting to make the switch. Read more...
This Labour Day weekend, say goodbye to summer with one of these fun ideas
With Labour Day weekend fast approaching, some people may try to bum you out by kvetching about how summer’s almost over. We see it differently. Summer may be winding down, back-to-school-sale ads may be screaming at us every time we pass by a mall, we may be trading in flip-flops for wool socks, but gosh darn it, we’re not going to take the end of summer lying down. We say the end of summer is something to be embraced, heck, even celebrated. We asked you for your favourite ways to send summer packing and have the best party while doing it. Here are 7 of your ideas.
