Check out this month's Oh Baby! magazine

Pick up the magazine or check out the on-line issue to read my latest contribution to the reading world  Busy all day and yet nothing ever done.  It's a featured look at the life of a mom...with a newborn...and kids...and to-do list...which may or may not include laundry.

Parent Club on Real Moms

Tune into www.realityradio101.com Thursday night at 7pm for my interview with Real Moms on Reality Radio.

We'll be discussing March Break activities, family field trips and maybe get personal talking about new babies in the brood!

Parent Club quoted at ParentCentral.ca

I'm quoted in today's ParentCentral.ca The mother of all baby columns written by my friend Ann Douglas about the challenges of being pregnant over the holidays.

Douglas: Burdens of a jingle belly

"If you’re someone who loves the hustle and bustle of the holiday season and you’re mega-pregnant this year, accepting that you can’t do it all (or that you can’t do it all your usual way) can be tough. Caroline Fernandez, founder of parentclub.ca, is expecting her third child the week before Christmas: “I just can’t physically..."

(Click HERE to continue reading)

It's also published in The Toronto Star

Activity Mummy at Yummy Mummy Club

Looking to keep the kids busy while you work? or tweet? or throw in a load of laundry? I've got a great activity to put the kids to "work"...

Check out my Yummy Mummy Club - Nick of Time column:

Playing "Work at Home Office"

Back to School Interviews - with Caroline

Tune into Real Moms on RealityRadio101.com tonight at 7pm where I will be discussing "Making Back to School Easier" with Alanna Cushnan-Szewczyk and co-host Jane.


And on the subject of Back to School - surf over to CityLine where I was the expert parenting source for their article on "Your School Lunch Dilemmas Solved!"

See me on CityLine

I was (happily) invited to the CityLine Studio, last week, to appear on their maternity show. (They have a great team!)

If you are interested in maternity & post-maternity fashions, the latest baby gear or just seeing me in real life...check out this show!

The show airs CityLine August 20 (check your local listings for times).

Yummy Mummy Club posts

Today my head is replaying yesterday's 911 experience...while my kids lean on my chair and ask "What are you typing?" "I'm Boooorrred" "Can you accompany me to the bathroom?" (really!).

So, in fatigue, frustration and some other-really-good-verbs-that-start-with-"f" - I send you to look at my recent Yummy Mummy Club column space - which tells the whys and why-nots of my current headspace...

Helicopter Kids and Free-Range
Helicopter Kids or Velcro Children? Read my article which explores the term "Helicopter Kids" and concludes some kids just need flight plans.

911 + ambulance + firetruck = a lot of questions Read my article chronically calling 911 - in front of my kids - and all the questions an emergency brings about.

It all makes one le tired.

Parent Club is a SweetMama You Love

Caroline (ze creator of zis Parent Club) was profiled as a "Sweetmamas We Love" by sweetspot.ca. Learn a little about Caroline, secrets of raising fab kids and the one gadget Caroline can't live without.

Surf over to their site to read the sweet profile -->>

Over at Today's Parent

Swing over to Today's Parent to read my lastest Home Base column...

Organizing Intervention

The irony was not lost on me...I was reviewing Hellen Buttigieg's latest book "Organizing Outside the Box" and um...I couldn't find it in my home office. Whoopsie! Though I try to keep the office a "toy-free-zone" I had been working on an article and the kids slipped in under my radar. Hellen's book ...

Read the rest of this entry »

Earth Hour Activities

Interested in some Earth Hour activities? 

Surf over to my Nick of Time blog over at the Yummy Mummy Club to read some of my suggested eco-activities.

NEWS: Yummy Mummy Club

I am thrilled to be joining the Yummy Mummy Club team - writing the regular blog Nick of Time: sanity saving suggestions on how to entertain your kids and avoid meltdowns.

In my first post, I write about entertaining kids when they are sick (yes, click that).

I'll still be writing regularly here on parentclub.ca as well as my featured blog Home Base on Today's Parent so visit regularly!

(yummymummyclub.ca creator/publisher Erica Ehm and parentclub.ca creator/publisher Caroline Fernandez)

Read me...

Read my EverythingMom.com article on tips for what to look for in a camp

Keep Reading

The January blahs aren't keeping me down people...oh no...we must drudge on...

Perhaps some upbeat reading is in order...

Read my "New Year, New Leaf" article over at wondermoms.ca

Find some inspiration for this weekend in my article on "Winter Break Activities" over at everythingmom.com.

My latest Home Base blog on todaysparent.com is on "Accounting 411" all about freelancers getting their accounting house in order (my actual house…forget it…never will be in order).

And finally, if paper-based copy is better (because it is hard to take a laptop into a bubble bath) pick up a copy of December's Blush magazine (available at West Coast Kids, UC Baby and Please Mum) for my feature article "Breathe clean and easy: Natural cleansers for your home"

Today's Parent Post

Read my post on how "I broke up with my gym" over at Today's Parent...

Dear Gym: I'm just not that into you anymore...

What's S'new since last

Forgive my pause in Parent Club over the holidays...it was I call could do to post the Visa Gift Card winner, the Flip in the Family episodes and moderate the, loverly, 211 comments to the Flip Camcorder giveaway (every comment brought a smile to my face!).

Above and beyond the school break and usual holiday excitement - we had to find sleeping nooks for 14 people in my house.  That's a whole lot of corners to clear!  Yes, my prince's entire extended family decided to visit - CANADA - this year.  We had 6 kids under the age of 13.  My in-laws dressed in +5 layers of clothing.  We spent a lot of time hearing about the religion of expresso and why North American coffee is disgusting.

I was tempted to send up the bat signal a few times (though I wonder if batman, the laundry fairy or any other magical creature could have really, really, helped).  Being a fairly anglosaxon type of person...I am not used to having a latin family around...all...the...time. 

How ironic the night they all left...Thing 2 projectile vomited 4 times in the course of 2 hours.  (Didn't Alanis Morrisette write a song about irony?! I think she forgot to include projectile vomit).

However, getting back to routine.  Read my guest post on wondermoms.ca "New Year, New Leaf" about how "This year, instead of making resolutions – become resolute – in celebrating the good."

Read me at Today's Parent

*News for IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

Caroline Fernandez is the newest contributor to Today's Parent! (you know - that famous, Canadian, publisher of everything family in both magazine and on-line format).

It's a whole 'nother place to read her on-line...the new web column/blog is called Home base.

Bookmark it, favourite it, comment and share with friends...
http://blogs.todaysparent.com/homebase/hello-from-home-base/

[Note: Home base will have different content than Parent Club]. So reading one won't keep you in the loop about both!

Parent Club: Radio Interview

Tune into C-FAX 1070 on Saturday Nov. 21st
10:33 am Pacific (1:33pm Eastern)

You will be listening to a chat between myself and Real Parenting Host Coreen Mae regading my recent everythingmom.com article on Teacher Gifts Under $25

Can't tune in? Listen to it live on the web HERE

Read: Caroline Fernandez

Smoke Print:
The Environmental Impact of Tobacco Use
By Caroline Fernandez

The "it's my body and I can smoke if I like" case was extinguised by the recognition of the dangers of second-hand smoke. Now smokers are faced with another reason to quit smoking: a smoke print that has a massive worldwide environmental impact.

Read this feature article in the November issue of Alive Magazine


Double-Duty Packing
by Caroline Fernandez

Packing less stuff means schlepping less stuff. However, when you travel en famille, your suitcase serves as your kitchen, bedroom, rec. room and sometimes pharmacy. How do you not take every-friggin’-thing?!? By packing double-duty items…

Click here to continue reading this article...

Campaign for Inside Health - new column

Monday Morning Muffins
Mon, Jun 8, 2009
Food & Nutrition, Kids, Lifestyle

These muffins are a great way to start your Monday. Plus, easy enough that your kids can help you bake them on Sunday afternoon. Ah - the educational moments in measuring, pouring and stirring - plus - it’s great quality family time.

Monday Morning Muffins

Surf over to Campaign for Inside Health blog for recipe

BlogHers Act Canada and Eco-Guilt

Read my latest enviroment column...

International Women's Day and Eco-Guilt

Dear fellow mothers (and mother-lovers),

In recognition of International Women's Day (Sun. Mar. 8) - let us all - for a moment - get off our environmental-mother-loving-high-and-mighty-friggin'-pedestals. Let us stop the green guilt we lay on each other.

Read full rant at BlogHers Act Canada

If you are the "friend" I refer to in the story and you are reading this...no guilt tripping intended. If Angie or Brit are reading this...I am still...very...sorry