Sandy's Blah, Blah, Blog

I started Oh Baby! Magazine with my husband during my first pregnancy. My love of writing and my obsession with magazines paired with my husband’s many skills have proven to be a great combination. I'm from Toronto - born and raised - and I've been married for eight years. Since the inception of Oh Baby! I've had two babies, Andreas and Alexandra . What a ride it's been! I’d like to share with you my struggles with trying to find this so-called – and I think unachievable - “balance” I keep reading about… Follow Sandy E on Twitter

The Icecreamists - Covent Garden, London, England Ice cream made from breast milk... The question is ... would you try it? For Wordless Wednesday: England Edition Part 1 click here.

I am a co sleeper. I never thought I would be. But here I am. I spent the first couple of years of my son’s life making sure that he slept in his room alone. I was diligent about it. I also tried – unsuccessfully - to sleep train my daughter. I wanted to make sure that we would NOT have a family bed. Why didn’t I want a family bed? Purely selfish reasons. Mainly because I love to sleep. I really LOVE to sleep. In my life I have spent...

My five year old told me that I looked pregnant yesterday. I said, “NO!” and inside I felt like crying, because of all of my struggles with weight loss – or better put, my lack of weight loss.  Outside I laughed and told him he was being silly. He was really cute. About an hour later we were getting ready for bed and I told my husband that Andreas had told me that I looked pregnant. We shared a laugh. Andreas then proceeded to...

I’ve recently shared my struggles with my son in the mornings. I have an update for you. What I know about me I’m still not a morning person. My solution I set my alarm to go off at 6:45am instead of 7:15am – this way I still get to hit the snooze button twice and I’m up 30 minutes earlier. (Crazy I know – but it seems to work) What I know about my son This little guy - who has trouble sleeping – hates waking up...

I’m so not a morning person. I hate waking up to an alarm clock. It’s the worst sound ever. My current ‘situation’ (not referring to my abs) is that I generally go to bed without a child next to me. We have eventful nights (musical beds, toilet trips, crying, tantrums, nightmares, etc.) and about 98.9% of the time I wake up sandwiched between both kids, and my husband is always on the edge. Teetering. Every morning, I hit snooze at...

My house is kind of like Mary Poppins’ purse. Or a black hole. I have to admit that we have a lot of ‘stuff’. Lots of toys, clothes, shoes, books, DVDs and so much more. As my husband says, “it’s all rubbish” AND just to add to all of my stuff, whenever people come over, they tend to leave their stuff here too. All the time. I should have a “lost and found” bin. BUT even with all of this ‘stuff’ I always manage to know...

My family celebrates Christmas. It’s my favourite time of year. We are Christians, but it’s never really been overly religious or about going to church for us. We always just spend quality time with our family. Not just immediate family - but aunts, uncles, cousins and friends too! I love everything about Christmas. Everything about a beautiful nativity scene, decorations, cooking, baking, gift giving, Frosty, Santa, Rudolph, The New Year...

My cheeky monkey

I love this time of year. I love snow, and I love being indoors with the fireplace on, sipping a nice glass of red wine… Anyway, we woke up this morning and it was snowing! Not only was it snowing, it was actually sticking to the ground! The best part about this is that I’m ready! My kids both have new snow boots and new coats. You may or may not notice from this pic that my kid’s coats are one size too big and their snow pants...

Last night my daughter slept through the night! This isn’t the first time of course, but it does seem like ages since the last time she did. It was seven this morning when she climbed into my bed, gave me a hug and said, “Mommy, I sleeped in my bed all night by me self”. I told her I was so proud of her and knew that she could do it. Gave her a hug and a kiss and silently begged for just five more minutes from the Sleep Gods. Awesome...

Oh Baby! Magazine was an exhibitor at the Baby Time Show here in Toronto this past weekend. We had so much fun. We spoke to a lot of people. We gave away some great prizes from Graco & Fisher Price and we saw a LOT of baby bumps. I saw so many pregnant women and so many teeny tiny babies there that if I wasn’t absolutely sure that I didn’t want to have more children, it would have turned into a baby-making weekend for me. My kids...

Three weeks on a family trip in England. Three weeks, where after the first few days, Nick and I looked at each other and realized that we really missed daycare. Yes, it’s true, I’m not embarrassed to admit that we were really tired and wished we could have just dropped our kids off at daycare – even just for a few hours. At 2.5 and 5 they are busy, busy, busy and we felt old, old, old. Our family is awesome, and we felt so welcomed,...