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What’s the point of having a holiday cookie exchange if you can’t have fun making a mess of your kitchen?

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Here’s what we’re reading today:

Her Bad Mother gives you some options while her site undergoes virtual renovation. The renovations would go faster but by her own admission, Catherine is “about as technically skilled as a drunk Luddite.” *chuckle*

The Toronto Star’s parentcentral.ca reports on the upcoming closure of the Dovercourt Child Care Centre in the city’s west end. It was going to be closed anyway due to all-day kindergarten, but the date’s been moved up with renovations scheduled for the new year. What would you do if you lost your daycare?

Popped Culture doesn’t have a whole lot to read, but do we ever enjoy the stuff Jeremy digs up. Today’s pop art features an alternate universe Mickey, Donald and Goofy where the Magic Kingdom isn’t all that magic. Donald Duck in overalls is so good!  Read more...

What our favourite blogs are posting about today

Ohdeedoh, in typical adorable fashion, has instructions for making a snowman kit.

Christopher & Tia share the power of laughter.

Sweetmama has a list of gifts you can buy and donate to a great cause at the same time.

Stay at Stove Dad says gluten-free pumpkin pie is win-win.

Those of us with fabulous rainboots can’t wait for the opportunity to splash around in puddles!

This Postcard from Bunchland comes from photographer tjstaab on Flickr.

Do you have a Postcard from Bunchland? Send us a photo showing some urban family fun! Join our Flickr group or email your online editors meghan@bunchland.ca and amanda@bunchland.ca.

Wow! Raw-ish video of last week’s debate between Bunch Family‘s Rebecca Brown and Superdad writer Christopher Shulgan, in a no-holds-barred battle to the finish over the topic, “Is Fatherhood Lame?” Try not to pay attention to the shakiness of the video and just listen to the discussion of the way pop culture portrays parenting, particularly fatherhood. And tomorrow, the start of an exploration of kids and videogames, which attempts to establish some conclusions on when it’s appropriate to introduce the awesomeness of today’s most captivating entertainments.

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Last month, Bunchland launched our BlogHer contest. First prize was joining Bunch creative director Rebecca Brown at the conference in New York City, sharing her hotel room at the Hilton and scoring a ticket to the BlogHer 2010 conference in New York City.  Entrants had to answer the question “What’s the awesomest thing your family has ever done?” to qualify. The votes have been tallied, and the BlogHer contest winner is Daniela Syrovy. She gets to hightail it up at our Bunch party and schmooze with all-female blog superstars. Congrats! You can check out Daniela’s winning entry below.

Our family is the definition of awesome. For years my hubby and I owned a fast food, old-school burger joint. We lived in the basement, we partied, we worked, I was the fries to his burger. Then I got surprise pregnant and bam! We bought a house and got our shit together. I had the baby, and 9 months later was pregnant with our second. We were burning the midnight oil and the candle at both ends, so we said fuck it and sold Big Burger.  Read more...