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Eden Hertzog is pregnant…and hungry

New Moon Kitchen is the brainchild of Eden Hertzog a.k.a. the Baker Babe, who offered to blog about being pregnant and the delightful cravings that can inspire. “Sure,” we said as we munched on her Oatmeal Goldies. The icing on the cake (cookie?) is that each of Eden’s posts will include a recipe. Now that’s sweet.

For a long time now, I have considered myself to be somewhat of a “queen” of multitasking: I run my own business, do yoga, study Shamanism, have recorded a CD, am writing a family memoir and also have a real hankering for travel. I have always thrived in the lovely chaos of busy-ness.  Read more...

We have something to announce, and it’s kind of a big deal.

Starting today, you’ll be getting more Bunchland for your buck. Fresh new content will be coming at you on a daily basis. Get ready for guest blogs from people you already know and love, playlists, recipes, movie and book reviews, weekend guides, family style, contests and more. All the more reason to subscribe to our newsletter, be our fan on Facebook and follow us on Twitter to keep up with us.

We’re also busy assembling a kick-ass pool of bloggers to contribute posts to Bunchland on a weekly, monthly or one-time basis. But here’s the really exciting part: you could be one of those bloggers. That’s right, if you’ve got extra time and some mad writing skillz, you can be one of our Bunchland blogging superstars, reaching our ever-growing audience of 10,000 newsletter subscribers, 775 Facebook fans and 3,700+ Twitter followers.  Read more...

Do you have any naked pictures of your kids? If you do, you’re apparently a child pornographer. Or at least you could come under investigation as one.

After a breakdown and a long period of extreme depression, journalist Jody Jenkins worked up the nerve to share his story about how he, his wife and another couple came under police investigation as “child pornographers,” and were eventually also investigated for “endangerment of a child.” All because of six photographs taken on a camping trip. Six. The photos included naked pictures of the children, the children playing with a beer can and being near a campfire. Really?  Read more...

Contributor Kari Svenneby describes spending summer with kids in Norway

Norway!

One of the things that strikes me about Canada is how similar Norway and Canada are in both landscape and climates. It is as if someone left Canada in the dryer too long and made a woolen Norway shrink. The coastlines, the mountains and the breathtaking views of Norway are very similar to Canada. Even the similar climates, and our abilities to produce both oil and fish products seem to connect us. They have both traded the number 1 spot for best country to live in by the United Nations.

I live in Toronto now, but Norway will always be my home as well. Every year the kids and I try to visit my family in Fredrikstad in the summertime where we love to spend most of our time outside. After living abroad the one thing I miss the most is nature. Not because Norway has the most beautiful nature or more of it that in other countries, but because nature is so close to you wherever you are.  Read more...

Author of Free Range Kids Lenore Skenazy with her son, Izzy

Created to support the book, Free Range Kids: Giving our Kids the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry, the Free Range Kids blog is full of interesting essays about worrying less and helping our kids enjoy a fuller, more confident life.

Seven-year-old Tristan had a really nasty case of the chicken pox, so his parents, Gretel and Isaac, set him up with a blog of his own to give him something to think about, other than the itch.

The result is Chicken Pox Blog, Tristan’s elegantly written and photographed account of his 16 day battle with the pox, starting on the day he found out he was afflicted:  Read more...