Category: Featured
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Best Masks For Kids In Calgary
Sadly the need for masks for both ourselves and our kids is not going away. The list below has both medical and non-medical masks that are perfect for kids both in size and in colours/patterns. These masks are available in Calgary and can ship right to your door so if you’re looking for the best…
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Creating True Holiday Spirit At Southcentre Mall
*This is a paid collaboration post with Southcentre Mall* Having grown up in Lake Bonavista, Southcentre Mall has been my favourite mall since we moved to Calgary in 199…..on second thought you don’t need to know how long ago that was (I’m not old, right? RIGHT???). In my humble opinion, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a…
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Life As A Diabetic Parent: Diabetes Technology has come a long way
I was first diagnosed with type one diabetes over 35 years ago. That makes me sound really old, but I was actually diagnosed at just over one-year-old. At that time, diabetes management was WAY different than it is now. I can’t imagine what it must have been like for my parents. There were no devices…
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Things To Do With Your Kids: Camping At Sundance Lodges
Camping with little kids is an adventure. Depending on your level of comfort and expertise it can either be a breeze or an absolute nightmare, and a lot of how the experience turns out depends on where you go. In the last two years, we’ve gone camping with the kids three times. This hardly makes…
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Profit Share with Servus Credit Union
As we head towards the first part of June, we have now been working with Servus for almost six months. In those six months, a LOT has changed. For instance, we bought a new house. But also, our spending habits have changed. Our partnership with Servus gave us the opportunity to sit down and evaluate…
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RESP: Free Money For Your Kids
If you’re anything like me, then a Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) sounded like one of those adulty things you should really do once you have kids, but the why and the how were a little less specific. Well here is a doozy of a why, and if you take nothing else from this article…
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Recapping our savings journey and winning $1 Million with Servus Credit Union
As we head towards the end of April, that means we’re only eight days away from the Servus Big Share contest ending! There’s still time to enter and it’s worth it because you could win $1 MILLION! With the Servus Big Share, every time you save $500 you get an entry to win $1 Million.…
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What’s the difference between a bank and a credit union?
I touched on this briefly in my first post with Servus Credit Union, but really what is the difference between a bank and a credit union? We’re all familiar with Canada’s major banks, but credit unions seem smaller and more local, why is that? Well in this blog post I’ll break it all down for…
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How To Teach Your Kids About Money
Out of all of the blogs I’ve written about our experience with Servus, this blog has been the most requested. Money is an emotional subject for most people, couple that with the most important little people in your life and suddenly the topic of teaching your kids about money is one fraught with years of…
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Tips for choosing a financial advisor
This post is part of a paid collaboration with Servus Credit Union. I think for a lot of people the hardest part of getting started on your personal finance journey is the actual GETTING STARTED part of it. How do you choose a financial advisor? Let’s face it, our education system lets us down when it…
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TFSA vs RRSP – What are they and which is better?
For the latest blog on our Servus Credit Union financial journey, we start to dive into the real meat and potatoes of savings. And as it turns out, this is also the part of savings where I get overwhelmed and confused. TFSAs and RRSPs. What are they? What’s the difference? What should we be invested…
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Financial Goals and How We’re Working Towards Freedom
As we embark on our savings journey with Servus Credit Union we started meeting regularly with our financial advisor Brock. In our first meeting, we talked about our life and Brock really took the time to get to know us as a family. He wanted to know what we do, what we’d like to do…
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Forest Schools In and Around Calgary
As the clock turns over to 2021, we’re quickly approaching the need to register Clara for Kindergarten. With our love of spending time outdoors, we wanted to investigate putting her into a forest school for Kindergarten. There are a number of proven benefits to forest schools including hands-on learning, exercise and real-world examples of learning…
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Dashing Dad’s 2020 Holiday Gift Guide
Let’s be honest – 2020 has been an absolute dumpster fire of a year. Small businesses are taking hit after hit, and local makers are no different. So for this years gift guide I wanted to put extra emphasis on local Canadian makers and businesses. There’s only one product on my list not local, but…
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Support Local With Alberta Beef
This article is a paid sponsorship with Alberta Beef Producers. Since being diagnosed with Diabetic Gastroparesis eating red meat has become a treat for our family that we only do every so often. Since my diagnosis, I have lamented on more than one occasion that I’m not able to enjoy the meals I used to…
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Calgary Restaurants, Breweries, and Coffee Roasters Offering Delivery
Unprecedented times, call for an unprecedented amount of ordering in. Delivery drivers are busier than they’ve ever been and it’s easy to see why. If you’re keeping your social distance but still want to support local businesses I’ve assembled a list of restaurants, breweries and coffee roasters that offer delivery options either via in-house delivery…
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Things To Do With Your Kids While Self Isolating
We can all get through this together. While it’s called self-isolating, and social distancing, we’re not alone. In fact, we’re more connected than ever as we band together to stop the spread of disease.
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Things To Do With Your Kids: DIY Cake Decorating
We were invited to attend a DIY Cake Decorating day at Cakeify in Bridgeland and what resulted was a poorly decorated cake but LOADS of fun.
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Travelling with Kids: The Ultimate Family Travel Guide to Palm Springs
Palm Springs has lots to do as a family, and no matter the age of your kids you’ll be able find tons t
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11 Awesome Calgary Instagram Accounts For Parents
Awesome Calgary Parenting Instagram accounts you should be following now.
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Dashing Dad’s Best Christmas Movies Ever
I recently polled my Instagram followers to see what they thought was the best Christmas movies of all times. I picked the Top 20 movies as voted by major publications (Like Esquire, Time, Rotten Tomatoes) and pitted them against each other in a bracket style contest. The results were … surprising. For instance, classics fell…
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Dashing Dad’s Holiday Gift Guide & Giveaway!
The annual Dashing Dad Holiday Gift Guide is back. All designed to help with your mental wellbeing this Christmas season. Enter to win all products here!
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Can Kids Ride Lime and Bird Scooters?
Calgary now has scooters from Lime and Bird, but can your kids ride these scooters? I went straight to the source to see if your kids can ride e-scooters …
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How to Fly With a Toddler
If you’ve ever flown with a toddler then you know how anxiety inducing it can be. I wanted to share all of the tips and tricks we used to make flying with a toddler run as smooth as it could.
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Awesome Family Day Trips Around Calgary
There’s lots to do in Calgary in the winter, but sometimes you just have to get out of town. Here are some awesome day trips with the kids around Calgary …
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Dashing Dad’s Holiday Gift Guide
I can’t believe it’s almost Christmas. I recently wrote about long days, short years and man it just keeps blowing my mind. None-the-less, Christmas is almost here and I’ve been working hard this past month to put together the first Dashing Dad Holiday Gift Guide! I’ve teamed up with some awesome local retailers to showcase…
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9 Stay-At-Home Dads Tell Us What It’s REALLY Like
You know those times where you’re at work and everything is going wrong so you turn to your co-worker to vent about how you hate everything. They listen, offer up some advice, or offer to buy you a beer after work. You don’t get that as a stay-at-home parent. Finding a sense of community as…
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How To Take A Road Trip With A Toddler
This year, for Stampede season, we decided to get the heck out of town and headed to beautiful Christina Lake, British Columbia. My cousin and his wife own a cabin there and are gracious enough to let us use it. The only downside to the whole experience is you need to take a 7 hour…