My favourite time of year – peach season! Ontario’s garden goodness is overflowing at farmers’ markets across Toronto. But instead of picking up a basket of the local sweetness, we headed southwest to fill our own at Parkway Orchards. The pick-your-own fruit farm...
Lavender fields forever. About an hour’s drive west of Toronto are fields of purple – and, on the day we visited, a whole lot of people obsessed with these pretty purple plants. Terre Bleu Lavender Farm in Milton is a family-run farm, growing eight varieties of...
It’s one of those nature-in-the-city moments when you feel like you’ve left the city if not for the odd view of a high rise or the CN Tower poking out in the distance. Our latest escape from the city was on the Humber River, the main branch that flows 126 km from the...
We’re a big sports family – playing and spectating (hockey, ultimate frisbee, basketball and football) are some of our family’s favourite activities. So we jumped at the chance to add rugby to our list. The Team The Toronto Wolfpack is the city’s first pro Rugby...
Kids in T.O. has partnered with the Ontario Science Centre for a chance to win an awesome prize pack featuring two of its summer offerings (#11 on our 51 Things To Do With Kids in Toronto this Summer) – POPnology, an exhibition on how pop culture has inspired...
Call me crazy but I do love summers in the city. Whether you’re playing tourist or touring around tourists, there are so many Toronto destinations, activities and festivals to fill nine weeks of summer vacation. We’ve pulled together some of our favourites...
Hilary Leung Artist, Illustrator, Author Toronto dad Hilary Leung is one of the friendliest most creative people I know. The author, illustrator and all-around-awesome dad in TOw is the co-creator behind the kid books Legend of Ninja Cowboy Bear (first self-published...
We love discovering independent bookstores and I can’t believe it took us this long to discover Mabel’s Fables in Toronto’s Mount Pleasant area. This neighbourhood staple has been on the same corner for decades, and this year it’s celebrating its 30th birthday!...
How do you tell your mom you love them on Mother’s Day? Well, hopefully you do it every day. But on this special big day dedicated to celebrating moms, we put together some gift ideas to say ‘thank you” made-in-Toronto style. Best Mom Ever. The message itself is...
What’s for lunch? A big platter of Texas BBQ. The boys and I took dad in TOw for a belated birthday lunch at Adamson Barbecue – one of Toronto’s most sought spots for Central Texas-style BBQ. The lunch-time restaurant is tucked away in an industrial park in...
LEGO pretty much rules our house. So it’s always a treat to get out of the house to have new brick-building experience with our little LEGO fans in TOw. The latest destination is the new SPACE MISSION exhibit at LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Toronto in Vaughan. This is...
I am feeling… in the pink at The Pink Studio, Toronto’s newest dance and fitness studio in city’s east end. I recently grabbed a group of girlfriends and dropped in to check out the beautifully renovated and wonderfully designed space owned and run by local mom...
We love The Beach – even in winter. That is, especially in winter when international and local artists and designers add colour and conversation to the Toronto shores of Lake Ontario with the annual design competition Winter Stations. The outdoor public art exhibition...
“It’s not a life skill,” said my eight-year-old when we told him that he’d be in ski school on the first day of our family ski trip to Tremblant, one of Quebec’s biggest ski resorts located about an hour drive north of Montreal (six hours from Toronto by car.) Truth...
The AGO’s presentation of Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors in Toronto is a hot ticket. If you manage to score some tickets, the question is: do you or do you not bring the kids? We lucked out (after 8 hours online) to get three tickets to experience the 88-year-old...
MAYBE THERE’S A WAY TO CHANGE HOW GIRLS SEE THEMSELVES AND EACH OTHER? Toronto artist and illustrator Ellie Arscott is a mom of two girls. She just launched a community art project that is bringing together girls of all ages to help build their self-confidence...
Here we go – 10 days of ‘holiday’ (so my kids call it) are coming up. If you’re hanging around ‘holidaying’ in Toronto for March Break, we have rounded up 10 ideas to fill your days while school is out. 1. Digital Holiday – this is far from a break from technology,...
We love March. It means March Break and the return of two of our family’s favourite experiences – TIFF’s digiPlaySpace and the TIFF Kids International Film Festival on offer at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. This year’s edition of digiPlaySpace (until April...
The Ontario Science Centre was our first and one of our most frequent destinations with kids in TOw. So many hours spent building, shopping and splashing in KidSpark, watching the stars in the Planetarium, getting totally immersed in an IMAX experience and exploring...
Have you ever gone winter camping? Dog sledding? With your kids in TOw? I asked my friend and Ottawa mom of two to share her family’s winter adventure spending the night on a dog sledding expedition in South River, ON near Algonquin Park … in -30C. It was...
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