GRACO STROLLER RECALL

About 1.5 million Graco strollers sold at Wal-Mart, Target and other major retailers are being recalled after some children’s fingertips were amputated by hinges on the products.  Approximately 28,430 were sold in Canada.

This is the second major recall in recent months of strollers that led to fingertip amputations and injuries.
In November 2009, about one-million Maclaren strollers were recalled after there were 12 reports of children’s fingertips being amputated by a hinge mechanism.Strollers

RECALL INFORMATION

(information copy from Graco website http://www.gracobaby.com/)

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CRIB RECALL

Heads up for parents tonight if you own a Dorel crib. Thousands of drop side cribs are being recalled after the death of a baby in Iowa.

 In the U-S, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall of 635,000 Dorel Asia cribs  after the death of a six-month-old boy and multiple reports of injuries.  Nearly 7,600 drop side cribs are also being voluntarily recalled in Canada. The concern is the drop-side can detach,
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NEW YEAR

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Ok, so I am a few days late. Ok, so almost two weeks late.  I feel like I have been time challenged lately and so have not been posting on the blog. I know, no excuse. Well this year I am pledging to be better about updating. I am also going to try to put more news you can use on the blog, and less personal stuff.

I am planning to make some changes this year.

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VISIONS OF BAKING DANCING IN MY HEAD

Tis the season to get baking. I love to bake but I don’t have much time to do it  these days. I miss baking but it’s nearly Christmas and that means I need to get my bake on.

You see we give baked goods as presents for all our friends and neighbours. We pack them all up in baskets wrapped in cello and a beautiful bow. The baskets are loaded with all sorts of cookies,

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I DID IT!

So I have been absent lately. There is a reason, it isn’t because I was being lazy, just the opposite actually. I found out about this thing, it is a writing challenge. November was dubbed National Novel Writing Month. I have long dreamed of writing books, novels, children’s books, you name it. I have spent my working career writing but nothing as interesting as a novel. I write news. So when I heard about this writing challenge I was intrigued.
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