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Wow what a subject. Since I found out my daughter was having a boy we have talked about this and I find that most people are not educated about the process. This is the era of the Internet, type circumcision in any search engine, google it, read a book. I actually found a book at the midwives office and it scared the heck out of me. My son’s were not circumcised as one was born in England and they do not do it there unless it is requested and the same here in Canada for my other son. You have to pay $300.00 privately in Canada. OHIP does not cover it, as it is listed as an operation that is an option.

Here are the arguments:

1. the old locker room story, but I do not want my boy to stand out. If your son had a bigger penis then other boys or a smaller one they would stand out and there is nothing you can do about that. to me this is a lame argument
2. it will cause a disease in women. This has been proven to be wrong! Education is key, and cleanliness.
3. It is harder to clean an uncircumcised baby’s penis. It is actually harder to clean a women’s genital area then a boys.
4. My husband is circumcised and I do not want them to look different. So you are going to put your newborn baby through the pain and suffering so he looks like his Dad?

Times are changing, and we have more information at hand. Do not do it because your relatives did, that is not a good enough excuse. Watch a video on how they do this operation, google the term and see for yourself. There are a lot of people in the Jewish faith that have started a webpage against circumcision. Jews against circumcision, JAC for short. So the argument for religious reasons is being challenged here

Check out this website, they even talk about women being forced to be circumcised
Graphic photos of circumcision, this is horrible

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Well, the baby is due in 15 days, that is IF he knows when he is supposed to be born. It is fascinating how a baby knows when to be born. I have been watching my daughter’s stomach can increasingly bigger and hearing all her pregnant friends say the same thing.

1. Why is it that strangers want to touch you, they would not do it under normal circumstances
2. Everyone has an idea of how to stir the baby up…if you are over due go for a bumpy drive, drink this, have sex…come one!
3. If anyone ever wants to know where the public washrooms are in any mall you have them all memorized.
4. So much fun to see your little bump grow and buy your first maternity clothes, but by month 8 you just want your figure back or at least see your toes.
5. When you tell people you are having a midwife deliver your baby they look at you like you have two heads. I had a midwife in a hospital in England and it was a great experience. Midwives offer a more personal experience, they are there for you throughout the pregnancy and they come to your home for the first 5 days. Does your OB or doctor do that? They use to
6. Rent the movie the business of being born. It will open your eyes, Rikki Lake came up with the idea after researching midwives.

Well being as I am the grandmother to be, I just have to wait for the call and jump into action and witness my daughter giving birth to her first child, our grandson. I am over the moon because my daughter has to live here for awhile while her house is being re built (they put on an addition) so I get to share in all those great moments for the first few months.

Stay tuned for more news

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The popularity of Senior online dating has skyrocketed over the last few years. If you’re willing to search cyberspace for potential love, then you might get lucky. All you need is a computer and an Internet hook up. A few clicks of the mouse and boom! You have instant access to millions of potential love connections.

There are two primary types of dating sites: sites that require a yearly or monthly fee, and sites that are free. While the free sites offer the obvious advantage of “no fees”, there are many drawbacks that lie beneath their fee-free surface. On the flipside, paying a fee gets you a little more for your money: these sites are set up to elevate your user experience and you can also expect some general safety measures to be in place which is beneficial for Seniors.

Not all dating sites for Seniors are created equally; remember that! You’ll get what you pay for - or don’t pay for, in the case of the freebies. You are also putting yourself at risk using a free dating site and opening yourself up to many dangers.

They say every website is designed to make money, and if that rule applies to dating sites, how can they operate without charging fees for their services? First off, the free sites just don’t offer the perks the paid sites provide. You will most likely not find free webcam chatting or video hosting capabilities on a free site. But maybe most important - you won’t find responsive customer service. And that means no one ready to answer your questions. And surprise! Your free dating website might not even offer a phone number for customer support.

In place of the tech dating toys and quick-to-reply customer service, you’ll get another feature in abundance: you will see lots of advertising. Expect a whirlwind of banners that pop up and pop under when you sign on. Get ready for e-mail advertising to slam your mailbox at least once a week. Worst of all, your personal info could end up in the hands of a large advertising network.

Are you still considering free dating sites as a viable choice?

OK, let’s pretend you join one of those free sites. And you meet someone who interests you. Your e-mail conversations go so well that after a few weeks, you start talking by phone. After enjoying his or her virtual company, you decide to meet face-to-face. But - here’s the problem: there were no membership fees for the dating site. So this person could be virtually anyone. He or she could have uploaded false images and provided false personal information in their profile. And it all could have been done to lure you to meet face to face! Unfortunately, this is a story that constantly repeats itself. Now, not everyone who does this intends to hurt or harm you, but sometimes that’s exactly what he or she has in mind.

Suppose you agree to meet someone from a free dating site. And then suppose you’re robbed or otherwise assaulted, what do you tell the police? Here’s the problem: there’s no credit card on file. In fact, there’s no official payment information at all. So where do the police start to look?

None of the problems mentioned in this article exist on a paid Senior dating site. While these sites will definitely charge you a fee, you’re also guaranteed a more pleasant user experience - you won’t need to sift through paid advertisements or spam e-mails.

Members will have more features on paid dating sites; you’ll be able to perform detailed, elaborate searches. And when it comes to communicating with potential matches, you’ve got plenty of options: besides e-mail, you might also be able to instant message or even have a webcam chat.

Perhaps the best feature of a paid dating site is a subtle one. If you found someone from the site that you liked enough to meet face to face, that person’s real information is definitely on file with the dating site.

For safe dating tips and to find a partner please visit Senior Singles Canada Dating Service at http://www.seniorsinglescanada.com

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Over the last few years, online dating has opened new doors to new relationships. Are you looking for love? Willing to look online? Then you are in luck! A live Internet connection and a computer will get you started with online dating. Then a few mouse clicks, you’re on your way. At your fingertips: millions of potential love matches.

You’ll find two basic types of dating sites: free sites and paid sites. Not having to pay fees is an obvious advantage. But under their fee-free surface, these sites also have many drawbacks. On the flipside, the fee at the paid sites does get you a little more: they are set up to give you a better user experience and you can expect certain general security measures for members.

Not all dating websites are created equally. So keep this in mind when choosing between paid or free. You only get what you pay for - or don’t pay for, in the case of free sites. Using a free dating site could open the door to risk and unknown potential dangers.

Dating sites are businesses, just like any other service. But if that’s the case, how do the supposedly free ones work? How can they stay around and not charge members for their services? To begin with, the free sites just don’t offer the fancy communication tools. You will most likely not find free webcam chatting or video hosting capabilities on a free site. But of more concern, possibly, is the lack of customer service. If you get into trouble, you may not find anyone who can solve your problem. Don’t even think of calling their customer support phone line; you won’t find one.

But you will get something for nothing from the free dating sites: you’ll get tons of advertising thrown at you when you log on. Expect to swim through a sea of pop-ups and pop-unders. They’ll also be dumping e-mail advertising on you - at least once a week. And perhaps worst of all, your personal info can be sold to a large advertising network.

Are you still considering joining a free dating site?

So, let’s pretend you go ahead and sign on with a free dating site. Next thing you know - you find someone interesting. You start by e-mailing each other for a few weeks. Then you move on to phone conversations with this person. You’ve enjoyed his or her company virtually. But now you both say you’re ready to try a face-to-face meet. This person could be virtually anyone. Since there were no fees paid to use the service, there was probably no membership screening done. Hi or her images and personal information could be completely false. And this person could have done it all just to convince you to meet in person. Sadly, this isn’t unusual and happens all time. Not everyone who does this is malicious or intends to hurt the person being deceived, but too often, that is exactly what he or she means to do.

If you were to meet someone from a free dating site and you were to be robbed or otherwise assaulted, what information can you give to the police? How are they going to find this person when there is no credit card on file or other form of official payment information?

You won’t have to worry about any of these drawbacks on a paid dating site. While they will certainly charge you a fee, you’ll also get much more in exchange. You won’t be sifting through paid advertisements or dumping spam from your e-mail box.

The user interface for paid dating sites lets you do much more, such as performing elaborate search functions. And many offer alternate ways to communicate outside of e-mail. For instance, some sites offer instant messaging or webcam chatting.

Paid sites offer another perk, one that is very subtle and often undervalued. If you eventually found someone you liked, and you set a date to meet, you have some assurances; the other member’s real personal information is on file with the dating site.

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I will start from the beginning. My daughter thought it would be so easy for her out town friends and family to shop online. Walmart in Canada does not have a registry but you can use their .com site. So my daughter and her husband spent several hours scanning items and adding items online to their baby registry. We have a friend in Kentucky who wanted to buy her a gift and went online. She found the items to purchase and when she tried to put down the shipping address it would not accept it. Apparently you can make a baby registry but not have it delivered to Canada?? So she decided to buy a gift certificate and sent a note to my daughter asking her to buy certain items that she had chosen. The gift certificate arrived, we went to Walmart and went to the baby section. The baby quilt set she wanted is not available in Canada!! So we decided to buy other items and are looking into a way of purchasing it in the U.S.A. and getting a friend to bring it over the border for us. We got to the cash register and the girl said she could not accept the gift certificate, we told her that we had phoned the head office and she said there would not be a problem we just had to ask for the Manager. The cashier came back and said the Manager asked if we would be going to the U.S.A. soon as she could use it there. My daughter is 8 1/2 months pregnant!! and we live nowhere near a border. I told her to get the Manager to phone into head office, the cashier told us we would have to wait awhile as it could take a long time. My daughter found a chair and I put our other things in the car. When I got back to the door of Walmart my daughter was waiting and said they told her that the card was not valid. How could that be? Our friend had a receipt in the envelope! So we left, empty handed and ready to take our business to Babies R Us.

So, Walmart you suck. I have sent you an email and will be calling again today. One thing a pregnant lady does not want to do is run all over the place in order to get all her baby needs. That is what a registry is for!! Make your website clearer, and educate your Managers a little. Asking my daughter if she is going to the U.S.A. soon is not a solution!!

Anyone else experience the same problems?

Update august 13, 2008

After several phone calls to the U.S. WalMart and Canada this is what happened. Canada said, why don’t you spend the gift card on the .com(american site) sounded easy enough. So off to their website, I made a big order including the one thing my daughter wanted most, got to the part where you add the gift certificate and it worked, then it said for remainder of order payment put in your credit card. Guess what? They will not accept Canadian credit cards!! So I phoned the American customer service number for the website, I was finally passed to a supervisor who said well, maybe we could take off the shipping if that would help. Yes, it would help I replied. But the catch is, in order for her to take of the shipping I needed to give an American credit card with an American address. Back to square one. My solution? I put the one item in that my daughter wanted badly (not available in Canada), if you ask for the item to be sent to a store you SAVE on the shipping cost. I did that and it was just under the amount on the gift card. Now all I have to do is get a good friend to pick it up. They live in Windsor, Ontario and go to Michigan on a weekly basis. My husband will then pick it up from them (4 hours drive one way) Man I feel I have gone through labour on this one!

Filed under: Baby Story - pregnancy - through birth on August 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Well it has been some time, I thought I would post every week but after awhile I did not want to weigh myself. I wanted to judge my weight loss by the clothes I was wearing. I started wearing belts on my capri’s, two pairs of jeans just will not hold up anymore and I had to buy some new bras.

I have tried everything, exercise, Weight Watchers..and a few others and I have finally found something that works for me. I am nearly 30 lbs down…when I look at 5 lb bags of potatoes I look at them in a totally different way..to imagine that I lost that much

I would love to post a before photo of me, but I think I will when my journey is over. I am not calling this a diet, as Isagenix’s is not a diet. It is weight loss, but also cleansing and gives you so much more energy. I just dusted off my bicycle and if it is not raining tomorrow I am going out for a bike ride. I would never have done this back in April. I never had the energy. Have any of you tried Isagenix’s. Click on this link for more information

Filed under: Weight Loss on August 10th, 2008 | No Comments »

This is a whole new experience for me. I am so excited, we have got the bassinet ready, washed the old pram (I saved mine from England it is a Silver Cross) my daughter has her bags packed and the babies bag so now the waiting game. All her husband needs to do now, is to remember to grab the bags. We know it is a boy and his name will be Jack. We even know what he looks like to a certain degree, my daughter when for one of those 3D Baby places. It is amazing, what an experience. If anyone is interested I will post one of the best shots here. We are going to have a baby shower after the baby is born, it will be more of a birth celebration than a shower. We just want to have all our closest friends and family with us to celebrate the birth. I hope the weather holds up. It has been a very wet summer that is for sure.

There seems to be quite the baby boom this year, and mostly boys. Look out guys 20 years from now there is going to be a shortage of women haha.

I did not realize all the things you now have to take to the hospital. Hospitals do not provide anything anymore, no personal items for the baby or Mom. I remember when they did that with the schools. Remember when you got your pencils and paper from school. O.K. maybe I am dating myself here, but the times sure have changed. So we went online and did a search and found a complete list and printed it off. Looks like we have everything

Well Katie only has 4 weeks left, I will keep you posted.

Filed under: Baby Story - pregnancy - through birth on August 10th, 2008 | No Comments »

“Build it and they will come.” I love those famous sayings from movies. But that is exactly what I did. Back in 1998 I had people asking me to make a website just for Canadians seeking other Canadians to date. Ten years later the singles network has expanded even more to fit the needs of all single Canadians. My first customer back in 1998 was a single mother. She telephoned me and asked what her chances were in posting her profile on a dating site and actually finding someone who would be interested in a single Mom. She had two kids, worked in the medical field and was a very good looking girl. I told her that she would never know unless she tried and what did she have to lose. I could not believe it, this girl got more responses then a lot of the other women on my website. Every Monday she would phone me and tell me about the men that she met. She never turned down a date, she dated older men, a man who had a bad stutter and her dates were always interesting. It took her about six months and she finally met a guy who lived in Alberta with his daughter, but he was from Toronto and eventually moved back. She had several rules, she never brought anyone to her home, and they always met her kids last. She told me that her priorities had changed a lot since her husband left her and she did not want to make the same mistakes, but she also had to consider a partner that would be good for her and her children. Some of the men she met wanted to know how often her children would be visiting with her husband, that was a warning sign for her right away. At least they were honest and she could deal with it right away and find out if the men actually liked children or if hers were going to be a problem. The obvious difficulties for a single parent is getting a baby sitter, but later it is a good idea to include children in the date. The first few dates are about getting to know each other, then when you are comfortable include the children. Go to a mini putt, bowling, the movies etc. if your date also has children it would be a good opportunity for them to meet each other. But remember, depending on their ages there may be some rivalry which happens in families. Girls not wanting their Daddies to be with other women, or boys not wanting their Mommies to be with anyone else too.

Take it slow, take time to get to know each other and time for your children to get to know each other. Remember everything that happens to you has happened to a lot of other single moms and single dads.

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Filed under: Dating on July 31st, 2008 | No Comments »

I was so happy the other day to find someone on Twitter who is a Gay coach. No, not for sports but for single Gay men. There are so many social networks out there I am overwhelmed, but I have to say it is another great way to meet people. And this guy has some great advice for gay men who are having problems with their social life and meeting a partner. As many of you know, I am the President of Singles Canada which is an online dating service. I cater to seniors, black, asian, single parents as well as the gay community. So many of my business contacts said to me that Canada was lacking a good dating service for the Gay community so I said if I build it will you join? The result? I actually opened two gay dating sites, one for Canada and one for the U.K. As I soon realized that Canada just loves the Brits and vice versa. I opened Gay Singlescanada as well as Gay UK Personals. Now back to my story about Twitter, I found a great guy who is actually a Gay Dating Coach. He runs a website and is very successful at what he does, so I thought I would interview him and see if he would be right for my customers. I am doing an email interview first and then will be calling him next week. I am so excited as he possesses the same energy and drive that I have and I know it will be beneficial for my customers who need help in their personal life. His Motto is “Remember, being single is not a burden, it’s an opportunity!” And I feel that it is a great opportunity for many of my gay male friends who have faced so many hurdles and difficulties in their quest to find a LTR (Long term relationship). So stay tuned, I will be posting the interview next week. In the meantime, please visit Gay Singles Canada or my UK gay website.

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I just watched this movie with my daughter who is 8 months pregnant. Talk about an eye opener. I did not know that the U.S.A. had the highest mortality rate! And that midwives are not popular only because of a lack of information. If you are going to have a baby, or are expecting this movie is a must. Rikki Lake had a home birth for her second child and she has started educating American woman about the choices you have for birthing. It seems when people imagine a mid wife they think home birth but that is not the case. My daughter is having her baby at a local hospital with the assistance of a midwife. She gets to choose her birth plan, the position that she wants to give birth, and if she wants any intervention as far as having an epidural, and the choice of pain relief

http://www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com/

Check out the movie and educate yourselves, you owe it to yourself and your baby

Filed under: Baby Story - pregnancy - through birth on July 28th, 2008 | No Comments »