Mom enjoys best of both worlds (source: North Shore News)

Some people think it’s impossible to balance being a mom and a career woman — but Sandy Gerber is proving them wrong. The Delbrook mother of two is in the running to be the 2009 SavvyMom Mom Entrepreneur of the Year, an honour that she couldn’t be happier to have. “It’s really exciting for moms in general that they have these types of awards, because it feels like recognition that I’ve done well in both areas of my life,” says Gerber, who was nominated by her sister on Savvymom.ca, a site that provides support for mothers across Canada. Click here to read full article.

Local moms know how to shop for back-to-school bargains (source: Chicago Sun Times)

Discount-blogging mom Jill Cataldo of Huntley cherry-picks drugstore and grocery-store deals — 9-cent notebooks, 5-cent rulers and a pack of 20 pencils for 19 cents — as she aims to keep her back-to-school shopping budget to no more than $10. “It’s not hard to do. Last year, I did it with $5 and change, but my daughter is in middle school this year and she needs protractors. Now, I’m at $8,” said Cataldo, mother of Angelica, 13, Ben, 4, and Will, 2. Cataldo, featured in the Sun-Times as a super-frugal mom when the recession was first developing, blogs about her couponing tips at JillCataldo.com. She keeps her daughter’s school supply list with her at all times so she can check off an item the minute she spots a bargain. Click her for full story.

Comic mom has last laugh (source: Calgary Herald)

Lori Gibbs will be the first to admit that her entry into the world of standup comedy was not the most glamorous of experiences. Three years ago, the 43-year-old mother-of-three decided she was finally going to chase the comedy dream she had been harbouring since performing jokes about the family cat to her appreciative parents as an eight-year-old. Although not a churchgoer herself, she agreed to perform at a religious gathering at a camp outside the tiny town of Caroline, southwest of Red Deer –population 515 –where parishioners were attending a potentially humourless “women’s healing retreat.” Click here to read full story.