Today is November 1st. In this house, that can mean only one thing besides the fact that it’s perfect weather for cuddling on the couch after a long night of ghoul dodging. Christmas is almost here! I know, it sickens you doesn’t it? You think I’m a total shill for the commercial holiday industry, but […]
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Hello there. Isn’t that a sexy face? How about this one? I guess this one is more of a pitiful face. It looks like someone beat him up. So what’s with the faces? This weekend we made our annual trip to get haircuts for the boys. We like to save a little moolah and only
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Time is moving quickly in our house, as every parent knows it does and it’s not slowing down any time soon. The kids often play together on the floor while I keep a watchful eye from the kitchen. How they once stood apart from one another staring only with an uncaring eye, they now show
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Today begins a countdown of sorts. Today is four short days from my husbands 29th birthday. What seems like the birthday before the big birthday is really the birthday. This is the last year of the twenties, the last year that he can get away with being a young un, the last year of youth
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Wonder. Your sense of wonder is so strong when you are so tiny. You gaze at the one holding you with such innocence in your eyes and smile with pure joy. I wonder what it’s like to be such an empty slate. I know I was once, not so long ago, also in such a
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Yup. I’m that Mom. This girl is going to be smothered in so much pink crap that she’ll be mortal enemies with it by the time she’s nine. Or maybe she’ll become as obsessed as I am… Having only had a boy before having this lovely girl, I had already succumbed to the thought that
I haven’t talked much about our trip to the Okanagan, so I thought I would share a short recap of our adventures. Really I just want to saturate this post in glorious pictures of my family. So there. The trip started with a short ferry ride across the Straight of Georgia or if you like,
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First things first, a giveaway! CSN Stores has been nice enough to offer me a chance to host a giveaway worth $80 of credit towards anything in any of their 200 stores and I’m very excited to be giving it away to you, my loyal readers! I don’t have a say in what you buy
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Side dishes. The forgotten ugly step-sister of your main entrée feature and for the most part, a quickly thrown together afterthought to round out the meal. In my youth, during the barren winter months, this would be a variation on a frozen vegetable theme. French cut beans, corn niblets, peas; zap it for 2 minutes,
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I’ll be the first one to admit that I’m not a big fan of cold weather. Which is strange really. I’m one of those women who needs it to be cool to sleep (you know the ones. The husband wants it to be warm, but the wife doesn’t. Someone always suffers. Well, it isn’t me).
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