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Giveaway: Win a Pair of Marley Headphones from Future Shop!

Thanks to Future Shop, I had the chance to try out their Marley Jammin’ Positive Vibration headphones.   I don’t use headphones a lot, mostly because I’m picky about them.  The small ones in my ears tend to bug me and it’s not always easy to use...

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Activity: Make Your Own Bean Bag Toss Game

  Sometimes the games we play seem so simple it’s silly – but these are the things that my kids love (which makes me happy too!) This game was made with coffee stir sticks, recycled paper and an empty box.  I just set up targets and taped them to the...

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More Pretty Things (and more Downton Abbey Style)

  I thought I’d share some more of my pretty dishes from the china cabinet.  This time I am sharing my tea cups. For those of you in love with Downton Abbey like I am, you will understand how I want to use these more as part of an afternoon tea or something....

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Let’s Talk About Hunger (and how to help)

Annie, fantastic blogger of PhD in Parenting did this amazing infographic.  It’s worth sharing.  You can head to her post to find out how you can share it too. This is how to best make an impact at your local Food Bank. (and yes, every little bit does...

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Welcoming New Advertiser: Sandra Butler, Stella &Dot

  If you are like me, you either love clothing and accessories, or once upon a time did (I’m looking at before you, children).  I still love to dress up, but I took a pause from my necklaces, earrings and other bobbles when my kids were babies – it was...

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Children at Play: Interpreting the Scene

I really should take pictures of the scenes the kids lay out with their toys more often.  It’s hilarious. So, this was the scene earlier today – laying out a fierce battle that at one point was going to be against My Little Ponies or Dora (but his sister vetoed...

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Pinterest Weekly Round Up! 5 of my Favourites this Week

Once again, here are 5 of my favourite Pins from this week.  Let me know what you think! 1- A pretty great mantra for food and how we eat   Source: mainememory.net via Rebecca on Pinterest   2- It’s all I can do not to go and get the crock pot out right...

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Holy Fun, Batman

As part of the fun of being a Fisherprice Mom, surprise packages arrive at our door once and a while.  These packages have toys of course, and when a box of toys shows up it sends the kids into a frenzy.  Can we say excited? We opened the box on a Saturday morning and...

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Kitchen Renovations Continue – Designer Hired!

So after my post early in the new year about whether or not we will renovate this home we are currently in, or look to buy a new one, we quickly decided to stay put and renovate.  In re-reading the post, I suppose I was pretty well talking out loud to confirm what I...

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Activity: Counting to 100 using pennies and craft paper

As part of 100 days of school and Kindness Week, my son’s class was asked to count out 100 pennies to bring for donation to a local foundation.  I LOVE this idea.  Not only is it a great way to be kind, but it was a chance for us to talk about numbers and...

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Kindness Week: Writing about Kindness (and you can too!)

Kindness Week has begun!  Although we know that it should be year round, this is a week to really focus on what we can do, as individuals and as a community, to make our world (and that of our children’s) more kind. I’m blogging on the Kindness website this...

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Giveaway! Win Tickets to see the Ottawa 67s

Hockey is truly a Canadian sport.  It seems many (most?) children in Canada grow up watching it on TV, or playing it, or dreaming about playing it. My husband has always been a huge OHL hockey supporter.  He grew up in Windsor and over many years we have watched a lot of...

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The 5 Favourite Pins of the Week: Recipe, Kindness, Blog Help, For the Home

Here it is, 5 of my favourite pins from the week.  Add any of your favourites in the comments!! 1- I love this idea for the kids art work that can be rotated frequently   Source: cleanandscentsible.blogspot.com via Rebecca on Pinterest   2- With Easter coming...

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This and That: Kindness Launches, Bloggy updates, my role with momstown

I will admit, I think the weeks are flying by.  Despite each of the kids each having a cold (one worse than the other) for a weekend in February and myself run down (but better now!) there is nothing ‘slow’ about February. It’s mostly been filled with...

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When Mama Doesn’t Feel well

Today I was under the weather. Not serious. It started with a headache that I couldn’t shake, then the chills.  But in the end I suspect I’m just run down and fighting whatever the kids had the past couple weeks. But what is striking is how, as a stay at home...