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Category: Family and Friends
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Beginner’s Guide to Setting Boundaries
It sucks feeling like you’ve been walked all over, or taken advantage of. Maybe it’s been happening so long, it’s starting to feel like the norm?
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My Life With Andria
I want to share with you the story of my daughter Andria. Andria entered this world just over 14 years ago, after a wrenching 49 hours of labour. She was 6lbs 15oz and I was just 23 years old at the time. I remember looking at her in my arms and thinking about the amazing life…
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Coping With Family Stress Over Easter
Doesn’t it seem that while we can’t wait for long weekends to get here, once a holiday weekend arrives you can’t wait for it to be over? Easter weekend (and any holiday, really) can often be wrought with anxiety, stress, and family blowouts for many of us. If family gatherings have you reaching for yet…
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10 Great Things About Nadia!
Catchy title, eh? Thanks for reading anyway. Truth is, this post is more for me than for you. Over the last few days (weeks? maybe longer?) I have felt – and mostly ignored – the mounting and overwhelming feelings of insecurity, uncertainty and general self-dislike. This happens from time to time, and usually ends the…
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How to be a stepmother – 101
If you had told me 5 years ago that 5 years from then I would have three stepsons I would have thrown my head back and laughed and laughed and laughed. A few reasons for this: 1) I don’t have boys. I have girls. I practically WILLED the girls to be girls. When I was…
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Love is kind
It’s been a crazy month and a half. I couldn’t believe it when I logged in to find out my last post was in January. I would like to humbly admit that my first attempt at my second attempt of the love dare didn’t go well. To be brutally honest, Brent and I have had…
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Mosquito’s Find Me Tasty!
Recently, I snuck away to Cancun with Brent. And boy, did we *sneak*. Only two people knew we were going before we left…best trip ever 🙂 We chilled, relaxed, did a little flyboarding, and slept in every day. I’m noticing a trend with mosquitos – that is, I never see them, yet they manage to…
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The Sniffling-Sneezing-Stuffyhead-Sorethroat-Ifeellikedying
Uggggggggghhhhhhhhhh. I’m sick. I hardly ever get sick. Probably because God doesn’t like to inflict sick Nadia on my friends and family. I immediately turn into a clingy-whiny-needy brat. This started on Tuesday of last week when I completely lost all drive and energy and fell asleep sitting up at a church potluck at 6pm.…
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Saturday Breakfast is the Best Ever
There really is nothing better than breakfast on what I call the “full kid” Saturday. Every second week, we have all 5 kidlets, and by Monday afternoon Logan is putting in his order for Saturday morning pancakes. When he is older, I’ll tell him that my pancake recipe is really, really healthy. This past week,…
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Camryn Lamers aka Dr. Seuss
So, I decide I’m taking the girls tenting at Sibley last weekend. I got a variety of responses to this: everything from “Oh that will be so fun!” to “You realize that ‘tenting’ means sleeping in a tent, right Princess?” Truth be told I’m quite the camper. In my pre-kids days Anita and I spent…