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Category: Mommyhood
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Jackhammers and Immigration Officers
Goodbye boys, hello new villa! Week 5! One week to go! We said goodbye to the boys this week as they ventured home and left us girls to fend for ourselves. On Tuesday, we had to move to a new villa. Our old villa was familiar an comfortable and I was sad to move, however,…
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Why I Don’t Celebrate Halloween
Halloween is in a few days, and each year I dread it. Want to know why I don’t celebrate Halloween? The store shelves are just about buckling from the weight of chocolate bars, pumpkins and severed limbs, and hyperactive kids across North America are testing their parents’ sanity. As far as I’m concerned, Halloween is just another…
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Date Night Ideas (With and Without Kids)
Sleep, eat, work, play. Repeat. Life with your other half starting to feel predictable? Partner feeling more like your roommate or business partner? Get out of the relationship rut with these date night ideas.
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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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Get to work, kids!
Letting our children work by cooking, cleaning, gardening, building, etc allows them more time to get really proficient at skills they can use later in life.
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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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Camryn – 1, School – 0
Camryn’s father and stepfather often get frustrated with her, but I get the kid. Primarily because she is the former version of myself. I remember being 7 years old, being completely right about something, and being overruled by my parents “because I said so.” I rarely have any issues with her, and let’s face it,…
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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…