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Glee Gum – All Natural Gum and Chewing Gum Facts -Review
Gum the way it used to be. Glee Gum arrived here this week for review and it didn’t take long for it to disappear. The slogan Gum the way it used to be makes Mom happy and the flavor made my kids happy. Glee Gum comes in a wide range of eight flavors and sizes. My kids loved the bubblegum flavor. Spearmint and cinnamon were some of my favorites, but it was hard to choose. Glee is available in Canada and the U.S. It is all natural made from rainforest chicle, harvested in Mexico and Guatemala. Chicle is a sticky substance that comes from the sapodilla tree. Interestingly, the gum…
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Rockport Shoe Deal
My husband recently bought these Rockports Who doesn’t love a nice pair of shoes? And good quality is important. I have a few brands of shoes that are my regular picks. Rockport is one of my favourite brands. Both my husband and I wear Rockport. They are good quality and extremely comfortable. Plus near our home a specialty family shoes store sells a wide range of Rockports. For a limited time if you sign up for Rockport Family, basically click on the offer and sign up for their web site offers, you get 20% off any pair. So if spring is time for shoe shopping, as it is around here,…
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Best Butter Tarts on the Planet
Butter tarts are one of my all time favourite treats. We have made these together many times here and every single batch of these quintessentially Canadian treats is an opportunity to experiment. There are so many variations that you can make when it comes to butter tarts. In fact we like our yummy Canadian desserts simple so the flavour shines through with every bite. We’ve dubbed these the best butter tarts on the planet and even writing about them makes me want to go grab the butter and sugar and start baking. Do not scrimp on the filling whatever you do. You can add walnuts or raisins or pecans, but…
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Finish Revolution Cleaner Dishes – What a Mess!
Lately I am totally digging cooking. No joke. Never thought I would be that gal. But ever since I turned forty. (An age I plan to stay permanently) I love cooking. I cook often now with my kids and we bake and we use our really old oversized crockpot too. We even run a regular Thursday series now called Cooking With Kids. It is all about easy recipes to get children involved in cooking. So we have a lot of dirty dishes and we use our dishwasher a lot. This is a new favorite pastime. Unfortunately the messes left behind are big. This is my epic vat of beef stew,…
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Wordless Wednesday – Wild Weather
Wordless Wednesday is a meme hosted on several blogs. I often link up over at Tara’s blog http://www.tarasviewoftheworld To read the post that explains this picture – the result of a really windy day in our neighbourhood – you can click here for more. Have a great Wednesday and take heed of your environment.
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Summer Sanity Savers: Simple Sewing Projects For Kids: Car Bags
My savvy friend got me thinking the other day about doing some more sewing projects with my kids. Sara is a heavy duty sewing expert. Well, in my opinion, she is. She sews a lot of cute clothing and makes quilts. My oldest daughter has been asking for months to get her hands on Grandma’s sewing machine, my new toy, and it seems this might be the right timing for her. So with that in mind, we hit Fabricland for a splurge and Youtube for a tutorial. And, over the next few months we will bring you a few of our ideas for Sewing With Kids, and even a few…
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Filling A Bucket, Stewardship and My Late Earth Day
Have your children ever read the book Have You Filled A Bucket? by Carol McCloud and David Messing Mine have read it a lot over the last year. You know that thing where you read a book repeatedly and are never really sure if your child is internalizing the message. Yeah that. It’s easy to wonder if your words fall on deaf ears sometimes. Well apparently mine are listening. That makes me 9,000 shades of proud. See, this is our neighborhood, today. It was and, still is, a crazed windy gale force kind of epic weather day. Naturally it was also recycling day today and so everyone put their tidy…
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Monday Mingle: April 23 – Productivity, Obsessions and #Ldnont
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The Looneyspoons Collection #giveaway – Canada and US
I love me some fun cookbooks. And I tend to gravitate lately towards those people who embrace their funny. Hear that @chickymara and @Housetalkn? So this cookbook, The Looneyspoons Collection, fits the bill for me. Because if I am going to cook, I might as well have fun at the same time. I am all kinds of multi-tasking spectacular that way. So first things first, Janet and Greta Podleski are the two FAB sisters I first heard about many many years ago when I was living in Kitchener and they hit the big time with, a teeny bit of help from The Wealthy Barber, David Chilton. Janet and Greta had…
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Cooking With Kids – Birthday Rainbow Cake
Hey there lovely readers. Recently my darling niece had a first birthday party and she happened to visit her favorite aunt for the occasion. So we used it as a great time to try out one of the amazing kid friendly birthday cake recipes I found on Pinterest. Rainbow Birthday Cake. It is super easy and fun. This is the link to the pin of the original that gave me the idea. It didn’t look exactly as in the pin, but here you go. http://pinterest.com/inkscrblr/cooking-with-children-linky/# So take your basic cake mix and mix it up. I used Betty Crocker, then divide batter into three or four bowls. Using food colouring that…