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    Happy Birthday and Sales

    July 2, 2010 - By 

      My gorgeous first-born child is nine years old today and that is truly cause to celebrate. To the girl who made us parents: I wish you a happy year full of challenges you can manage, as many hugs as you require, as much love as a heart can hold and as many friends as you need. I hope you will grow healthy and stronger by the day. I hope you will trust that who you are is good enough and then some. This picture is her last day as an eight-year-old spent celebrating Canada Day at Harris Park. This…

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    Toilet Water and Welcome Wednesday

    June 30, 2010 - By 

    If I had a dime for every time my kids did something that stunned me and made me fall down laughing, well I would be a very wealthy woman. The beautiful wild thing about parenting and having children is the very unpredictability of it all. A friend of mine who sat on a panel of adoptive parents with me a couple of weeks ago described her adoptive experience like this. She said it was a very calm easy slow process at the start that lulled them into believing parenting would be the same. They filled out their adoption application, waited,…

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    Ironic Awards Day

    June 28, 2010 - By 

    On this rainy Monday I am blogging quickly about my first award. Yay me! The Sunshine Award – funny and slightly ironic name for the award on a day like today. (Booming thunder drumroll in the background.)Anyways so this is me thanking my readers for one year of excellent support and comments and ideas. And also acknowledging Deb Kade, over at Lucas’s Journey With Sensory Processing Disorder for giving me this award. Thanks much my lovelies. Now for this next year of growth and partnerships I look forward to having you visit me at one of my other blogs http://www.thriftymommasbrainfood.blogspot.com/…

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    Welcome Wednesday and Snoezelen

    June 23, 2010 - By 

    Hi all. I spent my Wednesday morning at the local Community Living London Ford Access Centre doing a Snoezelen Room training. That was kind of cool to see the sensory tools they have hooked up for public use. All you have to do is take one two-hour training session on how to use the equipment and then call and schedule a timeslot. For those who don’t know, these rooms are great for kids and adults with any type of sensory needs or autism. I may have to try out their leaf chair myself next week when I take my daughter…

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    Bingemans Grand Experiences and Lays Chip Trips

    June 22, 2010 - By 

    This was too funny for me to resist putting here and frankly here goes Mommy’s first attempt at vlogging. Be afraid! Be very afraid! I took my family on a day trip to Bingemans in Kitchener. It’s a waterpark, amusement park, camp site with splash pad and various other fun things. For full review come visit http://www.thriftymommastips.blogspot.com/ Also I saved money because I am totally rocking the Lay’s Chip Trips promos this summer. For more on that go here: http://tiny.cc/7hud0

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    Bingemans Review and Frito Lay Chip Trips

    June 21, 2010 - By 

    On the weekend of Father’s Day we had our first chance to use one of our excellent Lay’s Chip Trips promotions. I took my husband and our two kids to Kitchener’s Bingemans Park, now called Bingemans Grand Experiences. You can see from the pictures how much my kids enjoyed the trip. Bingemans is a place where my brother and I used to go with our Mom when we were school-aged kids and we had fond memories of the place from decades ago. So it had a lot to live up to. The last time we were there the wave pool was…

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    Weekend Warrior post

    June 21, 2010 - By 

    So I was browsing around the other day and I found this excellent topic Weekend Warrior, started by the lovely blogger at Adoption of Jane. The idea is to educate others about special needs. So this is my post from the weekend – better late than never. This is my daughter Ainsley. She’s 6, beautiful, daring and athletic. She says Arm of Woir for Armoire and “No I willn’t” and that still makes me chuckle. She also was adopted at 5 months old and she’d been prenatally exposed to a number of substances, including alcohol and variours drugs. She has…

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    Thursday Giveaway Linkup

    June 17, 2010 - By 

    Happy Thursday. I just found this over at Someday Crafts and thought I might give it a try. So here’s how this one works. This is a giveaway linkup meaning that people with giveaways submit the link to the giveaway and follow or enter as many as possible, or as they wish to enter. No pressure, but again another fun way to connect with new bloggers. I submitted my Family of Four Pack Day Passes to Fort Rapids Waterpark In Columbus, OHIO. WE visited this amazing indoor water park and amusement spot last year and loved it. It was a very fun…

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    Welcome Wednesday

    June 17, 2010 - By 

    Hi all. I am trying something new here on a rainy Wednesday night. The awesome Take It From Me has started a sort of social bloghop. Visit http://www.takeitfrom-me.blogspot.com/to find out the details. Basically every Wednesday you visit and enter your blog url and then follow the directions. It’s a good way to meet some new blogger and attract some new followers too.

  • family travel - Giveaways

    Giveaway Roundup and Blogaversary

    June 14, 2010 - By 

    Well here it is the one year Blogaversary of thriftymommastips, now thriftymommedia with thriftymommasbrainfood and thriftymommagogo, and I am ready to celebrate my biggest giveaway yet. I am going to draw for this one on June 28th, so hurry up and enter. The prize is a family day pass for four at the excellent Fort Rapids Waterpark in Columbus, Ohio. It’s about a five hour drive from London, in case you were wondering. But for those of you who are stateside this one will be even easier to get to. We travelled to Fort Rapids last year and loved it.…