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    Travel

    Six Secrets to Smooth Family Road Trips and License Plate Bingo Printable

    March 10, 2017 - By 

    License Plate Bingo is one of our road trip favourites. Since it’s closing in on spring and family road trips are just around the corner I figured it was time to share a few ideas on how to make family road trips a joy for everyone. A bit of planning goes a very long way towards making a road trip fun and memorable. We’ve taken some amazing road trips this past 12 months. Even the winter didn’t deter us. Last summer we did the 8 hour drive to Quebec to visit Outaouais Region and Gatineau as well as the amazing Chateau Le Fairmont…

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    Parenting

    “It Still Hurts” – Foster Care and Adoption Triggers – Teens

    March 9, 2017 - By 

    A smart person once told me at an adoption conference that adoption is not an event. Adoption is for life. So what does that mean exactly? In fact, adoption continues to be a piece of who you are as a family, as a person, long after happy court is done. Through elementary school and high school, children and teenagers also have adoption triggers. It is extremely easy to forget that adoption is not an event. From September to June the days mostly fall into a predictable rhythm. Wake up, get ready for school, leave for school. Hang out with friends and learn and…

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    family - Food

    Gluten Free Fireside Pie and Kids In the Kitchen – #BornOnTheFarm

    March 8, 2017 - By 

    Gluten Free Fireside Pie is the perfect comfort food for March weather. March Break is fast approaching and I don’t know about you but we are likely to be close to home. My older girl is traveling with a youth group, so my younger daughter and I will be hanging out together. Lucky for me, my youngest LOVES to cook and bake with me. I try to encourage that as often as possible. Cooking is a skill for life. This week we made a Gluten Free Fireside Pie together and it was the perfect comfort food for a Friday evening family…

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    active family travel - Food - Travel

    American Flatbread – Rustic Dining in the Heart of Ski Country #IFWTWA

    March 7, 2017 - By 

    American Flatbread brings rustic, oven-fired dining to the heart of Vermont’s ski country. With an atmosphere that invites you to relax and unwind while you enjoy their delicious food which features flatbread pizzas, great drinks and spectacular fresh salads, American Flatbread offers visitors a perfect marriage of great, fresh, food in a warm, charming, earthy, environment. American Flatbread – Built on A Belief In the early 80’s, American Flatbread’s founder, built a primitive oven using stone from his land. Wanting bread but not sure if the oven could handle it, he decided to make a flat bread. The bread was so well…

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    family - Health

    Spring Forward: Schedule These Six Daylight Savings Time Tasks #ChurchandDwight

    March 6, 2017 - By 

    Spring Forward with Daylight Savings Time Daylight Savings Time can be a good news, bad news kind of event. Good news – it stays light later at night. Bad news – changes of any kind can throw the kids for a loop and sleep sometimes is completely messed up due to the time change. But, regardless of whether you love it or hate it, Daylight Savings Time can be a reminder to manage certain household tasks that you sometimes neglect or forget. March 12th marks Daylight Savings Time this year – the day we welcome a much needed extra hour of…

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    family

    A Consignment Shop That Makes Perfect Sense and a Chance to Win $100 #KidCentsFashion

    March 5, 2017 - By 

    If you haven’t discovered the beauty of buying and selling at a consignment shop yet, then you are in for a treat. Kid Cents consignment shop in the Lambeth area of London is a hidden resource for thrifty shoppers. It’s also a beautiful little opportunity to make income from your gently used clothing and household items. Kid Cents – A Consignment Shop that Brings Its A Game I have aways been an avid deal seeker. My Mom was a resourceful shopper out of necessity, and I grew up knowing the power of a sale. We shopped consignment shops when I was a…

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    Health

    On The Road to Planning A Family #ChurchandDwight

    March 3, 2017 - By 

    You have reached that point where you are ready to start Planning A Family. You feel ready to start a new life together as a family and you are hoping to conceive quickly. OR you are hoping to adopt quickly. But there are a million questions still, and pregnancy isn’t always as easy as it seems on TV. So what do you need to know? My readers here know that I am an adoptive parent, blogger and social media consultant. I community manage a few infertility patient groups. I know more about fertility, infertility and adoption than I do about…

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    Food

    20 Magical Unicorn Treats

    March 2, 2017 - By 

    These unicorn treats are just plain fun. Like Pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows. Oh come on you all know that tune. Right? My kids sang it non stop last year. It was a Youtube craze. Anyways mythical unicorns have always been slightly magical and mysterious. So seeing them reflected in food and pop culture right now isn’t that shocking I suppose.   Here are 20 Magical Unicorn Treats:   Cookies and Cups – Unicorn Bars Aww Sam – Rainbow Marbled Unicorn Pop Tarts Chocolate Covered Katie – Unicorn Fruit and Yogurt Smoothie Totally the Bomb – Unicorn Poop Cupcakes…

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    Limeapple’s Bubble Hoodies Give Back #BecauseICan

    March 1, 2017 - By 

    I have two athletic, talented, smart, comical girls that are fast becoming young women, and who seem busier than ever in 2017. This year has been a flurry of activity so far – from skiing, horseback riding, basketball, martial arts, travel, play rehearsals, and more. As a Mom, I choose clothing that lasts and works hard to keep up with my active girls. Limeapple fits every time. And Now Limeapple’s Bubble Hoodies also give back. We are particular about the clothing the kids wear and how it moves when racing back and forth to horseback riding, martial arts, dance, drama rehearsals,…

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    active family travel - family - parenting - Travel

    Making Memories All Year at Lakes of Wasaga #ParkbridgeLife #IFWTWA

    February 28, 2017 - By 

    Many of my happy childhood travel memories were set in, or around, Wasaga Beach. My Mom drove us to Wasaga Beach every year, until my brother and I were in high school. Our summers were spent making memories together in Collingwood and Wasaga. We were Three Musketeers, and we lived for those summer adventures. Now, decades later, I still treasure those times, even while building my own lasting family memories with my kids and my husband. This past Family Day, just like the one in 2016, we packed up our skis and gear and drove to Lakes of Wasaga. Our Family Ski…