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    active family travel - family - Quebec - Travel

    Tremblant International Blues Festival – All the Shades of Blues

    August 10, 2017 - By 

    The village at the base of Mont-Tremblant is awake in a riot of Blues, Purples and Golds. Spotlights, instruments, televisions, bleachers decorate the pedestrian village. Crowds of all ages fill the streets and common spaces between restaurants and shops. Here the sights and sounds of the International Blues Festival wake you up and lull you to sleep in the middle of the month of July at gorgeous Mont-Tremblant in Quebec. On the 24th ever occasion of the Festival International Du Blues De Tremblant I am visiting with a group of travel writers. Together, we are experiencing the best of all…

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    family - Health

    How to Make The Most Of The Last Days of Summer

    August 9, 2017 - By 

    This post is sponsored by Bayer. To make sure these products are right for you, always read and follow the label. Summer always flies by much too fast. July, my favourite of all the months, slides by at a maddening speed. It is a quicksilver month. If you don’t squeeze a lot into that short little window it vanishes right before your eyes. Hopefully you had some great weekends, or a vacation at some point there. August brings with it a sense of urgency almost. I mean at some point in August everyone starts counting down the days left until school…

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    family - Health - parenting

    Water Safety – Keeping Kids Safe While They Have Fun

    August 8, 2017 - By 

    Water safety is something that should be in the forefront of every parent’s mind. Whether you have a pool, love the water park, visit the beach, or go swimming in your local lake or river, being safe on and near the water is crucial. All it takes is a few seconds for a tragedy to happen. Parents and caregivers can keep kids safe by making sure we practice proper water safety at all times. Why Water Safety is so Important Our kids were babies when we began swimming lessons through the Red Cross Canada program. Swimming is a lifeskill that…

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    family - Food - Health

    Goat Milk Triple Berry Smoothies for Back to School #BornOnTheFarm

    August 7, 2017 - By 

    Goat milk was not on my radar until my daughter started having allergy issues when she was little. We took her to the doctor for chronic ear infections, among other things, and he suggested we switch her over to goat milk. So we did for a couple of years, and we saw a vast improvement. These days, we’ve started using it again occasionally for lunches, as well as for before school and after school snacks. It’s normal for us to have several different kinds of milk in the fridge at all times. For us, Goat Milk is a handy and healthy…

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    family - homes

    Decorate Your Home with Canvas Prints from Canvas Champ

    August 6, 2017 - By 

    Decorate your home with canvas prints! No, I don’t mean paintings. I mean photo canvas prints. They’re an excellent way to commemorate family memories without the same old boring frame on the wall or 8″x10″ on the counter. With photo canvas prints, you can decorate your home with something unique. They’re quite attractive, with a photo quality image and that great canvas texture we all know and love. Decorate Your Home with Stylish Prints I have a few photo canvas prints in my home. They’ve become my simple way to add photographs to my walls or table tops and I like…

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    family - Giveaways

    Caribou Cabin – A New Line of Framed Whiteboards #Giveaways

    August 3, 2017 - By 

    Caribou Cabin is a new line of chalk, cork, pin, and whiteboards from one of my favorite companies, Posterjack. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know that I’ve used Posterjack products in the past, and I love them. Now, I’ve come back to them again to use one of their Caribou Cabin framed whiteboards. These boards look great, and they make adding a bit more organization to your home easy and stylish. These Caribou Cabin framed whiteboards and framed pinboards are also perfect for back to school. That’s exactly why we got one for our daughter.…

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    active family travel - family - family travel - Travel

    Visiting Lion’s Head, Bruce Peninsula #findthelionshead

    August 1, 2017 - By 

    Recently we were guests of Bruce County while visiting the area and as such we received accommodations and other compensation to share this experience with others.   Lion’s Head, just south of Tobermory on the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, is a beautiful and unique spot to visit. This area is laid back, picturesque, and friendly as we discovered recently when we spent the weekend exploring Bruce County. I’ve been to the Bruce Peninsula every year since I was a child, and it is truly one of the best ambassadors for nature’s beauty that anyone could find. However, until this summer I’d never…

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    What I Love About Mom book – Treasured Gifts

    July 26, 2017 - By 

    I need to tell you about one of the best gifts I have received this year. This adorable tiny What I Love About Mom book. What’s so unique about this fill in the blank journal gift? Read on to find out. This past month I celebrated my birthday. I am a July baby. For the first time ever I was away from my family on the day itself and in fact was zip lining with Ziptrek tours in The Laurentians, Mont Tremblant, Quebec. That was a great day and one of the most memorable ways I have ever spent my…

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    family - Giveaways

    Family Game Night with Yulu Toys – Win 2 Games

    July 26, 2017 - By 

    Family game night is something we try to do on a regular basis. Ever since my youngest girl was small she has loved games of all sorts. Card games and board games. She finds them calming in some ways, so my husband and I have made it a priority for all of us to play games with her when possible. Now that the girls are older, we don’t get to have as many game sessions as we used to, but recently my youngest child reminded me when she gave me a birthday card that one of her favourite things to do even…

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    family - Health - homes

    Better Sleep with Our Douglas Bed Canadian Mattress

    July 24, 2017 - By 

    An eco-friendly Canadian mattress company that helps with better sleep? It’s about time. Better sleep is in high demand in a lot of homes. Everybody wants a good night’s sleep. Unfortunately, that can be elusive for a lot of people. Better sleep starts in the morning with good habits, and it hinges on having a good mattress too. Our old mattress was well over ten years old. And my husband has had minor complaints about sleep for months now. When he injured his shoulder in the spring at work, his sleep deteriorated even more, which meant I also suffered. When I heard about Douglas Bed by Novosbed…