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    Zero Tolerance For Bullying Not Good Enough

    December 1, 2011 - By 

    My daughter Payton. Both my kids have at one time or another been bullied. One of my children could also easily be perceived as a bully. She is not, but she has special needs and is frequently mishandled, undersupervised and left to handle situations she cannot because of her disability. My heart breaks when I read of kids who have ended their lives because of bullying. This is tragic every time and I can see too easily how a child could feel that there is nothing good in the world when school is not a safe place. I believe bullying…

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    KinderMoments #KinderMom

    November 30, 2011 - By 

    My KinderMoments is a fabulous Facebook app you can have a bit of fun with while saving your special photos of your children. I don’t know about you, but frankly the photos of my kids over the past ten years are so plentiful that I am forever looking for fun ways to change them up, or use them, frame or scrapbook them. KinderMoments is a great way for me to share our recent celebrations and family moments with the other important people in our lives. KinderMoments facebook app is easy to use and there are several frames to choose from.…

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    A New Twitter Hop

    November 24, 2011 - By 

    http://thislilpiglet.net/category/twitter-pop-hop/ This is a new twitter hop hosted by my on line friends Tales of a Ranting Ginger and Stacie from This Lil Piglet. I like these gals quite a bit and they have been working hard here to build their blogs and businesses, so I want to show them some love. This is a new hop, as I mentioned to run every Wednesday. The rules are follow the first two hosts and then follow the other tweeple on the list. Link upo your twitter handle and make some new friends. Today I met a few new people already and…

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    November 22, 2011 - By 

    Well, this is one sale I wish I didn’t miss. We don’t have Black Friday up here in Canada. Just once I would love to say that I had made it to the Black Friday sales events. For the experience. If you have been leave me a comment here about the best deal you ever landed on Black Friday. The good news these days is that we don’t need to leave the house to get some of the deals going around right now for Black Friday. Also geography can be pretty irrelevant for shoppers with ecommerce being such a great…

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    National Adoption Awareness Month – Our Story Part Three

    November 21, 2011 - By 

    This is the picture of the day we met our daughter over ten years ago now. People often ask me how the process was and when they hear we adopted domestically they are astonished. I often say: Have you seen our beautiful girls? I could never complain about either one of our adoptions. We got two gorgeous daughters, we got to be parents and we found a great community of friends in the process over the last decade and we have found a passion advocating for other families. Part 3: This is part three of my series in honour of…

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    Do You Know How To Save a Life?: Red Cross CPR Tweetup

    November 17, 2011 - By 

    Do you know how to save a life? If not, why not? If so, then I am guessing you have at one time or other been involved in  a Red Cross CPR course like this one shown above. This is our fabulous host and instructor Kris (blue shirt) demonstrating proper technique if an adult is choking. (The choking victim is Jen Mayville (or @jmayville) and she was a gracious and wonderfully funny host too.Remember five back blows then bend standing adult victim over and five chest thrusts. And then just like in the movies your victim should cough out that…

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    Barbie Girls: #BarbieICanBe

    November 13, 2011 - By 

    I’m a Barbie girl. Er, well now a Barbie Mom. I grew up on Barbies. They were some of my first toys, my favourite toys and I collected them by the dozens. Barbie campers. Barbie cruise ships, Barbie cars, Barbie clothes by the case. Kelly, Skipper, Midge and yes, even Ken. I loved those dolls. The singular smell of a new Barbie still has the power to send me back to the 1970s where Barbie was, in my room, master of her world. Not mistress. She danced and dreamed and charged forward through space and captained boats and then came home to…

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    Friday Finds and a Santa Claus Parade

    November 11, 2011 - By 

    It’s time once again for London’s Santa Claus parade. This is my family at the parade last year. The year before that I think it poured rain and I took no pictures but hid under an awning and shivered. Saturday night Santa Claus will make his way down Dundas Street as usual. The night parade starts at 6 p.m. London Transit is offering free bus rides to those headed to the parade. TheMet will be open serving hot chocolate and having a bake sale. Don’t forget a can of non perishable food and mail carriers always take the letters to Santa…

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    Sending Virtual Comfort and Hanes

    October 29, 2011 - By 

    Every woman knows someone who has been touched by cancer. And if you know someone right now struggling with the incredible challenge of a health care battle that is so emotionally and physically draining you know it’s not always easy to find the words that say what you mean in light of the terrible daily reality. There are cards and presents and flowers. And they all have their place. Nothing is as meaningful or helpful to a family dealing with cancer as real acts of support such as offering child care, or bringing food or driving a loved one to their doctor’s…