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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…

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    21 Cute and Fun Mermaid Party Ideas

    July 14, 2017 - By 

    Ariel? Where are you girl? We have Ariel. She’s right here, ready to help you celebrate a party in style. Seriously though, everyone knows The Little Mermaid story. It’s one of Disney’s most admired timeless stories. Girls everywhere love Ariel for her fiery red hair and her independent spirit. Mermaid crafts, Mermaid stories and movies and dolls and Mermaid party ideas too! Everything Mermaid is fun when you are a kid. So, if your child is mermaid obsessed then these Mermaid crafts are fin-tastic! I love these Mermaid treats especially. I know I am not supposed to have a favourite…

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    family - Travel

    Five Free Travel Games to Make Road Trips More Fun

    July 12, 2017 - By 

    Travel games are a great way to make any trip better. They are especially good, however, for road tripping. Road trips involve long hours crammed together in the car, and while at first blush this can seem like a great way to promote family bonding, in a few hours, everyone typically is a little bit cranky. That being said, travel games can turn road trips into a fun experience from start to finish and free travel games are even better.   5 Free Travel Games to Keep the Road Trip Moving We all have our favorite games to play on…

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    family - parenting

    Stop Telling Me How To Do Summer – My Summer Mantra

    July 10, 2017 - By 

    I have a summer mantra this year. It’s a little bit like this You do you and I’ll do me. It’s definitely not new. It’s mine, and I don’t really care to hear anyone else’s opinion about how I do summer. YOU DO YOU. See, I wish I actually didn’t need to say this out loud. But get your hands off my summer. You do you. My summer mantra. YOU do your summer and I’ll do mine. This past two weeks since school ended, I’ve heard a zillion experts and read dozens of posts about people taking back their summer. Usually…

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    family - Food

    Memories of Mexico and Easy Summer Nachos with Guacamole #BornOnTheFarm

    July 7, 2017 - By 

    Summer in London, Ontario is all about the festivals. When we moved here 15 years ago and I started my job as a daily news reporter I was immediately taken under the wing of one of the senior editors. She’d come from Kitchener too. Over time, she told me about the area’s best restaurants. And she highlighted a few things to do at crucial holidays – for instance New Year’s EVE at Western Fairgrounds. But the biggest highlight that still stands out – all of the summer festivals. From May through to Labour Day this city’s parks are lit up…