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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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    Last Chance Giveaways #adoption My Adoption Month – Giveaway Roundup

    November 29, 2011 - By 

    For the Month of November I have had a few beautiful adoption themed giveaways. There aren’t many entries so your chances of winning are pretty good. There is a beautiful necklace donated by Deborah Brennan. It says Adoption  is Love and it is truly gorgeous. Deborah is an adoptive parent herself and the author of Labours of Love, a Canadian book about adoption. https://www.thriftymommastips.com/?p=1072 Click on the above link and that will take you to the post (part 3) so that you can enter. The entry is simple – all you need to do is follow the instructions. I think…

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    National Adoption Awareness Month Series – Our Story Part 4

    November 28, 2011 - By 

    A Tale of Two Adoptions (This is us holding Ainsley for the first time.) It was Christmas every morning for the first two years of life with our new baby. I sprang out of bed each day to see Payton. She woke up smiling and sometimes singing. And she was a much needed ray of sunshine. I raced to the closet or the bureau of drawers to choose her outfits and loved every second of that. She was delightful and quick and bright and alert and engaging. From the time she was two she was on the go and she…

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    Dog Tales

    November 25, 2011 - By 

    This is my Ainsley. She struggles with a lot of stuff, reading especially. And noises and information and sensory overload. But reading has been a particular source of frustration lately. She is well behind her peers in this skill. And it’s not for lack of trying. She has been sitting and holding books and we have been reading them with her from the time she was an infant. From Books for Babies to phonics to Oxford Learning Centre, we have tried it all. But still decoding language on the page has been difficult for her. She has special needs, a diagnosis of…

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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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    Our Story: Part Two: Becoming a Family

    November 14, 2011 - By 

    This is part two of our story on how we became a family through adoption. November is National Adoption Awareness Month and I encourage you now, this month, to ask the questions you have been wanting to know. Also if you have ever thought about changing the life of a child by becoming a foster care provider, then pick up the phone and call your local Children’s Aid Society. When we really were ready to pursue adoption, we knew nothing was going to stop us. But which type of adoption and where did we go and how best to approach…

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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…