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    Santa Story DVD–Best Morning Ever Just Got Better #Giveaway

    November 7, 2012 - By 

    Your Santa Story arrived today and I ripped it open like a kid on Christmas morning. Your Santa Story personalized Christmas DVD will make you child’s Christmas morning 2012 even sweeter than ever before. A few weeks ago I replied to the email from the creator of Your Santa Story, a person I recalled meeting at Blogher in New York City in August. I volunteered to build My Santa Story to tell my readers about it and offer a giveaway. Your Santa Story isn’t just a cut and paste digitally created computer sleight of hand; it’s a well crafted, acted…

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    Great Chocolate Treats: Friendships and Fixing Bad Days #KinderMOM

    October 30, 2012 - By 

    My kids have clearly hit the October/November blahs at school. They leave in the morning a bit slower than they did in September and they have been coming home a lot less cheery than when the sun was out in full force. My one daughter is having some challenges with getting there again and she is upset often on returning home. There have been some issues with some other kids in class that are not easy to solve at all. This weighs heavily on a sensitive anxious child. The other day a big box of Kindersurprises arrived and I was…

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    Infertility Story – An Interview and Guest Post #OHIP4IVF #Onpoli

    October 29, 2012 - By 

    Ultrasound picture courtesy of Wiki images This is a piece that has been written by a friend of mine who lives in Ontario and went through in vitro fertilization (IVF) after infertility. I asked her to write it as a guest post for me here on thriftymommastips.com because she has always been extremely supportive of the Conceivable Dreams goal to grow awareness of the human and financial impact of infertility in Ontario. She supports the campaign to get OHIP funding for in vitro fertilization. Jane, and her husband, never told their parents about their battle with infertility and the arduous process…

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    Mary Tyler Moore Moment–#WordlessWednesday #fashion

    October 23, 2012 - By 

    Hats. My girl loves hats. I adore that she has strong fashion sense already and frankly this little picture was her Mary Tyler Moore moment. I couldn’t resist snapping. For several years I could have sworn this child was fashion dyslexic, but lately she has turned that theory on its head. So Hats off to you! Tiny fashionista. Wordless Wednesday is a hop and a photography meme. Link up at one of the many sites that host the #WW linkys.

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    Cooking With Kids – Yummiest Peanut Butter Cups

    October 18, 2012 - By 

    I couldn’t resist this Pinterest inspired recipe for my youngest child’s favourite treat in the entire world – well, other than pizza – Homemade Peanut Butter Cups with sea salt.These are so easy but first let me state clearly that this is a Pinterest recipe. It is not mine originally, but now I am so adding this to me on line recipe box. We duplicated all the details and took our photos and ended up with this. The original recipe comes http://www.blueeyedbakers.com/You don’t even have to cook it or bake it, just melt stuff and let it harden. Super easy…

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    The #LinkedMOMs chat is Frighteningly Good Tonight #Kindermom

    October 17, 2012 - By 

    Lions and Tigers and Goblins and Ghosts! It’s almost time for Halloween and since today is Wednesday you know what that means. Time for the #LinkedMOMs chat. Chat time is same as always – same bat time and same bat channel as they say on the telly! I have affected a British accent for tonight’s chat. I shall be drinking a spot of tea at same time as we are all atwitter on twitter. Get it?! Alright enough punny business. Join us tonight to find out what we are upto this week. And let’s all share our favourite pins for Halloween. Favourite…

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    Shopping With Kids Stinks – Thank Goodness for Sears Club Points

    October 15, 2012 - By 

    This shopping with kids post was sponsored and I received compensation and product in exchange. Saturday Shopping I spent my Saturday shopping. Oh now before you go getting all jealous, let me just state that we all went shopping. Yes, for whatever reason, we took leave of our senses and headed over to Sears at Masonville Mall in London all together. As a family, shopping. That’s right we went shopping with kids. What Were We Thinking? Yup, big family fun day here at the Schuck house. Winter Coats See, my kids have had crazy growth spurts over the summer and…

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    Win My Pretty Playhouse: 100 % Recyclable Playhouse for Children

    October 15, 2012 - By 

    How do you turn this into… My Pretty Playhouse?Well, you may have a chance to learn for yourself if you enter the giveaway portion of this blog post. First, you should know my kids totally screamed like the girly girls they are: “It’s like Christmas in October!” as I revealed this package from Boutique Cascades. The cool kid’s cardboard playhouse was unexpected. See, every Friday night at our house my daughter has a black belt training program she attends and then we eat dinner and it’s time for another person in my home to head off to martial arts and…

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    My First Bylines – Private Schools in Ontario Bloghop Expo #OKSchoolMem

    October 14, 2012 - By 

    It was grade two when I found my calling as a writer. No joke. Over the years, I vacillated a lot. I was on a path towards becoming an accountant in university when I remembered my grade school epiphany – and the fact that I stink at math. Oh, go ahead and laugh if you wish; I was many things in my head and my daydreams over the years. I was a professional dancer, a lawyer, a doctor, an artist, a veterinarian. But every time push came to shove, the pen hit the paper or the old commodore 64 was…