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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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    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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    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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    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…

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    Teethease Review – Save your Hair, Get a Teethease Necklace

    October 11, 2012 - By 

    By Brooke Berry This is my teeny 4 pound baby when he first got home from the hospital.  He LOVES to grab things, mostly my hair.  Or earrings, or necklace.  I love the kid, but I like my hair too.   Have you seen these really cute necklaces?  Not only are they adorable but they are soft for teething kids.  My boys like to hold on to them (and thankfully let go of me) when they are cuddling with me.  Now that they are teething, this necklace has literally been a life saver.  Their lives.  Just kidding…  (kinda). I also…

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    Conference Craziness and #LinkedMoms chat #giveaway

    October 10, 2012 - By 

    Conferences. Conferences. Conferences. Everywhere you look right now, if you blog, or run a brand, or host any kind of digital site/website, there are conferences. Blissdom? Blogher? She’s Connected. Tweetstock? Just to name a few. GOALS: So which conferences are you going to? When and where and why? And what will you be taking? Can you share any special details or pins or lists with us? Are you sharing a room with friends? Are you parachuting in and flying out fast on Saturday night? Are you coming all the way and staying for a little extra sight-seeing?  This will be…

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    #WordlessWednesday –

    October 10, 2012 - By 

    Happy Thanksgiving – this is my daughter Payton, my niece Hannami and me enjoying a moment together on Thanksgiving Sunday. Wordless Wednesday is a photography meme. I like to link up here at Tara’s View of the World.