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Wordless Wednesday and Strange Signs
For several years now my kids have been at the same school. In fact they may have been there collectively for close to a decade and you know journalists, well, we don’t miss much. Truly. Trained observers. Yup. So today when I spied this sign on the outer wall of the school, near the door we walk in every day I was not surprised. Nope, because, as I mentioned I am a trained observer. Eagle eyes, they call me. Well, not to my face. Because that would be overkill. Anyways today I read the fine print and doubled over laughing. Huge guffaws. SNORT! See the line about horseback riding on…
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Thriftymomma Goes to City Hall
Thriftymomma goes to city hall. Oh yeah and that’s my kid Ainsley, sitting in Mayor Joe Fontana’s chair. One of the best things about having children for me, an introvert and former shy person, is how they expand your world socially. Several months ago my youngest daughter befriended London city Councillor Sandy White. Ainsley has a way of doing that. At that time Coun. White offered to have Ainsley take a tour of city hall and it was something my quirky kid went nuts for. In fact she kept asking for several months when the tour was going to take place. Some kids twitch on Pokemon, others on hockey or…
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Monday Mingle – The One Where I Channel a Hillbilly
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Saturday Finds
Well this is a wee bit late, but I wanted to let you know there are a couple of great sales in and around London. At Western Fair the big story is the North by Northwest sale. Also Children’s Place has 30 % off. Some good food deals at Walmart too.
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Cooking With Kids Thursday Linkup
In case you missed last Thursday’s brand new feature announcement, here it is again. From now on every Thursday I am running a fun family bloghop. There is so much that is fun about Cooking With Kids. My children love cracking eggs and the sensory nature of beating batter, reading recipes, measuring and – of course, the eating part too. Just this week after launching the idea and letting them know we would all be involved in cooking and baking for my blog thriftymommastips, they were inspired and their interest in cooking and helping in the kitchen was sparked again. I counted easily four different recipes this week that we made together. The…
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#Wordless Wednesday – Confidence
Confidence This is my daughter Ainsley. On the weekend she graded to a brown advanced belt. This picture is just before the grading. She has been doing martial arts for three years now. We walked into the studio one day when she was four. On a Saturday morning when she had been playing with my eyeshadow (a nasty shade I couldn’t scrub off my daughter’s face) I asked if we could take a peek at a class. A fabulous instructor asked my then really hyper girl whose special needs and diagnoses had yet to be completely fleshed out if she wanted to see the class and she thrust her right…
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Cupid’s Cash Giveaway
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Monday Mingle: Sweet Tooth Edition
Hey gals and guys who link up, I have a special favour to ask of you. My story Detour, by Paula Schuck has been nominated for a reader’s choice award Tales of Bliss at Canadian Family.ca. The prize is a mystery basket of goodies. I would love for you to read the story and vote for me please. The link is here: http://www.canadianfamily.ca/2012/01/tales-of-bliss-story-competition-vote-for-readers-choice/
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Cooking with Kids New Feature Bloghop – Thursday
Last week we were inspired by the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.So we tried to replicate their Kid Clusters with M and M’s Welcome to my new feature. I am so excited to be running a new linkup called Cooking with Kids. I hope you will all take part and grow some new friends while having fun in the kitchen with your children. Children don’t need a whole lot of complicated ingredients, or big epic turkey dinner recipes from Epicurious. They love to keep it simple and if, yours are at all like mine, they love cracking eggs, beating up a batter, or stirring something thick and gooey. Many years ago…
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Wordless Wednesday Linkup: #ldnont Favourite Places
This is our favourite restaurant in London. It’s a little Japanese restaurant called Tanakaya at Covent Garden Market. This is my daughter who uses chopsticks better than I do. (My skills are improving and at least I am willing to try) And although my beautiful sister in law is Japanese I can never for the life of me remember what the heck these are called in Japanese. I think it might be Hashi.