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When They Exceed Your Expectations
My children have both given me hundreds of proud moments. They both excel at something. My eldest is bright and talented and pretty much every year from the time she started school she has won awards. Student of the month. Check. A’s in every subject. Check. Friends. Check. She is a beautiful smart and creative overachiever. My youngest child is now six. She is beautiful and smart and incredibly athletic and she also has special needs. I love her madly and we agonized for years over the choice of school for her. We kept her at a great private preschool as long as possible. She did her junior and senior kindergarten…
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My Christmas Card To Premier Dalton McGuinty
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Proactiv Canada Blog Tour: Challenge Week 1 and Giveaway
What do I have in common with Avril Lavigne, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry? My beautiful voice of course (Joking!) The real answer is: my skin care regime. As part of Mom Central Canada’s latest blog tour I have been offered a challenge and a giveaway. Two of my favourite things. So I am now on the new Proactiv Canada blog tour which means I get to try their products for one month and document the changes to my skin. So far, I have been surprised by the gentleness of the products. Also I didn’t realize Proactiv was created by dermatologists. I had an image in my mind of scratchy abrasive…
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Monday Mingle: Snow Days
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Gift Hunting: Empire Theatres Give and Get Program
I am a big power shopping, bargain finding, coupon clipping momma from a long line of the same. I start my Christmas shopping early. In fact, I usually kick off next season’s shopping on Boxing Day. I try to stick to budget and I don’t jump on the latest trends right away. I research and make informed choices. I hate waste. I don’t like toys or products that break. I really love things that serve at least two functions. I don’t mind the hunt, especially if I know I am scoring the best deal in town. I love programs, sales and retailers that give me a little something something back…
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Snowmageddon and Welcome Wednesday
Dude, Where’s My Car? Well, here it is Wednesday and unheard of for us it is a snow day. Not only that, but a snow day, again. That’s right. Three days in a row. In September when I was in Asheville I chuckled at the ladies I met there when they stated that their city ground to a halt if they got two inches of snow. Ha! We, never grind to a halt, I bragged. I don’t know what it would take to have schools close here, I chuckled. We can have two feet of snow and still be expected to get our hearty Canadian children to school. Well, as it turns out…
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CSN $45 Christmas giveaway
This time of year, I do a lot of my shopping on line. One excellent spot to find good quality products and great deals are the family of CSN Stores. Lucky me, I am a preferred blogger and as such get to offer my readers some great giveaways through CSN. Right now I’ve got my eye on some of the great toys for Xmas and the furniture selections are amazing too. Order now to receive your products by Dec. 24th. CSN makes it easy. Right now all items guaranteed to arrive by Christmas are marked with a snowflake on the sites. Also there is an extended return policy this year. CSN…
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Quaker Wellness Journey and Sodium
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about our family commitment to eating a more natural diet. We are still on that dietary journey together – so to speak and we are reading our labels and trying to buy smarter when it comes to food. But a visit from my Mother a week ago caused me to open my eyes to another hidden enemy of healthy eating: sodium. Leave it to a 75-year-old to point out that my freezer contained many foods with too much salt. I had no idea. See, my mother whose blood pressure fluctauates now has to watch these things and eat less salt. I know that’s a…
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Sharing Smiles: Win a $100 Gift Card to Hasbro Toys – My Biggest Giveaway Yet – US Only
In the spirit of Christmas I want to make one lucky reader’s day by giving them a $100 Gift Card to purchase items at Hasbro Toys On Line. http://www.hasbrotoyshop.com/ I received this one a couple of weeks ago and was thinking about using it for my kids. But honestly I got thinking today as I wrote my Demento Bunny Smiles post that my kids have enough toys and I would rather share this with someone who can really use it. $100 can buy some gorgeous Christmas presents. Hasbro makes some amazing toys, including great games, super hero figures, Tea Cup Pups, Operation and My Little Pony to name a few. Baby Alive…
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Demento Bunny and What Makes Me Smile
On winter days when there is a chill in the air and it takes longer to get the kids out the door it is hard to find things to smile about. But these are precisely the times we need reminders of where we find our smiles. For us, here at the house of anything but normal, my kids give me reason to smile every day and my husband’s dopey one liners that he thinks are funny often give me reason to smile too. (Don’t let him know. It only encourages him.)This picture here makes me smile. We had it printed and hung it in the kitchen. We call it demento…