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Tooth Fairy Tales and How to Fix the Fails
My Payton has had a wobbly tooth for about one month now, so we’ve been anticipating the tooth fairy visit for a while. Her wobbly teeth seem never to be nudged along by prying hands or crunchy foods or anything else for that matter. She is content to let them fall out when they are ready and that’s okay by me. It’s the kind of girl she is. Cautious and happy to just take life as it comes. Our Tooth Fairy Adventures Anyways, it is the sixth or seventh tooth she has lost. The process should be firmly entrenched by now in our house, right? We should be old…
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My New Vlog
Well, in the spirit of growth I am trying my first vlog. That’s right. Mama’s giving this a shot and she got her self a brand new little camera thingy (read: gadget) just in time for summer. Wahoo!! No stopping me now. So this is me telling you all about my excellent, cute, adorable and sporty new Kodak Playsport. $159.99. Good price and well watch vlog to see the rest. PSST. I will get better at this, by the way.
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Happy Birthday and Sales
My gorgeous first-born child is nine years old today and that is truly cause to celebrate. To the girl who made us parents: I wish you a happy year full of challenges you can manage, as many hugs as you require, as much love as a heart can hold and as many friends as you need. I hope you will grow healthy and stronger by the day. I hope you will trust that who you are is good enough and then some. This picture is her last day as an eight-year-old spent celebrating Canada Day at Harris Park. This year we will travel to Niagara Falls and have a…
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Toilet Water and Welcome Wednesday
If I had a dime for every time my kids did something that stunned me and made me fall down laughing, well I would be a very wealthy woman. The beautiful wild thing about parenting and having children is the very unpredictability of it all. A friend of mine who sat on a panel of adoptive parents with me a couple of weeks ago described her adoptive experience like this. She said it was a very calm easy slow process at the start that lulled them into believing parenting would be the same. They filled out their adoption application, waited, did the PRIDE training and read books about parenting and…
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Ironic Awards Day
On this rainy Monday I am blogging quickly about my first award. Yay me! The Sunshine Award – funny and slightly ironic name for the award on a day like today. (Booming thunder drumroll in the background.)Anyways so this is me thanking my readers for one year of excellent support and comments and ideas. And also acknowledging Deb Kade, over at Lucas’s Journey With Sensory Processing Disorder for giving me this award. Thanks much my lovelies. Now for this next year of growth and partnerships I look forward to having you visit me at one of my other blogs http://www.thriftymommasbrainfood.blogspot.com/ or http://www.thriftymommagogo.blogspot.com/ I hope too to meet some of you…
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Welcome Wednesday and Snoezelen
Hi all. I spent my Wednesday morning at the local Community Living London Ford Access Centre doing a Snoezelen Room training. That was kind of cool to see the sensory tools they have hooked up for public use. All you have to do is take one two-hour training session on how to use the equipment and then call and schedule a timeslot. For those who don’t know, these rooms are great for kids and adults with any type of sensory needs or autism. I may have to try out their leaf chair myself next week when I take my daughter in with me. There is a hot room and a…
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Bingemans Grand Experiences and Lays Chip Trips
This was too funny for me to resist putting here and frankly here goes Mommy’s first attempt at vlogging. Be afraid! Be very afraid! I took my family on a day trip to Bingemans in Kitchener. It’s a waterpark, amusement park, camp site with splash pad and various other fun things. For full review come visit http://www.thriftymommastips.blogspot.com/ Also I saved money because I am totally rocking the Lay’s Chip Trips promos this summer. For more on that go here: http://tiny.cc/7hud0
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Bingemans Review and Frito Lay Chip Trips
On the weekend of Father’s Day we had our first chance to use one of our excellent Lay’s Chip Trips promotions. I took my husband and our two kids to Kitchener’s Bingemans Park, now called Bingemans Grand Experiences. You can see from the pictures how much my kids enjoyed the trip. Bingemans is a place where my brother and I used to go with our Mom when we were school-aged kids and we had fond memories of the place from decades ago. So it had a lot to live up to. The last time we were there the wave pool was still quite a novelty located on the outer perimeter of…
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Weekend Warrior post
So I was browsing around the other day and I found this excellent topic Weekend Warrior, started by the lovely blogger at Adoption of Jane. The idea is to educate others about special needs. So this is my post from the weekend – better late than never. This is my daughter Ainsley. She’s 6, beautiful, daring and athletic. She says Arm of Woir for Armoire and “No I willn’t” and that still makes me chuckle. She also was adopted at 5 months old and she’d been prenatally exposed to a number of substances, including alcohol and variours drugs. She has several diagnoses that are lasting as a result of choices…
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Thursday Giveaway Linkup
Happy Thursday. I just found this over at Someday Crafts and thought I might give it a try. So here’s how this one works. This is a giveaway linkup meaning that people with giveaways submit the link to the giveaway and follow or enter as many as possible, or as they wish to enter. No pressure, but again another fun way to connect with new bloggers. I submitted my Family of Four Pack Day Passes to Fort Rapids Waterpark In Columbus, OHIO. WE visited this amazing indoor water park and amusement spot last year and loved it. It was a very fun weekend we spent there after I finished speaking at a…