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I have found these past few weeks of January to be a little challenging. Perhaps it’s been the post Christmas hangover, maybe the endless stuffy noses, fever and cough that keeps hitting everyone in our household, or just simply the frigid temperatures that make it hard to get…
The year is quickly coming to a close and 2019 is almost upon us! Have you started making plans for New Year’s Eve yet? Do you usually get a babysitter and head out with friends or do you do something as a family? So far we have always…
It’s that time of year again – when we make our kids sit on a stranger’s knee in hopes of getting the perfect Christmas photo with Santa Claus. When my kids were little they were pretty traumatized with meeting the big guy in red. Now that…
Everyone has different opinions on when we should turn our attention to, and start decorating and celebrating, the upcoming Christmas season. I try to wait until after we have celebrated Remembrance Day, and then I figure it’s all systems go. But, I wanted to at least LOOK and…
I think many of you will agree – visiting a pumpkin patch is part of a necessary pre-Halloween tradition. It’s always a fun outing for our family to visit a farm and choose the best carving pumpkins around. We try not to get our pumpkins too early…
I love Autumn, and particularly October which packs in Thanksgiving and Halloween into the same month. There are a number of things on my family’s to-do list leading up to Halloween, but right at the top of the list has to be Pumpkinferno at Upper Canada Village…
Summer is still officially a few weeks away, but the summer temperatures have arrived and the warm weather has me looking ahead to everything I want to do with the family over the next few months. There are so many fun places to visit with the family in and around…
The Easter long weekend is just around the corner and I am looking forward to some fun time with the kids – particularly taking part in a good egg hunt or two. I’m just really hoping it starts looking like spring outside soon and we don’t…
Winterlude has come and gone and it looks like the frigid winter temperatures are (hopefully) behind us. I have to admit, I’m currently out in Vancouver enjoying some family time on the west coast (temperatures here are currently colder than in Ottawa!!?). But, when we return to Ottawa…
It’s hard to believe that 2017 is coming to a close already. It feels like we were just kicking off the Canada 150 celebrations and now the wrap party is underway. 2017 has not been an easy year for my family, and the hardest part is yet to…
