We are just at the tail end of a long weekend. It has been so relaxing, we have had food friends and good conversation. Today, being the last day home with the kids – we did our usual breakfast morning routine, some learning sheet work (30min – 1hour tops?), free play, outdoor play and more […]
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Do you remember the last time you felt goosebumps when you saw something? That feeling of letting out a loud wow – widened eyes and everything. I will be honest – for me it has been a while. Just last week the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) were visible at different times and parts if you
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The idea to start having a gratitude jar came to me as I was about to toss out the pasta glass in the recycle bin a few weeks back. I was like mmmh how can our family dinners be more fun and get conversation going. I realized after a while the usual, “how was your
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We are currently in the dead of a Canadian winter so the days after school are pretty much drab for lack of a better word. Enter screentime. It becomes an easy default to get through the hour or so in between the end of the school day and when the evening routine, dinner and bedtime
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Play is one of those things with kids I feel is like a muscle. While not in the “use it or loose it” actual sense, because inherently kids just come wired to play. There are things we can do to really flex that play muscle in such a way that they “default to their play
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I WAS PRESENT WITH MY FAMILY This same weekend of my mini “Tech-Shabaat” experiment was the Saturday we had planned as a family to put up our Christmas tree. With my phone off at some distant corner, I was made to fully engage. I enjoyed dancing to Christmas music, hanging up the lights, ornaments and
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This is a picture of one of our sons hero figurines. Today as I was clearing the dresser I glanced at it and saw the blue rubber band wrapped around his left hand. I smiled. You see for the past four weeks or so my son’s hand was in a blue cast. I wrote about
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The other day my son asked me if I played video games growing up. I quickly replied oh yes. I remember trying to get the rings for sonic and jumping over brick walls to help Mario get to wherever he was going and of course getting the key to release donkey kong. He has a
Video Games – they dont make em like they used to and why it is problematic Read More »
I remember growing up my dads favorite line was, “Lets go for a ride.” In no time my mum siblings and I would pile into our little red car and off we would go. We would drive all over the place – seeing places and experiencing things that I am forever grateful for. I remember
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A few weeks before the school year started, hubby and I were desperate. Desperate because we had no after-school childcare. The school day ends at 3pm and between my hour commute thrice a week and hubbys client-facing work – there was no way either of us could make it back on time for end of
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