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nutritious toddler muffins
BABIES! My little turdball buddies bring so much laughter and noise and fun and destruction to my house. (Yesterday alone, while I was making their lunch, they shattered my laptop screen and emptied a...
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Liliana-isms and daily photos
They say that if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all. We’ve had sick in our house for THREE HUNDRED YEARS and I’m not feeling very chipper. So, here are some Project 365 photos and...
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nice guys finish last
One of my goals this year is to run two 10Ks. I haven’t signed up for one yet, but I began training for one yesterday. The Saskatoon Police Half Marathon is on April 21st, which is twelve weeks and...
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roasted broccoli is my new candy
So, in keeping with this whole wanting-to-start-running-again thing, I figured I should start fueling my body with things that aren’t Wunderbars and mini marshmallows. *weeps* Venessa and I were at...
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Grace in Small Things: Sunday Edition #2
1. Books. And my ability to get lost in them. 2. Kiwi fruit. 3. Sleeping in on Saturday morning. (8:30! Score!) 4. Teaching toddlers the ways of “time-out.” 5. Late-night Star Wars (Episode V)(the...
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week four
A few Liliana-isms: Noah worked late the other day, and so I let the kids eat their dinner (chicken quesadillas) on a picnic blanket in the living room while they watched Ice Age 2. Liliana: “Mama, I...
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the most bestest pancakes (and oven bacon)
Noah was at his parents’ place Sunday night for a Super Bowl party, so it was just me and the kids at home, which meant that, during dinner, we had a picnic in the living room and watched a movie. I...
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week five
We’ve been a little entrenched in Harry Potter lately. Kaylie and I are both in the middle of reading the books (she’s on Book Five, I’m on Book Six)(I think this is my fourth time reading through them...
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the garden project, year two
After a week or so of snot-freezing-cold temperatures hitting -45°C/-49°F with the wind chill, we’re having a heat wave. As I type, it’s only -7°C/19°F! Shorts weather! It gives me hope that this...
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like running in the sand. but colder.
You know all those photos of celebrities running in the sand looking all fit and whatnot? What would be a REAL workout would be if they took their svelte selves to run IN THE SNOW. Because it’s...
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you don’t know me and you don’t wear my chains
I’ve fallen into a One Tree Hill coma. I forgot how much I love the music on that show. I used to be a huge OTH fan, but kind of gave up on it when Lucas and Peyton left. That and I no longer had...
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winter weary
I’ve heard it said by people who can just shut up, “You chose to live here! You can’t complain about the weather! You can’t do anything about it anyway!” They can just have a high five. In the face....
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his two cents
We Skyped with my in-laws last night, as they’re vacationing somewhere they can wear shorts and t-shirts, and they missed the snow. Or the kids. Or both. I know they can’t wait to get back and shovel...
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heal the wound but keep the scar
they say that time heals all wounds but it doesn’t time fails they lie what time does is cut deeper over old wounds bleeding, broken never fixed some things can not be healed restoration does not exist...
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everybody leaves and I expect as much from you
Noah left yesterday to join his parents in The Land of Sunshine and Warmth while the rest of us freeze our tails off in this so-called spring weather. (I’m honestly not bitter about it, I’m just...
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4,000 kilometres and 40 hours of driving later, we’re home
It was a cruel joke I played on myself when I plannned to return from our BC road trip 11 hours before my Monday morning began. But, that’s ok. First-world problem, right? It’s not hitting me as hard...
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2013 Garden Plan
Like I mentioned the other day, I’m ordering my seeds for this year’s garden from William Dam Seeds, because that’s where my grandfather ordered from. It is a Canadian company started by Dutch...
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two
Dear Preston, I’m going with the cliche and saying, I can’t believe you’re already TWO! In some ways it feels like you were just born yesterday, but in others, I can’t imagine life before you. You are...
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Grace in Small Things: Sunday Edition #3
1. Hanging out with my girls while they make birthday cards. 2. The ability to text with international friends. 3. Seeing SOIL in my garden. 4. Melting snow. 5. The fact that the future is unwritten....
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the rest of the story about that trip we took to Terrace
So, obviously, the kids and I spent a few hundred hours in the van traveling a few thousand kilometres to BC and back. It was 95% awesome and 5% what you’d expect when you take a solo-parenting road...
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