It’s no secrete that most peoples favourite season is Summer. The warm weather, longer days, and all the fun things you can do outside. So no wonder everyone hates winter. Freezing cold weather… stupid amount of snow ( Or is that just me because I live in the Canadian Snow Belt?) Short days and months of being cooped up in your house like a hermit waiting for those warm sunny days! I know for me I really don’t mind the winter up till January 1st … and then I am DONE! I Hate the cold weather, the dry skin, the cleaning the snow off your car just to have the…
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Self Care
The Importance of Personal Self Care for Mothers As Wives and Mothers, we are constantly caring for others and that is what we do! We nurture. It’s in our nature to do so, and as mothers and wives, we tend to put ourselves last. ( or is that just me? ) Self Care is important no matter what… mother, wife or neither! The old saying goes “Love your self first, and everything else will fall in line” – Lucille Ball Or how about this one?? “Solitude is where I put my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace” –Nikki Rowe The Point is… Self-care in any form is important. You can’t…
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Family Zoo Trip
How To Get The Most Out Of Your Toronto Zoo Trip! So you’re planning a trip to the Zoo? You might be panicking? How are you going to map this out? How are you going to keep the kids from melting down? Where will you start? What do you need? Well, I’ve got you covered! For the most part… We recently went to the Toronto Zoo on a family day trip and it was awesome! We all had a blast – especially Noah, he loved seeing all the animals for the first time. His favourites were the giraffe, crocodile, and monkeys. Here are a few pointers for your day trip to…
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Postpartum Recovery
The Truth About Postpartum Recovery How to survive your postpartum recovery. There’s a lot of general knowledge about postpartum recovery BUT there’s also A LOT that “They” don’t tell you. I had a basic idea of what postpartum was going to be like. There would be a constant “period” for weeks and going to the bathroom would probably hurt you know the common knowledge. But oh boy was I in for a shock! There’s so much other stuff that they don’t tell you! So let ME tell you the postpartum recovery truth! 1. The Bathroom. The bathroom will become a scary place where you won’t want to go. You’ll…
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Camping With a Toddler
How To Camp with a Toddler We are very outdoorsy people and love to camp, hike, canoe and kayak. We want our son to experience all of the wonderful things nature has to offer so we started to introduce him to camping at very young age…he was a month old when we first took him camping. You can read all about how that went here. Since we survived camping with a newborn we thought camping with a toddler was going to be a breeze…. we were mistaken… camping with a toddler was a lot more work than we expected. So here are our tips for camping with a toddler. 1.…
