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WEEK 4 Update and Wrap Up: Bringing the Grocery Budget Back to Reality: A Four Week Challenge

May 30, 2019 0 Comments

The final week of a four-week-long grocery budget challenge. The update and wrap up.

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WEEK 3 Update: Bringing the Grocery Budget Back to Reality: A Four Week Challenge

May 23, 2019 1 Comments

Two weeks ago, I posted this grocery budget challenge for the month of May. You can read Week 1 here and Week 2 here. If you would rather skip the…

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When the long-awaited prognosis is “there’s no hope for recovery.” What then?

May 6, 2019 1 Comments

To set the scene, you’re at the doctor with a complaint. They diagnose the problem and your first reaction is relief (that you’re not crazy and it’s an actual ‘thing’)…

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This is the price that I gladly pay for raising literate children.

Apr 8, 2019 0 Comments

We all know that reading to children increasing their vocabulary, encourages speech and language development and promotes healthy brain development. But did you know that it also creates unbreakable bonds…

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Even when I think I’m an adult, I’m not really an adult. Can my kids fire me?

Jan 22, 2019 0 Comments

Some days, I am sure that I have it all together (like, really, really sure, positive even). On those days, I am adulting at gold medal levels. I’m feeding children,…

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As it turns out that like my mother before me, elephants make me cry.

Jan 16, 2019 2 Comments

Long ago: When I was young, on Sunday nights at 6 p.m. on CBC (channel 5, cable 6 in Toronto), The Wonderful World of Disney would sometimes play a full-length…

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My crazy did not beat out my sanity this morning. Everyone won.

Nov 29, 2018 0 Comments

“Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat…”? This song. I’ve known it since childhood. I have wonderful memories of singing it in the back of the car with my…

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Contrary to all appearances

Nov 22, 2018 0 Comments

So this was today, but you could pretty much replace “today” with “any day” and it would still be accurate. ****************************** Thursday morning: Characters in this scene: Me, alone at…

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Money Woes Lead to Money, Whoa! – The Results

Nov 13, 2018 0 Comments

A week has passed. Here’s a breakdown of how the ‘no-spend, no-shop’ week went: Monday Spent entire $30 budget (plus $0.76 on yogurt, raspberries, milk, eggs, shortening and sugar). Hmmmm.…

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2018 Santa Claus Parades in the G.T.A. Annual List

Nov 1, 2018 0 Comments

Now that Halloween is out of the way, it is time for us to move on. The stores have been prepping us for months now (Black Friday in August –…