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Halloween Traditions

Anyone who has been reading TMH for long knows I have a thing for traditions.  I think they create the best memories and give our children roots.  Last year I wrote a post on Halloween Traditions I wanted to start with my family in hopes of making the celebration about more than a night of [...]

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Autumn Colours

I am sitting by my kitchen window, feet up on the window sill, comfy Union flag (Jack) cushion beneath my ever increasingly padded behind. The warmth and golden glow of early evening light is casting longer and longer shadows across our back garden and I am watching (as well as typing this on my wonderful [...]

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The Beauty Of Boredom

How often do you let your kids be bored?  If you would have asked me that question a few months ago I would have said “all the time”.  When really the answer was – they are bored all the time, and I then find them something to do. Then one day I had the chance [...]

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How To Easily Print Patterns, Tutorials, Recipes And More

Hey friends, happy Thursday.  We’ve almost made it to the weekend!  I have some things I’ve been working on behind the scenes that are giving me butterflies and keeping me up at night.  Good stuff, FUN stuff…can’t wait to show and tell you kind of stuff.  Even as I type I am getting excited just [...]

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Getting Back To “Normal”

Hey, I’m back!  I thought I would introduce you to my sweet babe.  She’s 3½ weeks old already..sniff.   Why is there not a pause button?  I swear we have a fast forward, it would be nice if we at least had a slow-mo option.  We haven’t been out much, trying to keep her from [...]

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Hurry Up – Slow Down

Print is from Dazey Chic, $20.00 for an 8×10.  I quite like this one too! Do you ever get the feeling that there is something out there trying to get you to slow down? One Saturday evening, mid cooking dinner for my husband (boys asleep), dancing to The Black Eyed Peas, our power went out. [...]

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Progressive Dinner Date Night

{Destri & Aubrey} Awhile back my family and I stopped in to stay at Aubrey’s house, and we went on the funnest double date ever.  We decided to do a progressive dinner; start out at one restaurant for appetizers, one for main course, and one for the dessert.  We had to actually make two stops [...]

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Ramblings Of Summer’s Gone…

It is a beautiful sunny warm, almost hot, afternoon here in my back garden. The Alberta sun is beating down, I can hear my two boys playing with our next door neighbour’s children and somewhere off to the west I can hear a summer storm rolling in. Mmmmm, summer. A word that when used here [...]

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Honest To Nod Blog ~ The Land Of Nod

I still remember when my sister first introduced me to The Land Of Nod.  I was expecting my first and she called to tell me I just had to check out the cutest store she had found; how funny their product descriptions were, and what cute stuff they had.   I have been a fan [...]

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