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The Halloween Candy Update

November 15, 2012

So, you might be wondering how our Halloween candy experiment turned out in the end. It was all looking pretty good on day one – there were lots of candies consumed and pretty much zero deviation from normal behaviour. Was it too good to be true? Yes and no. The candy experiment turned out differently [...]

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Gluten Free Pancakes

June 4, 2012

When Claire and I went gluten-free, the hardest meal for me to figure out was breakfast.  In the mornings I’m still not quite fully awake, not really up for some elaborate cookery, and whatever we eat needs to be quick and filling.  On top of all that, Claire doesn’t really like eggs all that much, [...]

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Playful Self-Discipline and Living Gluten-Free

April 30, 2012

I’ve been gluten-free for about a month now.  After the initial difficulty, we settled into a new food routine pretty quickly, and for Claire and I the results have been really positive.  Claire’s a happier kid, more outgoing and less likely to spend a whole playdate clinging to my lap.  She doesn’t have a bad [...]

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Going Gluten Free

April 3, 2012

What a surprising couple of weeks it has been. After realizing that Claire was sensitive to something in her diet, I gradually started eliminating foods, first dairy, then gluten, until I felt confident I could pinpoint what was bothering her. The offender? Gluten. More late nights in front of the laptop led me to discover [...]

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Sensitivity

March 22, 2012

There are always things going on outside of the frame of the photo. Sometimes this is good. The entire internet does not always need to know about my every insecurity, random obsession, fear, doubt or sniffle. But right now I’m pretty much fully absorbed in the task of figuring out what is going on with [...]

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Happy Weekend!

March 10, 2012

Here’s a photo from last weekend’s snowshoeing trip… Hope you’re all enjoying a relaxing, inspiring weekend!

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Eating Meat in a Vegetarian Household

October 16, 2011

When I met my husband eleven years ago, I was a university student living on boxes of mac and cheese (eaten straight from the pot), bagels, cheap sandwich meat, yoghurt and apples. I’d been raised in a straightforward meat & potatoes kind of family, which never really ventured at all into ethnic foods. And then [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Purple Green Smoothie

August 24, 2011
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The Period of PURPLE Crying

August 9, 2011

All babies cry, and that’s the truth.  However, some babies cry more than others.  And most babies experience a peak of crying between 2 weeks and 3-4 months of age.  Whether you call it colic or not, unexplained, prolonged and painful-looking crying bouts are difficult for any parent or caregiver to go through. The Period [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: The View From Here

July 13, 2011

     

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Playful Self-Discipline: Living Right Now

April 21, 2011

It’s Thursday and time to check in on my Playful Self-Discipline project! This month I’m writing about Uncertainty, and so far I’ve tackled how much I can control in my life and how happiness affects my reactions to the unexpected monkey wrench in my plans. Today I’m thinking about how uncertainty loops back and joins [...]

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Playful Self-Discipline: Happiness and The Unexpected Hassle

April 14, 2011

It’s Thursday and time to check in on my Playful Self-Discipline project!  This month’s theme is Uncertainty, and last week I wrote about how much I can control the uncertainty in my life.  Today I’m writing about how positivity and happiness can help me cope with unexpected hassles. As you may have guessed from last [...]

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Kid Safe Toilet Cleaner?

March 29, 2011

I’ve been slowly replacing our cleaning products with more environmentally friendly ones, choosing non-toxic commercially produced cleaners and homemade things like vinegar and water or a baking soda paste.  In the process I’ve discovered that it’s possible to clean just about everything in my house with either Dr. Bronner’s Castille Soap, vinegar and water or [...]

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