How to Survive Life in the Suburbs

Retail Therapy

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When life gets you down and the scales have you beat. If you’re tired, and worried, and running around feeling like the world is against you. There is one thing you can do. One magical thing that for at least a few shining hours can lift your spirits and put a smile on your face. It can distract you from… View Post

Top Five Places in the GTA to Take Your Family This Winter

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With winter officially here, parents are looking for family-friendly activities to help their kids beat the winter blues. The LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre team knows how important it is for families to spend quality time together, and they have searched the city for the best activities you and your family can enjoy this winter. Excite your children’s imagination as you discover… View Post

Be Kind. Always.

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  Some days are good.  Some days are great.  Other days?  You may need the assistance of coffee, the motivation of warm pastries or even children to drag your ass out of bed.  It makes you think.  Do you ever really know what’s going on behind closed doors?  That smile you see on someone’s face?  Is it real, is it… View Post

Time To Treat Yourself! ~ $100 Giveaway #PrepaidMyWay

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I have a little tradition here in the suburbs.  Every year when my dear daughters birthdays roll around, not only do I try and find the perfect birthday gifts for them, but I pick up a little something for me!  Yup, you read that right.  I buy a birthday present for myself.  Sure, they may be the one’s having the… View Post

Top 5 Reasons To Rent A Vacation Home Near Disney!

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It’s cold. It’s dark when your kids leave for school in the morning and the sky is black again before dinner.  The wind howls at the windows at night, and the 3 foot piles of snow on either side of your driveway is making it feel as if the winter will never end.  So what’s a girl to do?  Plan… View Post

My Truths

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What do a few confessions, a dash of TMI and a touch of self reflection add up to?  My truths. For whatever reason, today it felt important to pour my heart out and let you all in on what’s going on in my head, and behind my door here in this little corner of the suburbs.  Here are a list… View Post

The One Where I Covet A Diaper Bag?

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Kate Spade, Michael Kors, Gucci and Marc Jacobs.  What’s one thing you didn’t know they all have in common?  They make diaper bags?  WTH? Who wants to put their kids dirty used up stinkified diapers in a bag that costs more than their mortgage payment?  Not me, err not that I’m in the market for a diaper bag at the… View Post

A Portrait Of The Ridiculous

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I know they say a lot can change in a year, but isn’t this a bit ….ridiculous?  This little shot. It was taken in front of my fireplace December 24th 2014. This sweet picture?  It was captured on December 25th, 2015. Ridiculous.