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Five Fun Family Flicks to Watch with Tweens

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“How about Shrek?” I asked my eleven-year-old son. I held up the DVD case splashed with the picture of the lovable green ogre. “Mom,” he replied. “NO.” “What’s wrong with Shrek?” I queried. We were going through our DVDs, trying to pick G- or PG-rated movies that his class could watch on the bus during [Read More]

How to Treat Your Chaperone

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Those of you who follow my social media channels may recall that I spent 2 days chaperoning my son’s 6th grade field trip to Toronto. My duties entailed riding a humongous motor coach for approximately 12 hours and escorting my group of four kids through one fort, one legislative assembly, one museum, one gigantic tower, [Read More]

From Sweetheart to Sweet, Lord, What IS All This Stuff?

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After three years raising our firstborn, an extremely active son, our family was blessed with a little girl. She slept like an angel. She was as sweet as an angel. She was so dear to us. Oh, sure, my sweet baby girl soon grew into a not-so-sweet toddler and preschooler, but really, I had no [Read More]

The Best Beachy Waves Tutorial

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Do you ever go to the salon and get your hair done? Looks great when the stylist does it, right? Then it’s the next day. Suddenly, what the stylist made look *so easy* is impossible to replicate. But, you try. I present below my stylist’s rendition of beachy waves, immediately followed by my rendition of beachy waves: How’s [Read More]

Lose the Cape, Save Your Sanity

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As I took my car into the shop last week for yet another repair, I realized I still had to print out the Brownie permission slip for camping and turn it in with a check later than night. Plus, did I sign my daughter’s homework? I needed to make sure I washed my son’s lacrosse [Read More]

Rejected Reproductive Health Unit Titles

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The email from my son’s middle school caught my eye. I opened it and read: “You are invited to come preview the lessons and teaching materials for Puberty: The Wonder Years.” Puberty: The Wonder Years? What, is Kevin Arnold narrating the videos about the miraculous changes that happen to your body when Winnie Cooper walks [Read More]

How To Heal Dry Skin Fast (and a giveaway!)

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This weekend I wore sandals for the first time this spring. My feet were like newborn babies, crying from happiness at being released from the sock womb they’d been kept in all winter! My feet looked about as wrinkly as newborns, too. However, my skin was NOT exactly baby soft. Heck no! My tootsies had plenty [Read More]

I Mustache You Some Questions

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Normally, if someone told me I had a mustache, I would be offended. However, when the hilarious Kelly L. McKenzie tagged me to play “I Mustache You Some Questions”, I felt honored, not furry-lipped. Kelly asked me 12 questions that I must answer honestly. You’ll see I’ve taken some liberty with the number of answers I give. Whatevs. Then I tag [Read More]

The Surprising Truth about Canada, Part II

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It’s tax time in America. Which means it must be tax time in Canada, too. Right? Maybe not. After all, Canadians don’t even have pennies anymore. (What did they do with the poor pennies?!) And have you ever heard of a Loonie? A Toonie? GST? Fear not! For just as I shared with you the exact [Read More]

14 Things I Remember about Being 14

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In March, I waxed nostalgic about the 30th anniversary of a favorite movie of mine, The Breakfast Club. What I didn’t make explicit then, but will now, is that I was 14 years old when that movie came out. To be honest, I pretty much hated being 14. But something dawned on me as I [Read More]

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