A few years ago Lexi and a group of friends had a mini market day. Each child had to make something to sell. At just five years old, she decided that she wanted to make homemade lip balm. It was a huge hit with the other kids, and some of the moms asked me for more in the following weeks…
Growing up I remember my mother loving rocky road. It was a treat that family members would bring her from America. Since they usually visited around Christmas time it became “Christmas Rocky Road” in my mind. I didn’t...
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When we were planning our Christmas crafts, this was not one of them. But it popped up into my feed and I am a sucker for a cool science experiment so I had to try it out. These cute little suncatcher Christmas baubles are made from...
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It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. We are baking and decorating and having lots of fun. I saw this Oreo Cookie Baubles on Pinterest and we had to make them. These aren’t cookies you can make and then keep for days like...
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We bake a lot during the festive season. We always have. My mom starts baking a few weeks beforehand to make sure there is enough. It is a tradition I am carrying on with my children. Baking is a big part of our life, it makes sense we...
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I was lucky enough recently to spend the day with KOO cooking with some of their new products. Events like this are the best, we get to experience the products and have some fun. When they made this fudge using black beans I was...
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Do people still send out Christmas cards? Or is that old fashioned? I love receiving good old fashioned snail mail, particularly around the holidays. We still send cards and since becoming a mother I have enjoyed making and sending out...
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We went to the mall this week for the first time in a LONG time! Lexi (age 7) was absolutely flabbergasted that there are Christmas decorations up in the mall. Of course, her next question was, when can we start decorating for...
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With Halloween approaching, we’ve been thinking of all things pumpkin! It’s been hot here and we are wishing we were somewhere cooler, sipping on pumpkin lattes. Instead, we’re here sipping our cold milk and dunking...
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Last week I was popped in to Pick ‘n Pay and noticed they had proper Halloween pumpkins. They looked so awesome I knew we had to carve pumpkins this year. And so we did (post still coming). Obviously there was some excess pumpkin...
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