Archive for January, 2012

pancake breakfast

super-awesome whole-wheat-buttermilk pancakes

This is a great weekend morning breakfast that you can have fun making with your kids. These pancakes are fluffy, tasty and super-easy to make.   1/2 cup                   all-purpose enriched white flour 1/2 cup                   whole wheat flour [...]

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Treehouse by Nature Clean

Both of our kids have fairly sensitive skin, so when we look for personal care products we really focus on “Dermatologist Tested” and of course, “natural” products get at least a second look, if not put to the test in our bathrooms. So the Treehouse line by Nature Clean seemed like a good fit based [...]

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Music for SuperKids!

Music is a huge part of our home and between Janey and I we have a pretty eclectic selection of music in our iTunes library. Throw a couple of kids into the mix and it’s safe to say we’ve got the musical bases covered. Music with Marnie is the latest addition to our kids music [...]

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building a new baby budget – TV edition

With our second child on the way, we knew that we were going to have to make some adjustments to balance the bank accounts every month. There are always areas to trim spending (some less painful than others) and as we started to look at our monthly expenses, one line-item jumped off the page pretty [...]

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kid milestone 6.1: piercing the ears

When Emma first asked to get her ears pierced a number of months ago, my initial reaction was in the neighbourhood of “not a (expletive) chance” which in retrospect was probably a bit aggressively negative. I don’t even know why I reacted that way. Maybe it was the thought of how fast my first born [...]

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