Week 158 motherhood – kids’ first wedding attendance, infant massage class, tree planting, fire station open house

 kids in red dresses

The kids’ first wedding attendance

Week 158 motherhood with 3-year-old and 9-month-old:  Continue reading

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Week 157 motherhood – 3 years old!, 9 months old, first time hosting a birthday party, trip to the fire station, waving

 Dinosaur loot bags

Dinosaur loot bags for the kids (you can also peep the cookie bags in the box for the adults, the “happy birthday” cake banner on the bottom as well as one of the clues, “fern”,  for the scavenger hunt which was ripped off by one of the kids)

Week 157 motherhood journey with 3-year-old and 9-month-old:  Continue reading

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Week 156 motherhood – exclamations, scooting forward, new bed

 toddler's drawing on a chalkboard

Toddler’s drawings at 2.11 months old

Week 156 motherhood of 2 year 11.5 month old and 8.5 month old:  Continue reading

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Too Good To Go Hauls – June 2023

Too Good To Go hauls

Too Good To Go hauls in June 2023

Here are my Too Good To Go hauls (31 surprise bags) from stores and restaurants in the Markham, Richmond Hill, Scarborough, and Toronto surrounding areas in June 2023.

(Where there is a clear price tag of the goods, surprise bags that meet or are above the minimum value are marked with a green checkmark and surprise bags that do not meet the minimum value are marked with a red X.  E.g. If a surprise bag costs $7.99, the minimum value of goods received should be $24 worth.Continue reading

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Week 155 motherhood – making ice cream, utensils song, gymnurstics

Homemade vanilla ice cream

Homemade ice cream at EarlyON Creative Chefs

Week 155 motherhood of 2 year 11.5 months and 8.5 month old:  Continue reading

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Week 154 motherhood – CNE, bouncy castle, Creative Chef classes, incident, upgraded solids and ride, clapping hands

 children playing with cars

Toddler playing alongside another child

Week 154 motherhood of 2 year 11 month old and 8 month old:

(Warning:  LONG post ahead.)

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CNE Food 2023 – everything we ate and saw

Vietnamese banana ice cream

The hidden gem we discovered at CNE 2023! Keep reading to find out what it is 😛

It feels just like yesterday that we attended the Canadian National Exhibition last year.  Already, a full year has passed and it’s time for CNE 2023!  This year, we looked at what crazy carnival eats there were ahead of time and tried to roughly plan our route because we were attending with a 2.11 year old and an 8-month-old.  (Last summer was easier when the baby was in my womb still, haha.)  Continue reading

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Week 153 motherhood – elevator buttons, St. Catharines EarlyON, 8 months old, turning around

 two in a wagon (2 kids under 3 years old)

Kids’ first time in a wagon! (At the St. Catharines EarlyON Centre)

Week 153 motherhood of 2 year 11 month old and 8 month old:  Continue reading

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Too Good To Go Hauls – May 2023

My Too Good To Go hauls in May 2023

The hauls I got from Too Good To Go in May 2023

Download and use the free Too Good To Go app to help restaurants, grocery stores, and convenience stores save food from going to the waste for a one third of the original price.  Here are my Too Good to Go hauls in May 2023 (29 surprise bags) from the Greater Toronto Area.  Continue reading

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Week 152 motherhood – scissors, first time in the pool, St. Catharines trip

 Baby in the pool

First time in the swimming pool for both kiddos!

Week 152 motherhood of 2 year 10 month old and 7.5 month old: Continue reading

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