Shop Limeapple through the month of January and get 25% off. We just shopped and got swimsuits for an upcoming vacation, and snagged 25% off of the regular price using the exclusive coupon code ACTIVEYEAR. The brand new swimwear line has our girls excited. When you’re four and seven (let’s face it, even when you’re an
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Which is Better? The 4Moms RockaRoo vs the MamaRoo
Baby gear decisions are some of the hardest that we make as new parents - and with every child, it seems like there are new options available. When you’re browsing through the aisles and aisles of baby gear available, it can be confusing - I mean, the baby loungers, chairs and swings all seem to
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Having a Baby? You Need a DockATot
With every pregnancy, every infant, there are new products I discover, that I wish I had known about the last time around. With Violet, our second child, it was bamboo swaddle blankets. With Stella, our third child, it’s the DockATot. Just like the name, it docks your tot. It’s a lounger, it’s a co-sleeper, it’s a
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Lash Extensions: I Can’t Believe I Waited This Long
There are three beauty products that I use on a regular basis - mascara, BB cream and tinted lip products. Easy enough for everyday, like dropping the kids off to school in the morning or heading out for appointments, those are the same three types of products I start with when it comes to date
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Crayola Color Wonder – Perfect for Winter Road Trips
Coming into the fall and winter months, we’ve got a list of places to explore, like visiting real-life reindeer, experiencing a holiday parade in the mountains and making cookies in a castle, or a hotel that looks like a castle. Each of these weekend trips is three to four hours away and despite the fact
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Versatile Holiday Decor: The Heidi Swapp Lightbox
When it comes to holiday decor, we’ve really scaled down. There’s something about the sense of relief that comes after the holidays when you put it all away that made me realize we need to choose the items we decorate with wisely, rather than have an excessive amount of clutter, everywhere we look, for three months
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New Parents (Again): 5 Things We Forgot to Buy The Third Time Around
It’s cold and flu season. With two other kids coming in and out of the house from school, yoga, art class, playdates and indoor playgrounds - you can bet that there are going to be germs brought in the house. No matter how many requests I put in with the kids to ‘stop touching their
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The Cure for the Thanksgiving Pie Hangover
Every year at Thanksgiving there is pie—lots and lots of pie in multiple flavors. Pies that have been sourced from some of the best hidden-gem bakeries in the Edmonton area, ordered ahead of time or baked by family members skilled in making delicious desserts. Every year at Thanksgiving, we end up sampling too many
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Shop Limeapple for Back to School (and get 50% off!)
There are some fantastic deals at Limeapple, for the next two days. Just in time for back to school shopping, you can find incredible deals on everything from dresses to swimwear, snagging half off of the regular price - and making the back to school budget just a little easier to swallow. Olivia’s in this
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Cool Summer Toys: Wethead Water Roulette
There’s a brand new way to cool off this summer - and that’s Wethead. On the list for Olivia’s birthday gift ideas, she’s been talking about the game since she first noticed it on Youtube a few months ago. With her seventh birthday here, it was the perfect time to try it out! She screamed
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Carseat Shopping? Here’s Why We Chose the Maxi Cosi Mico AP 2.0
Carseat shopping this time around, I was biased – we had use the Maxi Cosi Mico for both of the girls, and hadn’t held on to it because we don’t have a lot of storage space and holding on to a carseat for 3+ years seemed silly. Going into the process of buying a carseat,
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Get the Zoku Fish Pop Molds for Fifteen Bucks (Half Off)
Browsing through Michaels today, shopping for candy melts to make unicorn bark that Olivia had on her summer bucket list, I happened upon the Zoku pops - something I’ve not before seen in our local Michaels store. Score! I’ve had these fish pops on my list of things to buy for ages - but I
