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  • House Fragrance Envy – Yeah, It’s a Thing

    Lori Uncategorized

      Everyone’s got that friend, you know the one. You walk into their house and it smells like carefully selected scented candles and matching hand soaps in each of the bathrooms. There are specially chosen fragrances for each room of the house – that make your specially chosen fragrances of open window and six-hundred pairs

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  • My Top New Mom Gift Picks from buy buy BABY

    Lori Uncategorized

    You know how you browse through the baby store, searching for the gift that’s going to be the perfect combination of useful + gorgeous? buy buy BABY has lots of inspiration for gifts that fit perfectly in between, whether you’re shopping for yourself, or your about-to-pop best friend. I fancy myself a baby gift expert.

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  • It’s Time to Start Thinking About A New Door #ManulifeReady

    Lori Uncategorized

    Bikes for the season, weekends away with the kids, vacations and small things like rubber boots and new sheets - when you’re a parent, there are always things on your imminent ‘to buy’ list. In a few months though, that to-buy list is going to get smaller and smaller, with fewer things added to it

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  • Five Easy Hacks to Jump Start Your Spring Cleaning

    Lori Uncategorized

    Spring comes with opening the windows, stashing away the winter gear and organizing all the things. The fresh, shiny, wonderful scent of spring in the house is one of the best ways to jump start the clean house. Open the Windows Getting the house fresh can be as simple as opening the windows. On the first nice

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    What to Binge Watch Right Now - Round 2

    Lori Uncategorized

    Binge watching is my specialty. I do it on the nights when Jamie takes the kids out for swim and dinner, and I enjoy the quiet while I catch up on work. Over the course of the last month, I’ve had two definite favorites, The Fall and Togetherness, both well worth the watch this month.

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    Summer Dreaming: Warm Up with These Hot Deals

    Lori Uncategorized

    Turning the thermostat up to 71 degrees and switching the fireplace on this afternoon has me dreaming about summer. The warm days, the lack of laundry because the kids live in bathing suits, drinks on patios, weekend camping trips - you know what I’m saying? These thoughts of summer are what’s keeping me going -

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    Shoppers Like Me Broke Redbox Canada - Sorry About That

    Lori Uncategorized

    Every few months, I order toothpaste and soap online because they don’t sell our preferred brand at Costco (the one planned trip a week we shop). Shipping is free, and it saves a trip to the one store that has horrendous customer service, few tills open and is generally just not a pleasant shopping experience).

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    Ford Trends Shaping the Future at The North American International Auto Show #FordNAIAS

    Lori Uncategorized

    When I first received the email about heading to the North American International Auto Show with Ford Canada, I was surprised - until I realized that it made sense. Moms are there when you buy the cars, Moms have insight into the features that are going to work for the family and Moms are the

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  • Easy Night Table Phone Cord Hack for Clutter Free Table Tops

    Lori Uncategorized

    If there’s one thing that I hate, it’s table top clutter. I can’t think when there’s clutter and I generally try to avoid it through the house, but it’s hard when devices are plugged in and charging all over the place - so when we bought new night tables for our bedroom, I decided that

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  • We’ve Suffered Far Too Long with FBS

    Lori Uncategorized

    It’s been five years of having bassinets, pack and plays and toddler cots in our bedroom. It’s been five years of ditching the bed frame because the three feet of mattresses would just be too high for those small people to climb on to our bed without falling and banging their head. We suffer from

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  • Why I Won’t Order Another Couch Online

    Lori Uncategorized

    It’s January - and you know what that means? Costco has their furniture out. The grey sectional has been calling my name every single time that we walk by it on our weekly Costco trip. But, it’s fabric, and I’ve cleaned everything from sharpie and nail polish, to pee and sticky jam hands off of

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  • Retail Therapy in the Form of $3 Mini Owl Mugs

    Lori Uncategorized

    You know those days when you need a bit of retail therapy? Yesterday was one of those days. I needed two hours of browsing aimlessly without kids, coffee in hand. Target was my first choice, but we needed to grab a few things like yogurt + Polysporin, so I decided on Superstore because I hadn’t been

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