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Spring Cleaning – Garage Sale

Now that we have been in Winnipeg for almost 3 years, and having all our stuff in boxes in the garage, we have discovered that we do not need most of the stuff there.  So we have decided to sell a lot of it.  Most of which are household items and “stuff”.  So we have [...]

deals, food, friends, go green, kids, school

St Jean Baptiste Day Celebration in Winnipeg

Today is St Jean Baptiste Day and there were some activities for the kids here at Provencher Park in St Boniface.  I took the kids to watch the entertainment which was all in French, good thing I had my translator, Matthew.  Great chance to be exposed to the language.  They had a great time and [...]

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Rode my Bike to Downtown Winnipeg

Today, I rode my bike to downtown Winnipeg along Pembina Hwy even with a forecast for rain.  I just figured that it wouldn’t rain till the afternoon.  I was wrong, it started about 5 minutes before I reached my destination.  That is ok, I had my plastic bag to protect my seat. at least it [...]

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My Secret Dream of Being a Model

As a child growing up, looking at magazines and watching TV, there was always so many beautiful people to look at. I would look at the magazines and I secretly thought that it would be great to be a model. Wondering how I could end up in a magazine, I never really looked into it [...]

Personal Development, exercise, friends, nature, school, talent

The Rosary and Mother Teresa

I received this story about the rosary, I not sure if it is true, I do not doubt it and it is a great story.  I know the the power of prayers of these simple beads and I wanted to share it with you.

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Make-up Class

Natalie missed her gymnastics class at GymKyds a few weeks ago so yesterday we went for a make-up class.  When I told her about the make-up class, she was a little confused.  She asked me if she had to wear makeup to the class!  They take things so literal!

exercise, family, kids, school

Are you enjoying the weather?

Now that the rain has stopped, we are enjoying the great outdoors. Mum and dad love BBQs so tonight we ate our veg(lentil/chickpea) burgers outside on the deck. From the picture you can see that some of us had sweaters as it was a little on the cool side. The kids are so happy that [...]

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Creating a Vision Board

Last Monday, the weather was not very nice and it was pretty gloomy so we decided to go into the basement with our magazines and pictures to create our vision boards.  Actually we created vision books, which is a little more portable for us.

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Winnipeg Girls Try-a-Tri

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Andrew is growing up

Yesterday we went to Bird’s Hill Park for the day.  Our friends were camping out there and we decided to join them for the day.  They have a 4 year old that got along with Natalie and Andrew really well and it was really cute to watch them play together.  While they were talking, I [...]

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