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Gluten Free Diet

Everywhere I go, I seem to be seeing “gluten free” this and “gluten free” that. I understood when people cannot digest it but I was wondering about it for myself. What was it exactly, it is good? Is it bad?

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Christmas 2011

Wow it is that time of the year again.  What a wonderful year we have had, full of adventures and stories.

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Halloween – use your creativity

A few weeks earlier, I went into St Vincent de Paul, a second hand store and noticed that they had quite a bit of halloween costumes.  I figured that it was a good time to bring the kids in to find a costume.  When I took them to the store, Natalie and Andrew found something [...]

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Space Saver Furniture

Just watched this video about space saving furniture. It is so cool. Great engineering designs, I think everyone can appreciate it.

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Happy Canada Day

For Canada Day, this year, we decided to spend with it with Kyle’s mum in Clanderboye. We went to see the fireworks along the Red River in Selkirk. It was an awesome performance. The kids had a great time. Unfortunately as it get dark so late here, it didn’t start till about 10:45pm. Half an [...]

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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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Kids Can Do It All

Tonight I was chatting with a friend who lives in Ottawa whom I have not spoken to in a while.  We were updating each other about our kids and stuff.  All our kids all are learning piano and she mentioned that her kids are wanting to learn another instrument.  Then I told her Matthew said [...]

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FREE swimming in Winnipeg Pools

Every Friday morning, we take the kids swimming for phy-ed and I teach them how to swim.  Every week I watch as they progress…  We have been doing this for over a year and we go early Friday morning because it is FREE.  Yes the city of Winnipeg has certain pools in the city that [...]

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Life is Filled with Opportunities – Eric Allen

“Life is filled with opportunities. You are never punished for missing one. The Universe is abundant. For every door that closes another one opens. As you cleanse your mind, body and spirit the connection becomes more powerful and you will instinctively start moving in the right directions. You always hear about someone who was in [...]

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Halloween

We came back from our road trip just in time for Halloween 2009.  I think that is Natalie’s favourite celebration.  They were excited to be able to go trick ‘a treating only thing was that we didn’t have any costumes.  We looked at costumes at different stores on our road trip and quickly decided that [...]

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