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Dads Love Sportchek – Your Father’s Day Shopping List

May 22, 2018

At last, it’s almost Father’s Day. Being a Dad is an incredible responsibility with so many wonderful memories made everyday. My daughter keeps me busy and happy and I’m loving every minute of it. I was doing some thinking about what I’d like as a gift for Father’s Day, as well as what I’m going to buy for my own Dad and I spent most of the thought process mentally walking around Sportchek. Luckily, they’ve asked me to write a ...

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Can Tech Bring Your Family Happiness?

May 4, 2018

Social media provides little bursts of happiness as we get likes on a new post, but it quickly fades, which is why we keep posting. Just one more hit of augmented-happiness until the likes stop coming. Our time spent online can also be accompanied with a sense of missing out or ...

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Spring Gardening – What to Plant and When to Plant it

March 30, 2018

Hooray for the Spring! I can finally take my daughter outside without having to put on six layers. I want to make sure that we have another summer of growing what we eat, even if it’s just a couple of crops. It starts off with the preparation. I used a few ...

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How a Fridge Saved My Marriage

February 26, 2018

Sponsored. Our old fridge came with the apartment. It wasn’t anything special, it just went along, doing it’s job. Until one day when it started to hum. I don’t mean that it was making a little noise, like most electronics do from time to time, I mean a ...

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11 Things You Have to Stop Telling New Parents

February 2, 2018

“Just wait until the Terrible-Twos!” There are two possible scenarios where this is mentioned. Either our new pride and joy is being perfectly behaved and you’re keen to be the incredibly annoying reality check, or the baby is inconsolably wailing and you just couldn’t ...

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Being A Dad is Hard

January 26, 2018

Being a Dad is hard. Some of the time it’s really tiring, and I don’t mean that sometimes I really fancy a nap, I mean that I could be laying on the cold floor in the depths of being truly shattered until I’m summoned by cries, and I honestly have to consider how to dig ...

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Building Your Kid’s Best Day with ParticipACTION

January 19, 2018

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of ParticipACTION . All opinions are 100% mine. I’m going to keep this post nice and short. Mainly so that you’ve got less reason to stay sitting and more to get up. This year, I’m making a conscious effort to move more, eat a ...