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Five warm and frost-free indoor places to visit on Family Day

13 February 2010

The weather forecast for Family Day in Ottawa looks just about perfect for Winterlude’s outdoor activities, which means that the entire population and half the tourists will be skating on the Canal or zooming down the ice slides at Jacques Cartier Park. Had enough of outside? (If you haven’t, here’s five ideas of [...]

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Five ideas for Family Literacy Day

26 January 2010

Did you know that Wednesday January 27 is Family Literacy Day in Canada? From the Web site:
Family Literacy Day takes place every year on January 27. ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation and Honda Canada created the day in 1999 to encourage families to read and learn together. [...] Literacy is more than books. [...]

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Five things that are making me happy this Christmas

23 December 2009

I have to tell you, I love the (relatively) new category I’ve added of “5 things.” On days like this when I’ve got a handful of half-baked ideas that just won’t come together, or when I feel like chatting with you but can’t get organized enough to assemble a coherent post, I can always [...]

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Five ways to interact with Santa

7 December 2009

Back in the day, the only ways you could “interact” with Santa were to stand in line at the mall to sit on his knee, or maybe at your parents’ annual company Christmas party.
Now that we live in an interactive world, though, not only can your kids write a letter to Santa, or listen to [...]

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Five things I love about my Mazda 5

12 November 2009

As you may remember, I made a (ahem) somewhat involuntary switch from driving a Dodge Grand Caravan to a Mazda 5 last July, when I wrecked the van and it burst into flames. (You know, I’m still a little twitchy even five months later?)
I’ve been meaning to write a follow-up post for months. [...]

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Celebrating four decades with 5 things about Sesame Street

10 November 2009

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the debut of Sesame Street. I love Sesame Street madly and deeply, and have since I was a preschooler. I may have mentioned that once or two dozen times before.
You know who else loves Sesame Street? My kids. Of all the children’s programming [...]

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Five ideas for family fun in Ottawa this Thanksgiving weekend

10 October 2009

Looking for some family fun this Thanksgiving long weekend in Ottawa? Here’s five ideas!
1. The Lego exhibit at the Museum of Science and Technology. Free with museum admission, this is a wonderful exhibit in one of Ottawa’s best locations for family entertainment. We checked it out last weekend, and all three [...]

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Five things that are freaking me out about H1N1

1 October 2009

Are y’all feeling a little freaked out by H1N1, the so-called “swine flu”? I’m not usually one to get my knickers in a twist over the panic-du-jour (Y2K, avian flu, computer viruses — why are all the major media panic-attacks linked to either computer or human viruses anyway?) but this one is slowly but [...]

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Five things that are making me cranky

28 September 2009

It’s Monday and I’m feeling peevish. Consider yourself warned. When I’m finally and properly annointed Queen of the Universe, here’s the first five things I’m going to fix.
1. Twitter and Internet Explorer 6.
For the last couple of weeks, Twitter has been on a campaign to kill IE6. In fact, [...]

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Project 365: Half-way there!!

22 July 2009

Wow, can you believe I’ve made it to Day 183 of my Project 365? One photo every day for half a year!
(Oh my sweet lord, you mean I’m only half way done? I have to come up with ANOTHER 182 photos in the next six months? Yikes!)
Seriously, I am quite proud of [...]

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