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Life in Ottawa

A Magical Giveaway!

11 March 2010

It’s not too often that I get dance-around-the-house excited by blog pitches, but this one did it for me!
This week, I got an e-mail from the National Arts Centre (NAC) offering me two tickets to a special bloggers-night-out at a performance of Mysterioso: Music and Magic, a part of the CTV Pops series. Here’s [...]

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Looking for an Ottawa family to make pancakes on CBC. (No, really!)

2 March 2010

Got this note just now from a contact at CBC:

CBC Ottawa is doing a food series and is looking to film a mom making pancakes/waffles for their young children sometime in the morning this week (the earlier the better). We’re hoping to also have one of the children read the ingredients off the pancake box. [...]

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An experienced mom’s guide to kid birthday parties in Ottawa

24 February 2010

We’re thick in the midst of birthday party season at our place: all three boys have birthdays in a five week span. Over the years we’ve mostly contracted out the birthday party, largely because the idea of avoiding 10 caked-up boys drunk on adrenaline on the loose in my house is worth just [...]

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A new perspective on the Canadian War Museum

15 February 2010

We were watching the Olympic mogul races (Go Canada Go!) the other day when one of the boys started talking about how Germany was evil. I don’t know whether it was something they’d been watching on TV or something from school, but it led to a long talk about heritage and ancestry (Papa Lou [...]

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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 free family things to do in Ottawa on a cold winter day

18 January 2010

It’s January in Ottawa, and if you don’t get the kids out of the house soon, it’s going to get ugly. Here’s a quick list of five free (I love free!) things you can do to enjoy winter in Ottawa without breaking the bank.
1. Feed the birds. This is a perennial favourite [...]

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The City responds to your question about composting

8 January 2010

I could have put this in the original post about Green Bins and composting, but it’s a couple of days old now and I wanted to make sure you guys saw it.
One of our regular commenters, Windex, asked the following question:
You know I was talking about the bin to the hubby last night as he [...]

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I can’t believe how excited I am about our new Green Bin!

5 January 2010

Way back in the day, we used to live in a not-so-nice neighbourhood in Hunt Club and I loved to wander the streets in the much nicer neighbourhood adjacent to ours. They were one of the Ottawa neighbourhoods selected to participate in the first “green bin” composting pilot project, and I couldn’t wait for [...]

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Save 25 per cent at Lulu.com

11 December 2009

This is convenient! Remember the other day when I told you about the Ottawa photo calendar I made up for sale at Lulu.com? I just got an e-mail saying you can save 25% on everything at Lulu.com through the end of December by entering code “HOHOHO” when you check out. So, if [...]

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Shameless, I am!

10 December 2009

A couple of quick items: first, aren’t you pleased that I haven’t been haranguing you every single day to vote for me in the Canadian Blog Awards? It’s a nice change over previous years, no? But, ahem, have you voted for me under the Best Family Blog category in the Canadian Blog [...]

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