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Ottawa Humane Society open house this weekend

27 March 2012 Ottawa Family Fun

Looking for a fun idea for family fun this weekend? How about hopping over to the Ottawa Humane Society to celebrate spring during their open house? Here’s some info: Come visit our new shelter and enjoy lots of family-friendly spring activities – including an Easter egg hunt, crafts and having your photos taken with the [...]

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Ottawa Home and Garden Show giveaway!

21 March 2012 Life in Ottawa

It’s not every year one starts thinking about gardening in mid-March (okay, maybe some of you do, but I’m a late bloomer!) but now that we’ve leap-frogged over winter and early spring and landed in what feels more like May, it seems perfect timing to have the Ottawa Home and Garden Show scheduled for March [...]

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Five ideas for five days of March Break family fun in Ottawa

9 March 2012 Ottawa Family Fun

Holy cow, did you see the weather forecast for March Break in Ottawa? Sunny and 10C to 15C! Glad we’re staying in town to enjoy it! If you’re also staying around town and looking for ideas to keep the kids entertained, here’s a handful of ideas for you! 1. RCMP Musical Ride Stables I wrote [...]

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Ottawa’s Hidden Treasures: RCMP Stables

5 March 2012 Ottawa Family Fun

I have been blogging about raising a family in Ottawa for seven years and this? May be the best discovery of them all. I’ve recommended a tour of the RCMP Musical Ride Centre a couple of times as an excellent idea for free family fun in Ottawa, but I’ve never actually gotten around to doing [...]

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Fun and FREE fitness for Ottawa’s new moms: Strollercize!

22 February 2012 Ottawa Family Fun

It’s hard to believe a whole ten years (!) have passed since I showed up for my first Strollercize outing at Boomerang Kids on Bank Street. I can barely remember being that girl, shy and still overwhelmed by being a new mom, looking for any excuse to get out of the house and interacting with [...]

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Downtown Family Day fun in Ottawa

15 February 2012 Mothership Photography

Looking for a great way to spend next Monday, Family Day, in Ottawa? Head downtown and make your way through these three fun events! Start out on ice and join Mayor Jim Watson for a Family Day skating party from 11 am to 2 pm at the city’s new Rink of Dreams in front of [...]

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Long overdue Ottawa family adventure: Our first Sens game!

5 February 2012 Ottawa Family Fun

On Friday night, Simon and Tristan and I made the trip out to Scotiabank Place for our first-ever Ottawa Senators game. Can you believe I’ve never been before? I’d always had the intention to go, in a civic-duty kind of way, the same way you feel like you should haul your sorry self down to [...]

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Celebrate winter at Manotick’s Shiverfest next weekend

19 January 2012 Postcards from Manotick

I read somewhere in the Ottawa media recently that today, January 19, is the official “dead of winter.” Today is the date with the lowest average daily temperature of the entire year, and the average daily temperature creeps upward from here. So now we can officially say that winter is more than half behind us. [...]

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Pining for daylight

14 December 2011 Life in Ottawa

The kids may be counting down the sleeps until Christmas, but I’ve got my eye on the calendar for another reason, too. Only one more week until the solstice, the shortest day of the year, and then the days finally start to get a wee bit longer. Despite the lack of snow, it seems like [...]

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New Ottawa Ikea Sneak Peek!

6 December 2011 Consumer culture

It was a dark and stormy night in Ottawa, but it was dry and bright with brilliant colours inside the new Ikea during the special media sneak peek last night! ZOMG, what an awesome, enormous store!! It’s laid out on two levels – if you walk the maze through both levels, you’ve traversed an impressive [...]

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