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Life in Ottawa

Seven days of free family fun in Ottawa!

18 November 2011 My 15 minutes

This week, CBC Ottawa has been doing a series on savvy spenders, featuring ways to save on your groceries and on your clothing budget. And today, they’ll be airing a segment on free activities for families in Ottawa — featuring me and the whole family! It’s been about three years since I wrote what was [...]

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Hooray for Holiday Parades: The 2011 Annual Eastern Ontario Santa and Christmas Parade Post

1 November 2011 Ottawa Family Fun

Ho! Ho! Holy Christmas, can you believe it’s that time of year again already?! Time for the 6th annual Christmas/Santa/Holiday Parade round-up! Wheeee! (I’ve pinned this post to the front page for the Christmas season.)

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The Great Pumpkin Adventure of 2011

23 October 2011 Ottawa Family Fun

Had a great afternoon out picking pumpkins at Miller’s Farm again this year! Want more details? See last year’s post.

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Best idea for Halloween neighbourhood fun ever!

19 October 2011 Fun for kiddies

I simply had to interrupt my series of post-Blissdom Canada posts to share this awesome Halloween fun idea with you! Last night, I was loading the dishwasher and checking homework and doing laundry and preparing lunches and all the other fun things we do between dinnertime and bedtime when I heard a very faint knock [...]

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One year in Manotick

12 October 2011 Postcards from Manotick

Can you believe it’s been a year this week since we moved out to Manotick? Seems like yesterday. Seems like we’ve been here forever. It has been the most tumultuous, crazy, busy year – no wonder it flew by in a flash! I still remember the very powerful feeling I had the very first day [...]

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Five ideas for Thanksgiving Family Fun in and around Ottawa

7 October 2011 5 things

Wow, did you see the forecast for this weekend? I don’t know if I’ve ever eaten Thanksgiving dinner in shorts before – yowza, it’s going to be a spectacular weekend! Here’s five quick ideas of ways you can get out of the house and celebrate Thanksgiving in Ottawa: 1. Admire the fall foliage at Gatineau [...]

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Terrific giveaway for Ottawa families: GCTC tickets and the Playtime Program

19 September 2011 Life in Ottawa

You’ve heard of the Great Canadian Theatre Company, right? They’ve been putting on great theatre in Ottawa for more than 35 years. The current performance, running now through October 2, is a musical called Amelia: The Girl Who Wants to Fly. From the description on the GCTC site: Be transported to the Golden Age of [...]

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Friday Family Fun: Three reasons to visit rural Ottawa this weekend!

16 September 2011 Ottawa Family Fun

As you know, I’ve embraced the semi-rural life on Ottawa’s outskirts. It seems this time of year is rich with festivals, fairs and farmer’s markets. Here’s three suggestions for fun family activities outside of the city’s urban core this weekend! 1. Manotick’s Picnic in the Park and Soap Box Derby Come out to Centennial Park [...]

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Friday Family Fun: Apple Picking!!

9 September 2011 Ottawa Family Fun

Apple-picking is one of my favourite summer-into-fall family traditions. On a crisp autumn day, there is nothing better than blue skies, green grass and fresh red apples. And there is no better snack than a tartly sweet juicy apple – I’m drooling just thinking about it! The apple-picking season is just getting underway here in [...]

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Friday Family Fun: The summer fun we didn’t have

2 September 2011 Ottawa Family Fun

You know how you set out at the beginning of summer with a kind of a checklist in your mind called “fun things we must achieve as a family in order to consider this summer a success”? What, it’s only me that sees summer fun as a project to be achieved? Anyway, this summer took [...]

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