I will never forget the look of panic on my new husband’s face as I chatted on the phone with my newly minted mother in law. She had asked what I was cooking for supper. There was no way for her to know that I had “planned” crackers and onion
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Let’s talk about maternity clothes. Both times I have been pregnant were in the winter. Now, I have seen enormously pregnant ladies languishing in the August heat and felt deep sympathy, and I’m not saying I would rather go through that! However, the effort of trying to gingerly cross the
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Who says once you have children, you can’t take in the arts? Festival City, aka Edmonton, has so many great cultural spaces and places for families. Whether you like sampling a rainbow of macaron flavours, a creating art in a major gallery or staying in an arty, design-focused hotel Edmonton
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  Pity the poor Alberta children with no sea to gaze upon—only slimy, algae bloomed lakes to satisfy their ocean wonder! Luckily, there are places like Big Al’s around to show our land-locked little ones the amazing creatures found in the sea. Okay, it’s no substitute for the beach, or
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