
“This is a very nice van for you; it has a built in DVD player”. This was the sales pitch we received when we were van shopping a few years back. Lisa was pregnant with the twins and with Annika running around beside us it was obvious to the sales person that this was going to be …
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This was the kind of day I envisioned when we moved back to the coast and pledged that we would live a more active life. We now live 2 minutes from the ocean and 30 minutes or so from the mountains and yesterday I took full advantage of this. My only regret is that I did not …
Continue reading Sea to Sky to Sea on the Geocache Diet – Day 226
Where did we go? It has been over a week since we wrote on FamilyNavigation.com. Did we stop writing? Did we finally crack? Did we move to Namibia? Surprisingly none of those are correct. In fact we just took a little break and we may even take another one before the summer is done. We did …
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Lisa and I celebrated our lucky 13th wedding anniversary yesterday. It is amazing to think that we have been married for 13 years, together for 18, and our three kids are all 5 years old or younger…but that is another story. With help from friends and family we had a lot of options offered to us …
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We have been popular hosts this summer. Now that we live on Vancouver Island, a simply splendid place to vacation, we have been getting quite a few visitors. We are not complaining at all as we are pleased to see friends and family come for visits and I hope it continues. It does play havoc with …
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When Annika was two years old we learned that we would have better luck reasoning with a politician then her at that age. Around the time she turned three she seemed to instantly gain some sort of conscience and we could usually come up with some sort of rational compromise. That day cannot come soon enough with the twins.
I …
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As many of you know our Annika (aged 5) loves bugs. At her preschool ‘graduation’ after all the princesses, fire fighters, and artists, the teacher announced: “When Annika grows up she wants to be an entomologist”. Most of the parents looked at each other and laughed and the kids all looked confused. Like most parents I hardly even …
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One of the main concerns I had before I started the Geocache Diet was that it would take too much of my time away from my main responsibilities: family and work. I proceeded with this challenge because I wanted to prove I could fit daily exercise into my busy schedule and still be as productive. While my …
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