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 When we are with friends our kids make us look good. They are so well behaved and downright delightful. This is wonderful as I would hate for them to be unruly when we are with other people but once in a while it would be nice to give them a glimpse of some of the … Continue reading Our Kids Are Too Well Behaved in Public  Once in a while a new geocache gets published within walking distance from our home. If I feel I can get there before anyone else AND I am not needed at home AND I do not have work that cannot wait then I may try and be the first to find. On these rare occasions … Continue reading Our First-To-Find Team on the Geocache Diet – Day 187  Here are some more notes and random thoughts along the Geocache Diet Trail The kids at "Mr. Big" I really enjoy some of the creative names geocachers give to their caches. Some names give you subtle cryptic hints to what you will find like a fake rock or a ceramic chicken while others guide … Continue reading Notes From the Geocache Diet Trail – Day 183  There is a reason why our website is called FamilyNavigation.com and not FamilyGotItAllFiguredOut.com. We are sailing the wild seas of life with three young kids and we do not know which way to go but together we will figure it out. We do not know what is best for our family all the time and … Continue reading Using Competition to Motivate Kids  A whole year is a long time to focus on one project. It can be especially hard when this project is not the main focus of your life. I don’t want to say that getting in shape and losing weight is not a top priority but in our family being a father and making money … Continue reading Dog Days of the Geocache Diet – Day 176  I have had requests to include more of my eating plan for the Geocache Diet, and in particular, recipes. I have hesitated to post recipes in the past because this is not what this site is all about but when I thought about it for a while I decided that a few recipes would be … Continue reading Recipes For the Geocache Diet – Day 172  So what is a typical day on the geocache diet? This is a challenge after all and the best challenges always have crazy itineraries and require remarkable feats of will and desire. My normal day goes something like: Wake up somewhere between 5am and 6am depending on how tired I was the night before Work in … Continue reading A Typical Day on the Geocache Diet  Recently we have been discussing the trend towards coddled kids and helicopter parenting and it is probably no surprise if you have read our blogs that we wish our kids to be independent and to appreciate experience over material goods. I suggested in a previous blog that I felt that one of the reasons this trend … Continue reading Would Money Change Us?  Tuesday was our Father’s Day do-over and it went a lot better the second time around. I got to choose our activity on Father’s Day and it was no surprise to anyone that I chose to take the family geocaching. I had the whole day arranged and it would start after breakfast for a morning walk and geocache hiding … Continue reading Father’s Day Take Two  If I had my way we would get rid of 90% of the excess stuff we have around the house. This is the reason why I am not allowed to do spring cleaning alone in our house. Lisa comes from a long line of pack-rats and she can see value in almost anything. Luckily we are both … Continue reading Cleaning up on the Geocache Diet – Day 156  I looked around the park nervously to see if anyone was watching us. I was happily playing with the kids in the neighbouring park before I realized what game we were actually doing. All three kids had brought their favourite ball and we had started playing catch. Before long I began throwing the balls down the field … Continue reading Is it OK to Play Fetch With Kids?  Tuesdays are my fun days (and Mondays are not manic). The days where the family does stuff together may be more enjoyable but Tuesday is my day to try and have as much fun as possible by myself as the family stays at home. I will drive to a nearby location for a major hike, serious … Continue reading Fun Caches for the Geocache Diet – Day 152  |
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