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 Wow it’s almost been a week since our last post. We better get our butts in gear and post, post, post! On that note this one will be just a quick entry as time is going by fast and I need to start thinking of next week’s activity already. Last week we didn’t actually do … Continue reading Fall Outdoor Activities Challenge – Week 6  Here are some tidbits of wisdom and recent happenings from the FamilyNavigation crew. We have our first bone break. And the winner is…Jada!!!! Lisa is so proud of her little girl following in her fragile mothers footprints. She was my choice in the pool. Just a little green-stick fracture and she is fine but will … Continue reading Random Notes and Thoughts from FamilyNavigation  This week, with Halloween just around the corner, we predictably went to our local pumpkin patch for our weekly fall outdoor activity. This was a repeat of our less then successful trip to the patch last year when the twins were only 1.5yrs old. Last year’s story sounds like a hit country song: ’Tears in the Pumpkin Patch’. What a difference a year makes as … Continue reading Fall Outdoor Activities Challenge – Week 5  For this week’s activity we didn’t feel like going too far from home so we picked a very nice park close by where we thought we needed to spend more time in. Martin walked off ahead and the kids and I hopped into the car to meet him at the Lazo Marsh trail-head. I have been wanting to … Continue reading Fall Outdoor Activities Challenge – Week 4 I came across an article by Richard Black, environment correspondent for the BBC, called Solving Nature Loss: Child’s Play? This article introduced me to the UN Convention of Biological Diversity meetings currently taking place in Nagoya, Japan. I was intrigued by the delegates references to making real changes for the sake of future generations. This is of … Continue reading Biodiversity: Will There be Positive Change This Time?  I may be a little late with writing about our Fall activity challenge but we are on schedule with our outings. This past week we played squirrel as we went to the park to collect acorns. We are far more frivolous with our nuts then the practical squirrel however as instead of food our acorns … Continue reading Fall Outdoor Activities Challenge – Week 3  I don’t think the best of Hollywood could capture the range of emotions we experienced. There was shock, confusion, pain, delight, more pain, excitement and then outright euphoria. What triggered such a dramatic response? This scene was the result of a 5 year old losing her first baby tooth. I was about to read the … Continue reading Euphoria, Despair, and Fairies  This past weekend we had another fall outing as a family, this time to the local fish hatchery. In British Columbia there are numerous hatcheries and most are open year-round. Fisheries and Oceans Canadahave a good page listing all hatcheries. Right now is the time of year to see spawning salmon. The season runs from … Continue reading Fall Outdoor Activities Challenge – Week 2  This week marked the start of Autumn and the FamilyNavigation.com team have started a new challenge. We don’t have enough going on in our lives I guess. The Fall Outdoor Activities Challenge is designed as incentive to get outside as a family even as the weather gets cooler and discover your community in the Fall. There really is a lot to see and … Continue reading Fall Outdoor Activities Challenge – Week 1 This may seem like a silly question to ponder but I do have a point (at least I think I do). Do I follow the crowd or do I dance to the beat of my own drum? I know in the past when confronted with pressure to do something wild and crazy I have usually … Continue reading Am I the Ultimate Conformist or a True Rebel?  Autumn gets a bad wrap since it has to follow summer, but when you think about it there is lots to like. Kids seem to really like Fall with the trees changing colours, Halloween, and lots of yummy things to eat. Come on, you must like it a little bit? There is lots to do but sometimes it … Continue reading Fall Outdoor Activities Challenge  “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 … Continue reading Should We Let Our Kids Watch Movies in the Car?  |
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