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 “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?  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 … 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 … Continue reading What Has Happened on the Geocache Diet – Day 221  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 … Continue reading Anniversary Outing on the Geocache Diet – Day 213  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 … Continue reading Summer Visitors and the Geocache Diet - Day 208  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 … Continue reading Tag-Team Irrational Kids  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 … Continue reading Our ‘Bugging’ Entomologist 
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. … Continue reading How to Work and Exercise on the Geocache Diet: Day 202  Annika likes being silly. She thinks that when she is called a ‘silly girl’ that she has just received the highest compliment possible. Annika is also not shy at all. She has no problem going up to people and talking to them. Sometimes she makes us proud, other times she makes us laugh, and once in … Continue reading Tolerating Silliness  When I was driving the moving truck towards Vancouver Island 13 months ago I knew that we had created a huge challenge for our family. Lisa and I had chosen the place we wanted our family to live and we could picture how our future was supposed to be. We wanted to work out of … Continue reading Art Festival Inspiration  Our hope this with year with having a productive garden was to get our kids interested in eating different types of vegetables more often. I wrote about this hope in the Spring in “Will Gardening Get Kids to Eat Their Vegetables?”. We thought that our kids would be excited about eating vegetables that they planted and cared for. So far the results … Continue reading Eating RIGHT Out of the Garden  I don’t think I realized how much of a battle this weight loss challenge would be. I can lose weight. I do know how to. Dropping 20lbs in a short period of time is no problem but reaching my long term weight goal and eating well enough to keep off the weight is proving to be tough. … Continue reading Food Addiction on the Geocache Diet? Day 191  |
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