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1 month ago | 
savvymom.ca | Corinne McDermott |Heather Dixon |Caitlin McCormack |Kayla Young |Jan Scott |Lindsay Kneteman
These easy Mother's Day gift ideas are ones no mom would be disappointed to receive again and again. Isn’t that how traditions are started, anyway?
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
savvymom.ca | Heather Dixon |Savvy Mom.ca
My daughters, like most little kids, have a wide variety of interests. They love everything from dressing up to fishing and camping. They can’t really be pinned down to one ‘type’. In fact, my youngest likes to carry her toy race cars around in a pink, frilly purse. One of their greatest interests is princesses. They adore them. And since I try to let them explore just about everything and anything, I’ve been pretty okay with the princess obsession.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
savvymom.ca | Heather Dixon |Savvy Mom.ca
As a parent in the summer, I’m all about forgetting the rules and schedules. I’m perfectly okay with letting my kids live on cereal and popsicles all day and saying yes when they want to stay up late. But there’s also a part of me that feels this slight responsibility for their well-being, which includes their learning. I don’t really want to worry about reading and doing math and preparing them for the next school year right now.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
newinbooks.com | Stephen Hardy |Kate Hewitt |Carolyn Brown |Heather Dixon
in Books to Read if You Like..., eBook, Literary Fiction, News
6 Books to Read for Fans of Crazy Rich AsiansFrom personal struggles to navigating complicated family relationships, these novels promise to captivate and challenge readers in unexpected ways. If you’ve been charmed by the enthralling relationships in Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians, you’ll love these new novels.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
savvymom.ca | Heather Dixon |Savvy Mom.ca
My third daughter was born during a heat wave in May a few years ago. Unseasonably hot days will always bring me back to one of my most favourite family memories. That summer, when my maternity leave had started, my husband also took four months of paternity leave. The five of us—my husband and I and our three young daughters, all too young for school yet—were home together for four straight months. That time alone shaped our little family dynamic. We were fortunate.
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Oct 23, 2023 | 
greatbritishlife.co.uk | Heather Dixon
Lovely couple Oscar Boatfield and Nell Wharton set up The Wildish Club to ‘re-package the hippy culture’ and encourage a sense of community and wellbeing where they live in Pateley Bridge. We catch up with them in their coffee shop Oscar Boatfield was just eight years old when he started selling home grown chili plants to fund his childhood passion for fly fishing.
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Oct 1, 2023 | 
savvymom.ca | Heather Dixon |Savvy Mom
I can’t stop eating these pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. It might be because it’s fall and as soon as the air starts to cool, I get into baking/nesting/eating mode. It could be because these are amazingly delicious. Who knows? All I’m certain of is that these are really good – and they’re another treat I’m happy to put in my kids’ lunches. When I first made a batch of these, I decided to play around with the flour types and amounts.
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Sep 24, 2023 | 
ottawaathome.ca | Heather Dixon |Kate Heartfield |Jessica Knoll
From the moment I walked through the doors of Swathi Kappagantula’s Glebe home, I knew I’d entered a special place.
As a designer, my goal for clients was to create a home that intrinsically felt like theirs so anyone coming through their doors would develop a sense of the people occupying the space. This is often a challenge to achieve.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
netgalley.com | Heather Dixon
“Are you okay?” A wave of cold sweeps over Alex. The silence on the end of the phone seems to last forever. “It’s Dad,” her sister finally says. “He had a massive heart attack. He’s gone.”
When sisters Alex, Sam and Jess are called back to the family lake house in Summerville after the death of their beloved father, they learn that he was hiding a devastating secret.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
pregnantchicken.com | Heather Dixon |Emily Ramirez |Amy Morrison
From heartburn to morning sickness, and a whole lot of bumps and toots in between, there are a few tips and tricks to dealing with what ails you with natural remedies. Here are a few pieces touching on just that.
