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Getting the Kids In the Kitchen + Our Snack Recipe

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  Beyond recipes, let's talk about kids, food, and kids and food. And because I can't help myself, I've included a fun recipe, too. Do you allow your kids in the kitchen? I'm not talking about letting them over the threshold to pour themselves a glass a milk or grab a snack. Do you let them create and be a part of the cooking process? Sure, they're messy, and the odds are high that occasionally they will create something you may need to dispose of, discreetly of …

Filed Under: Recipes, Snacks Tagged With: cooking, Educations, fun, kids, kitchen, recipe

Pleasantville Christmas Photo A Day

By //  by Katja Wulfers 2 Comments

At Life In Pleasantville we like to colour outside the lines, so for our first Annual Pleasantville Christmas Photo A Day Challenge we decided to begin November 25; December 1st has so been done, am I right? We’re also a bit excited about the season — SANTA’S COMING! — and we know many of you are, too. To help us remember to appreciate the little things, let’s stop and notice all the joy and silliness and fun happening around us by taking a photo that captures the mood. How To Play …

Filed Under: Christmas, Holidays Tagged With: Christmas, fun, Holidays, Instagram, photo a day, photo challenge, photo-a-day challenge, photography, Social Media

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Royal Agricultural Winter Fair

By //  by Katja Wulfers 3 Comments

The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair opens its doors November 7, 2014 for the 92nd instalment of what has become a favourite Toronto tradition. The fair brings together the best of Canadian agricultural producers and animals, great food and chefs, as well as international level riders who compete for the top prizes in their respective fields. It runs November 7 – 16, 2014 with activities and competitions going on all day and well into the witching hours. People come to work hard and play hard at …

Filed Under: Canada, Family Fun, Ontario, Travel Tagged With: agriculture, cattle, chefs, competition, dogs, Fair, families, family outing, farm animals, farmers, farming, food, food competitions, fun, goats, Guy McLean, horse show, horses, Ontario, restaurants, Royal, Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, sheep, show jumping, The Royal, top chefs, Toronto, Toronto tourism

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What’s Wrong with Santa Claus?

By //  by Candace Sampson 13 Comments

I am forty-four years of age and my dad has still not admitted to me that there is no Santa Claus. It has been a bit of an ongoing thing with us for the last thirty-five years or so, when I first started to question the existence of the jolly old elf. I would needle him trying to get him to admit that he and my mom were actually behind it all. My dad would get a twinkle in his eye and an amused smile across his face and insist that “Yes, Candace, there is a Santa Claus.”   In all …

Filed Under: Christmas, Everything Christmas, Holidays, Martini Mommy, Uncategorized Tagged With: Christmas, fun, kids, lies, myth, Santa Claus, telling kids

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