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Happy Things Friday: 10 Nov

Is anyone else excited today is Friday? It’s an extra long weekend for the kids; today involves a school in-service and Monday is a day off to commemorate Canadian Remembrance Day. We don’t have…

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  • Happy Things Friday, NaBloPoMo
  • Nov, 10, 2023
  • 41 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 3 November

The countdown has begun. Once we hit November, the holiday season seems to be “on.” I don’t decorate before Canadian Remembrance Day (11 November) – but I aim to have the artificial tree assembled…

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  • Happy Things Friday, NaBloPoMo
  • Nov, 03, 2023
  • 41 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 27 October

First, how did we get to the end of October already? The time has flown but things have also felt desperately heavy and sad in the world this month. The rapid escalation of conflict…

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  • Happy Things Friday, Lighthouses
  • Oct, 27, 2023
  • 32 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 20 October

It’s that time of the week again, folks! Buckle up for some Happy Things.

If this has been a hard week, I’m sorry. If you can’t identify any Happy Things, that’s okay! Hopefully, this…

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  • Happy Things Friday, Life
  • Oct, 20, 2023
  • 35 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 13 October

I’m coming into the weekend tired, but relieved. There were two intense days of work meetings which I dreaded (for no particular reason). Everything went swimmingly and represented a major milestone in my current…

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  • Happy Things Friday, Thrifting
  • Oct, 13, 2023
  • 33 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 6 October

I made note of Happy Things every day since we last chatted about this and the list got long. Overall, it was a really nice week. I was flying solo with the kids (not…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • Oct, 06, 2023
  • 43 Comments

Introducing: Happy Things Friday

In an effort to focus on the good things in life – the happy things – I present a new weekly feature on the blog:

Happy Things Friday.

I loved prepping my Casual Friday…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • Sep, 29, 2023
  • 39 Comments
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