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Being Health Conscious (Part 4): Plastics
Here is my fourth part to our Health Consciousness at the Argyll home. Part 1: Pancakes Part 2: GMOs Part 3: Sugar and Toxins A while back, my husband had sent me an article about the toxicity of...
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Making a Sourdough Starter: The Excitement of a Week
My first sourdough loaf The other night, my husband and I were invited to a potluck. I was especially unprepared for this potluck as I hadn’t prepared anything to bring. So, I ended up bringing a loaf...
View ArticleA Lesson in Parenting: My Babysitting Adventure
A few weeks ago, my husband and I had the opportunity to babysit my year and a half old nephew. Before going out for the evening, my sister was very thorough in going over what I could give him as...
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The Famous Japanese Onsen
What is a Japanese Onsen? An onsen is equivalent to the hot springs we have in Canada except for some very important differences. The water used both in Canada and Japan come from springs in the...
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Making a Sourdough Starter: The Dismal Truth
Do you think it’s still alive? It doesn’t seem to move when I tip the jar. Since I last wrote about my sourdough starter, I haven’t actually made any more sourdough. My starter has sat starving in the...
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Climbing Mount Fuji: 8 Hours of Lava and Clouds all for Bragging Rights
View of Mt. Fuji from our hotel room The day we climbed Mt. Fuji, we woke up at 5am, an hour before we needed to. From our hotel window, we had a beautiful view of Mt. Fuji. After getting ready and...
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Do onions really absorb bacteria and viruses?
I had just gotten over a two week cold. I had been healthy for a week and then, BAM- I felt achy and sick again. I upped my vitamin D, had a hot lemon drink, and got to bed early. My husband, who is...
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Going Plastic Free: What to do about Shampoo?
My shampoo progression (from left to right): Normal Shampoo, Healthy Shampoo, Bar Soap, Baking Soda I first stopped using regular shampoo when I found out that the scents that they add to most products...
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What is a Dutch oven anyways?
I grew up with two older brothers. As a young girl, I looked up to them and this admiration resulted in me developing a crude sense of humour. My sense of humour wasn’t inappropriately crude, but...
View ArticleMaking Eye Contact in the City
I grew up in a smaller city of 25 000 people. This city wasn’t the safest of places despite its small population, but nonetheless people were generally friendly. It was pretty common to smile and say,...
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Chomp Chomp Chomp
Before we were married, my husband and I had a married couple over for dinner one Sunday evening. I had met her through a friend of mine originally and had met him through our community. I was...
View ArticleWisdom Teeth
It seems like most people have a story about getting their wisdom teeth out, or if not that, most people have some story about going to the dentist. I recently watched Michael McIntyre “Dentist” story...
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The Fruit Fly Trap Solution
My husband and I have had a fruit fly problem since we moved into our apartment. They show up in the weirdest places- like our bathroom. We were hypothesizing that they actually come from other...
View ArticleThe Pains of Pregnancy Brain
Recently, I have developed terrible pregnancy brain/baby brain, or whatever you want to call it. I’ll blame that for the fact that I haven’t been writing consistently and updating my blog. In fact, I...
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Pickle Jar Uses
Several months ago I bought a 4 L jar of pickles from Costco. When I brought it home, we had no space for it in the cupboards or in the fridge, so I left it on the floor. My husband was not too...
View ArticleHome Birth 101: Don’t move on the same day
It’s been a while since I wrote and part of that is because we bought a home and mostly because we had a baby. I was actually working on a post about our home buying process which hasn’t gotten...
View ArticleFirst Time Homebuyers from Hell
We started going to open houses last spring and then, seriously started house hunting in May when we found out where my husband would be working. We looked and looked. The friend who had recommended...
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Baby Exercises
I was skyping with my sister the other day. Both of our babies pooped at the same time, so we took a break to change them. When I came back, my sister was already there, I told her, “Just hang on a...
View ArticleConversations with Allan
Mr. Popular Allan: “I got 3 text messages.” Me, in a mocking tone: “From your mom.” Allan checks his phone and grins, “No,” pause, “from your mom.” Chocolate Allan is pretty into health. He takes...
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Gardening Adventures and Allan’s Regrets
Privacy Trees Privacy Pyramid Poplars One of the first things I noticed about our yard was the placement of three pyramid poplars. They were so placed that it looked like the previous owner really...
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