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Since my folks decided they’d rather cruise through the Panama Canal over Christmas than spend it in -20 below Edmonton, we had an early Tousignant-Armstrong Christmas this year! The day started off with a visit from Santa at the Glenora Indoor Playground Christmas party (notice Elodie’s lack of enthusiasm about going anywhere near the jolly […]

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The girls are often getting in trouble by finding my favourite shoes and trying to walk around the house in them so I guess it’s not too surprising that their elves, chosen for them by Santa, would have the same shoe affinity! Interestingly enough, Elodie left alone with all the shoes, skips the FLuevogs and […]

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Well, the magic elves have been a success! The only drawback is rather than creating one day of excitement where the kids wake up really early and rush into the living room; I think we’ve now created 25 such days in the month of December! Isabelle woke up at 5:30am yesterday to find out what […]

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The girls were pretty excited to discover their two magic elves, Ginger and Kasey this morning! This, followed by the arrival of grand-maman and grand-papa and putting up the Christmas tree, made for a fantastic day! Isabelle actually requested to go to bed, since once we all fall asleep, her magic elf will come to […]

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Inspired by a recent article I saw about a family ‘bringing to life’ their kids’ toy dinosaurs with various night time adventures (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/refe-tuma/dinovember_b_4270164.html) we’ve decided to try to add some non-present-focussed holiday magic to the girls Christmas this year. Two magic elves have just arrived from the North Pole to visit with the girls until […]

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Since the temperature had finally risen from -25 to a more reasonable -4, while Michelle went for a run, I took the girls out for a play in the snow. Here are the resulting antics in the yard.

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If you don’t live in Edmonton you probably aren’t aware of the fact that the last few days have been cold in Edmonton. I mean COLD!! So despite beautiful blue sky days and an incredible amount of fresh snow outside, the Armstrong family has been trying to keep entertained indoors. In a household that’s 75% […]

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Since Spring, Michelle and I have been training to run the Shawnigan Lake Half-Marathon, which just happened to take place earlier today. It was the first time I’d ever run in a proper half-marathon, and since my longest training run was 20km, it was also the furthest I had ever run in my life. It […]