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Family Cooking Time

If you’ve followed our family over the years you know that locally sourcing products has been a goal of ours. I love to support Canadian companies as much as possible. Naturally when Janes reached out to partner we were so excited to share a product we’ve been buying for years. Janes produces high quality fish and chicken that we use to make quick and easy meals. Our weekly go-to is a crispy chicken caesar salad. The kids LOVE this meal and I love the simple quality ingredients that go into it. Plus it takes under 25 minutes. Mom score!

Here’s our quick and simple recipe to help you take back your time in the kitchen, so you can have more time with those that matter most:

Crispy Chicken Caesar Salad: (4 servings) 

1/2 box of Janes Pub Style Chicken Nuggets (I found mine in my local grocers frozen food section)

1 small box Mixed Organic Greens of choice

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This Family Day Long Week… #yeg

With Family Day fast approaching I’m so excited to share a family favourite meal with you! We definitely find the winter hectic in our household. Between school, soccer, skiing lessons and my husband’s shift work it can be hard to meal plan something healthy and delicious every single day. Luckily we’ve been LOVING Panda Express, it’s well-balanced, fast and affordable meals that my whole family loves. We can each customize our plate options so even my pickiest eater happy (IE my husband 😂). It’s the best of both “woks!” 

If you were looking to try it as a family, this Family Day kids eat free with any bowl or plate purchase! Panda Express has crave-worthy meals made with quality ingredients, fresh vegetables, at least 8g of protein, and only 300 calories or less. Just look for the Wok Smart logo when ordering. My kids love the grilled vegetables and the new honey chicken. 

Here are three Edmonton locations offering the kids eat free promotion for the Family Day: https://www.pandaexpress.ca/en/locations

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Style || Protecting Those Peepers

Because of my skincare routine I was very aware that Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is always present and prolonged UV exposure poses some health risks. By partnering with ZEISS I learned UV exposure can also be harmful to the eyes and surrounding tissue. I definitely wear sunglasses for protection but now with my new ZEISS lenses I get protection with my eye glasses too! ZEISS has created a new standard of care by including full UV protection in all clear plastic lenses – something no other lens manufacturer is offering. This is the highest in the industry and helps protect against photoaging and some eye diseases. Best of all? They have not patented this technology in hopes other manufactures will also adopt this technology in their lenses to provide protection for all eye glasses wearers. I love that they are willing to share this technology for our safety and I am so proud to partner with a brand with those values.

If you are local, stop in at Smith & Wight Opticians. I loved my shopping experience at this optometrist. The frame selection is MASSIVE and their team is beyond helpful when you need to narrow down your selections. The exam was so smooth and the whole process was a breeze. My optometrist even took the time to explain to me the differences between the different types of lenses offered and educated me on why my vision has changed after my pregnancy! Plus they are a local ZEISS retailer.

disclaimer: this post was not paid by ZEISS or Smith & Wight but sample product was supplied for testing purposes.

Holiday Family Traditions || #hannaJams #giveaway #gotitfree

I said to my husband two years ago that I was feeling like we didn’t have many holiday traditions. I loved growing up with consistent events and activities this time of year. It was something I looked forward to and now look back fondly on. From Christmas morning hikes, to oranges as the final piece to our stocking; I loved the little festive details my parents created. When Ally was born, I would consider our first Christmas as a family a completely write off. He was only a few months old and I was just trying to survive the new born exhaustion. But now that the kids are getting bigger we wanted to start our family traditions for them.

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One of the traditions I loved is our Christmas Eve Pyjamas. Each year in the evening on the brink of Christmas day, we let the kids open one family gift. It’s always new matching family jams. We then lounge together. I love this holiday tradition. The cozy feeling, matching makes us feel like a unit and it helps to transition to bedtime!

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Thank you Hanna Anderson for sending us this matching set. They are such great quality. I will say, that has been one of the struggles this fast year is a) trying prints in all sizes b) finding material that I’m actually okay with on my kids sensitive skin. Hanna is by far the softness and most durability family jams I’ve tried. Plus they are crafted with the very best organic cotton.

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What are you traditions? 

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It’s starting to feel a lot like Christmas! || Holiday Home Tour #cbhometour

It’s one of my favourite posts of the year in the home decor department. It’s holiday home tour time! Before we get started I just wanted to thank Shannon of Home Made Lovely and Christina of The DIY Mommy for organizing this home tour every year! I find it so inspiring to see everyone’s seasonal takes on home and style. Be sure to follow along at the end of my tour to catch a glimpse into several beautiful homes from bloggers all across Canada.

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Now it’s time to tour all of the other beautiful homes in the Christmas Canadian Bloggers Home Tour hop this season!

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