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Selena

Welcome to the 5th edition of Real Mama Life!  <<< (click there to learn more about how you can participate!)

Where we embrace the glory and humour in the chaos. Un-staged and imperfectly beautiful.’

Fingernails should be dirty.

Paint should be splattered and smeared about.

Laughter and shrieks should echo.

Water should be splashed in, endlessly.

We should give our neighbours something to talk about, what with our tailgate parties and vegetable gardens instead of lawns.

There should be an endless supply of freezies, popsicles and ice-cream.

Watermelon should drip down chins and all over clothes without a worry.

Neighbourhood friendships betwixt children should flourish.

Hair should be sticky and tangled with sunscreen, sand, mud, paint and food.

Music. There should always be music.

These are all signs of a glorious day full of exploration, free play and release in the life of a young child.

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DIY Spring & Summer Sensory Bins For Toddlers

May 15, 2013
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#RealMamaLife: There Is No Pause Button

May 13, 2013

Welcome to the 4th edition of Real Mama Life!  <<< (click there to learn more about how you can participate!) ‘Where we embrace the glory and humour in the chaos. Un-staged and imperfectly beautiful.’

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#RealMamaLife: Mish Mash of Carnivale

May 6, 2013

Welcome to the 3rd edition of Real Mama Life!  <<< (click there to learn more about how you can participate!) ‘Where we embrace the glory and humour in the chaos. Un-staged and imperfectly beautiful.’ You guys.  I have some random thoughts, feelings and questions today, this carnival-esque feeling start to the week. My head is spinning with work [...]

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Slow Cooked Goodness: Pineapple, Maple Smoked BBQ Pulled Chicken

May 2, 2013

Obviously I couldn’t share a homemade BBQ sauce recipe without a delicious meat dish to slowly simmer that goodness all day in. Hence crock pot pulled chicken. Specifically pineapple pulled chicken, with smokey BBQ sauce. Why the pineapple? Honestly, I had pineapple that had to be eaten and I took a guess that the combo would taste good. I [...]

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Homemade Smokey Maple BBQ Sauce: Refined Sugar & Ketchup Free

May 2, 2013

In my quest to please the BBQ sauce loving person in our home (because saying I wanted to please ‘my man’ with homemade BBQ sauce made my brain slightly implode and ideas of feminist revolt started to trickle in. But it’s true, so. Lawd BBQ sauce is complicated), and satisfy my desire to make my own condiments from scratch; [...]

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#RealMamaLife: Weekend Wrap-up Pictorial

April 29, 2013

Welcome to the 2nd edition of Real Mama Life!  <<< (click there to learn more about how you can participate!) ‘Where we embrace the glory and humour in the chaos. Un-staged and imperfectly beautiful.’ Good things always beging with a great beer. I saved this juicy beauty all week in the fridge to savour come 5pm on Friday [...]

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Real Mama Life: On Gardening & Libations

April 22, 2013

Welcome to the 1st edition of Real Mama Life!  <<< (click there to learn more about how you can participate!) ‘Where we embrace the glory and humour in the chaos. Un-staged and imperfectly beautiful.’ Oh, Monday mornings. Especially more manic when you’ve been away for the weekend. Today has been a day of catching up on [...]

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Real Mama Life: Introducing a New Monday Blogger Link Up

April 19, 2013

If you’re looking for this week’s link-up, you can find it here! Several variations of articles of this nature have been circulating the web these days and I have to say I somewhat agree… 

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