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2023 Year in Review

Posted on December 26, 2023 by Leah
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This is always a fun one to write to capture the year in review too! 2023 had a lot going on – here are some of the highlights and lowlights and everything in between in no particular order Zandra and … Continue reading →

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Rob’s 2023 Christmas Poem

Posted on December 26, 2023 by Leah
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Although this blog runs a little sparse these days, there are a few “must captures”. Rob’s Christmas poem is one for sure: Christmas 2023  It all started clear another CDF year It started with one of our New Yorker crew … Continue reading →

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CDFs in NYC

Posted on January 15, 2023 by Leah
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We visited NYC as a family when the kids were much younger – in 2014! I can’t believe how much we travelled that year bcs it was the year Rob had a heart attack – but we still managed to … Continue reading →

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Christmas 2022

Posted on December 31, 2022 by Leah
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I didn’t do a great job of taking pictures this year. Terrible, actually. Except maybe of Reggie. He really is my favourite child. HA! But despite the lack of pictures (well you see there ARE pictures but I am missing … Continue reading →

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Rob’s Christmas Eve 2022 poem!

Posted on December 25, 2022 by Leah
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2022 PoemWelcome to Christmas 2022Buckle up there’s a lot to get through Although interest rates grow higher; Santa’s elves never tire We finished 2022 with payments a little higher, Gabe and Shannon travel down to the wire, but warm and … Continue reading →

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Rob’s 2021 Christmas Poem

Posted on December 31, 2021 by Leah
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Christmas 2021 Clickity clack Covid don’t come back. What a crazy year, on that point let’s be clear! Birthdays and such started early in the year with Shannon, then  Josh, Leah, Zandra, Zach, Gabe and Sam too,  And half a … Continue reading →

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Christmas 2021

Posted on December 31, 2021 by Leah
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We had a full house this Christmas! Everyone arrived home except for Josh – who stayed out in Jasper to work at the Fairmont Jasper Lodge. Rob and I first went out to the “Winter Village” (aka The Toronto Christmas … Continue reading →

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Christmas 2020

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Leah
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Well Christmas 2020 was NOT the usual. But nothing about 2020 was usual. With Zach being on his mission in Calgary (Lethbridge) and Gabe stuck in the US waiting for his green card, we knew we were down two for … Continue reading →

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Rob’s Christmas Eve Poem 2020

Posted on December 24, 2020 by Leah
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2020  2020 really not funny! But without fear and to social distance we adhere We begin our remembrance of the year! We had two early birthdays that’d be Shannon and Josh In hindsight we should have traveled and been more … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Week

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Leah
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“Faith is taking the first step even when you do not see the whole staircase” Martin Luther King Jr. It was a different Christmas this year. And truthfully, I’m not sad to see it go. There were many amazing things … Continue reading →

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