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With the rising cost of living, we are working hard to keep costs down this year. If you’re also staying close to home, but don’t want to sacrifice fun, here are nine cheap family fun activities. Ice Skating Skating is cheap family fun at its finest. We often forget to check out the public skate […]

9 Cheap Family Fun Activities in the Fraser Valley

water mania in richmond offers cheap family fun activites

Lifestyle, Motherhood

Lifestyle, Motherhood

Christine Coughlin leaning against her kitchen island smiling at the camera, fresh veggies sit on the counter.

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Do the cost of groceries have you feeling like you can’t ever get ahead? I have a hack to get you $130 worth of free groceries! We’ve been using Hello Fresh for years since Iyla was a newborn, so they let me offer you up to $130 in free groceries. With no catch! 🎉 Sound […]

Get $130 Worth of Free Groceries- Mom Hack

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In May 2020, my privilege as a middle-class white woman suddenly became crystal clear. I am embarrassed that I had been asleep to the issues surrounding racialized communities my entire life. At that moment, I promised to do better and start my education on raising an anti-racist family. You can read my initial realization, Am […]

How to Raise An Anti-Racist Family

Motherhood

Motherhood, Wellness

110 side hustle ideas for moms

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Are you looking for a flexible side-hustle that works around #momlife? Check out this list to help get your creative juices flowing. Who knows, maybe your side hustle could even grow into your full-time hustle one day. 110 Side Hustle Ideas for Moms Enter your name and email address below, and 110 side hustle ideas […]

110 Side Hustle Ideas for Moms

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The dreaded Pinterest Moms, you know the ones. They craft all the things, bake everything from scratch and generally make everyone else feel like crap for not doing the same. So annoying, am I right? The truth is from afar, and if you squint a little, I could be classified as a “Pinterest Mom,” so […]

Are Pinterest Moms the Enemy?

Christine Coughlin leaning on her kitchen island with a laptop in front of her, smiling at the camera

Curious Living, Motherhood

Motherhood, Wellness

how to avoid holiday burnout

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After years of running my mental health into the ground over the holidays, I realized I had to find another way to avoid passing the tradition of Mommy burnout onto my kids. I’ve been working hard to recalibrate our holidays so that I’m not broken come January and reached out to several local ladies and […]

Tips to Avoid Holiday Burn-out, Featuring The Panel

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After we almost swore off travelling with our kids for good, I reached out to several friends and asked if travelling with their kids made them also question their life choices.  The “good” news is the answer was mostly yeses all around, phew! Misery loves company, am I right? Duplicating Success Then in 2020, we […]

Tips for Travelling with Kids, Featuring The Panel

tips for travelling with kids

Lifestyle, Motherhood, Travel

Motherhood, Wellness

mothers mental health compassion

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When Maddie was tiny, she looked at me and asked: “Mommy, do you even love me?”⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀The question shattered me. I wanted to whisper to my sweet girl, “yes, baby, with all my heart, I love you, but mommy doesn’t value herself.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀We can never prepare ourselves for how our kids will shine a floodlight on the […]

Mommy, Do You Love Me?

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Being the logistics manager for tiny humans can make you believe nag is your default setting. Don’t believe the lies!⁣My mantra, for when life throws all the potty training accidents, the uncertainty of raising my kids during a global pandemic and sleepless nights at me, goes as follows:⁣⁣I love my kids; ⁣I love my kids, […]

A Mantra for Exhausted Moms

a mantra for exhausted moms, christine coughlin

Motherhood

Motherhood, Wellness

moms mental health

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A few months ago, I came across the quote, ” The opposite of depression is vitality.” ⁣⁣It resonated deeply for me because I had been working so hard to rediscover my zest for life. ⁣⁣Flash forward to this COVID world, and I can feel my vitality slipping away and my inner critic fighting to retake […]

Momma’s Lost Her Groove