tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80942517061323707782026-10-10T02:18:12.811-04:00is a social moms destination blog for inspiration, trends, reading and motivation to being the best Social Outgoing Mom you want to be!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05914345204587619466noreply@blogger.comBlogger221125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8094251706132370778.post-80563626023235198762018-04-10T01:47:00.001-04:002018-04-10T01:47:44.867-04:00

I have loved this blog, to the point where I refused to let it run it's course. Before I started Mommydoings, I wrote a trend hunting blog. I went to Fashion school, worked in magazine production been on set with some of the best Canadian photographers, seen models, produced catwalks, fashion launches and most of all had friends who were stylists and makeup artists. And then I had babies and

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I have not written in over a year. So much has happened, so much content I wanted to share and haven't. 2017 was how do you say it a bit of a nightmare. It was tumultuous. So much good happened in a way, so much not good. But let's be honest its about perspective. I get to stay humble. I say that all bad moments are for balance. Life is a pendulum... if it moves into the direction of chaos it

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I read a ton, actually I probably read more articles than anyone I know and it probably gets in the way of my productivity, but I digress... I read about what affects growing up in this generation and how lack of being kids; my kids will get to be because of the age of the Internet. And then my children started asking for phones, because every kid in their new private school and their younger

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May is always a kind of beginning month for our household... being from Toronto it is the start of better weather, when you start to plan new adventures and when our second daughter was born. Now here in LA, it feels like a different kind of new. A relish in the difference. This is our first May here... We have gone into full assault into our business this month, not the month one usually

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I am part of a group of Entrepreneurs on Facebook and recently someone asked if it's ok to be referred to as a #GirlBoss and a bunch of women went into a tirade of how they felt about the term. And then as usual I couldn't sit idle and not comment. It is hard being a mother of girls... with all the new feminism taking over. It's ok to be a feminist like this, doing feminism like this... and

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I love writing and sharing... and then I stopped. I didn't stop because I stopped feeling the loved; so where did I go? I think I got lost where many women/mother's disappear to. I found myself in the abyss of not sureness. That place where you aren't sure what you are doing is of any interest to people, that the mundane collects all the creativity you have and hoards it deep inside your

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Happy New Year! Many of things have happened this last year... many leading to our greatest adventure. The say change is hard... and I never got scared of change. Actually many will say I am heartless because rarely am I affected by change. But here I stand perplexed by the feelings bombarding my psyche as we speak. I appreciate the confused feelings I am having... they are the reality that

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People always ask how it is to be a parent of many children... while I usually feel like saying it is just what it is; I understand that our lifestyle/household isn't the norm. So most people don't have 4 kids. So most people who have 4 kids don't live in a home in a downtown core with limited space. But I don't deem my life any different than those with 1 kid or 2. The only truth I know is I

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It's an interesting day when you walk into your local Starbucks and one of your favorite barista starts her greeting with your kids are the best. The last time we were in there my daughters followed her around the store talking to her about themselves and learning about how the coffee shop runs itself. That day in particular my daughter was beaming from ear to ear because she had beat her fellow

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Our house has been in a chaos that hasn't quit since May. Almost every detail has been painted, renovated and primped. This is the first time since having babies that Thanksgiving is being put aside. We are prepping our house and it's just almost done but not enough to be up for sale. Yes, I just wrote that down SALE. Can't pull off a large dinner and prepare to give our house to the real

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Today I stared at my kitchen almost in disbelief... not because it's so awesome (though it totally is) but because I got a lot of backlash for some of design decisions I was going to make when putting the whole thing together yet all together it seems to fit together perfectly. Pink Ceilings I am a true girl at heart... I've envisioned a pink kitchen and one day will get it but I had seen a

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Where does one start about the maniacal adventures of a home reno, but through the kitchen!?!? We knew we needed to update our old and tired kitchen and it just never seemed to fit us. After the cruel winter, the burst water pipes, the decision to make a coffered ceiling in the space... we went looking for advice and was told that what we had on our hands was the ultimate space for a kitchen.

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Being a mom has a lot of blessed moments... being a mom has it's bad moments but no one ever prepares you for all the hair loss you experience either after birth or after weaning from breast feeding. The struggle is real my friends. Every pregnancy was a hair story for me. My first was a hair nightmare. I could barely brush my hair my head was constantly sore just touching it with a brush. I

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We decided to renovate our house... we decided to take the leap to renovate while living in the house pregnant or with a newborn. 3 othe kids 7 years old or under and a million items to deal with. The start and catalyst of our renos was our old living room which we wanted it to become our new kitchen. Meaning figuring out Gas and water even electrical. We took on this project as a full time job.

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I started Mommy Doings years ago as a young mom who wanted to write about what a mom is doing... that you can be a relevant person without being pigeonholed a mom. Like some how that connotation was frowned upon. Many things have changed since I started the blog... I never appreciated the platform I had because I didn't enjoy the term Mom blogger. I didn't enjoy the label because I was more than

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Last year I endeavored to renovate my house with my whole family still living in it. It appears I figured it would be totally acceptable to lose my mind, my sanity and my better sense of judgement. Did I mention, I envisioned myself going full tilt in my renos with baby #4 in my belly? We had a huge burst pipe in what was our living room ceiling and that sprinted us into completely changing the

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I rarely post about celebrity on here. While I like to take a position of all moms are equals, celebrity doesn't have it any different. They are solely responsible for raising their kid as they see fit... if they fail or succeed its really up to them. Just like it is for us. Juggling parenthood is hard. Being a mom to 4 kids is hard. And I appreciate when I get help. Actually help isn't the word

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I don't post much lately... which is quite sad. Honestly sad. I do miss blogging, I miss sharing... but who knew 4 babies would alter your train of thought. Each child uniquely easy... one likes colouring, the other to play outside, one reading or Dora episodes on TV and the other just breastfeeding... but put them together and somehow more than one is begging for your attention. There is a ton

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It's been an exhausting year and I haven't posted or even shared we were expecting #4 on here. But I wanted to come on and share it's been too long. With the holidays we are just so excited to have 4 beautiful girls growing in our family. We are in such awe of how uniquely different each of them are from each other but also how sweet and jovial they also can be. We took them down to the Eaton

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Most people relish Christmas. I love Christmas, I love it even more since having kids. But it still doesn't compare to Easter for me. Christmas to me is one day. All this planning and organizing for one day and its done. People seem to get tired of all the Holiday parties... I never get tired of Easter. Easter is over a week of family getting together, doing stuff. Its always been that way. My

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At the beginning of the year I posted about Mom shaming... I discussed at large how social media oddly makes you feel like you aren't good enough.   As of the last week, I've read 2 separate articles about stop playing with your kid or your kids life shouldn't be magical.   Now I'm not going to tell you what to do because I value the other moms I call my friends and what works for

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Sometimes evictions just happen and they change the course of things to come.

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The Dufour-Lapointe Sisters The Olympics have started, did you miss the memo?? How can you, my Facebook and Twitter are flooded with news stories about the Olympics and all the reason why the Russians weren't prepared, why we should boycott them for their political positions and so on. I literally could go on and on about the news stories coming out from the concerning to the truly

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I am not a superstitious person, I struggle with the idea of fate and if destiny is a thing, I truly believe we play a role on how destiny plays out. I am a fair believer in horoscopes, Chinese and Western versions, as a math devotee I also believe in numerology. Yet no one of these can be appreciated or practiced without the other in my opinion. So when the New Year came, it blanketed my hopes

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You know what sucks about owning your own business, the little amount of time you get to spend with your family. I think our eldest girls are really feeling it the most. So much their age group could do but so little amount of time in the day to fit them in. While my Mike and I meander throughout the day on balancing who is doing what we can do, I do relish the time we do get to spend with them

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