Progress: #10. Do something active for 3 months straight

 I felt too tired to update yesterday. My daughter and I drove to Aga Khan Museum and Park and toured around.

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Completed: #22. Try at least three "life hacks"

 3/3: Shoe hangers to organize kids' toys.

I picked pink to match her room and brown for the living room / play room.

We have a living room couch again! 

Kid-approved!

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Progress: #10. Do something active for 3 months straight

Today I drove to High Park with my daughter and we walked around, and had a picnic lunch. It was an absolutely gorgeous unseasonably warm fall day.

 From 2009 - 2012, I lived in Roncesvalles Village and, from 2012 - 2016, I lived in Bloor West Village, so I spent seven years of my life living on different sides of the park. It was very neat to drive my daughter through my old stomping grounds, and take her to a place I often walked through, once picnicked and ice-skated in, and even walked through on my first date with her dad. 

I love and miss High Park. I wish I lived closer. It's Toronto's second (?) largest park - impossible to completely traverse in a day - and probably its most beautiful. 

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Completed: #28. Start my own sprouts

 

I'm finally putting to use some sprouting supplies my little sister gave me almost two years ago, and aiming to sprout some mustard seeds and some chickpeas. I used the book pictured (also from Book Outlet) as an easy instructional (and, as a bonus, it also has instructionals for growing mushrooms, which is another goal for another day).

I'll let you know how it works out in 4-6 days and, if it goes well for me, I'll try to sprout some rapini and arugula seeds next. Exciting!

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Progress: #10. Do something active for 3 months straight

 This morning I did a 25 minute yoga video with my daughter, who requested it by pointing at my yoga mat and throwing her arms up in the air.

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Progress: #22. Try at least three "life hacks"

 I bought these three books online at Book Outlet, at even greater than their usual discounted price, because they were having a sale. I know this same "hack" information would be easy to find online, but I still really prefer the tangibility of books (and pen to paper). 

I read these, and took copious notes!

Hacks already accomplished in the past month:

Hack 1/3: Preventing imminent coughs and sneezes -- As someone who sometimes holds a sleeping baby and often has an unappeasable throat tickle, these are invaluable already: 1. To stop a tickle in your throat, massage your ear lobe. Apparently, it stimulates nerves that trigger a spasm that "scratches" your throat. 2. I'm not sure why this works, but if you're about to sneeze, place your tongue on the roof of your mouth. The urge will disappear.

Hack 2/3: If you burn something difficult while cooking (i.e. sugar), boil white vinegar in the pot for 15 minutes and it will uncrust itself, ready to be easily scrubbed clean. The clean pot will also be shinier than it was before you even burned anything at all!

Progress for #3: I bought some shoe organizers to hang and store my daughter's toys, which are beginning to take over the living room couch.

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Progress: #10. Do something active for 3 months straight

 My daughter and I drove 20ish minutes to the beautiful Wilket Park and walked around there and the adjoining E. T. Seton Park. I doubt we'll get another day this beautiful this autumn. (Was this record breaking? I'm not used to t-shirt weather in November). 

We had a little picnic lunch and then drove to the nearby Urban Nature Store. I bought myself a guide to animal footprints, a Christmas gift for a family member, and an Audubon American Goldfinch toy for my daughter (We're collecting birds we've seen in our own backyard -- thus far, she has a Cardinal, American Robin, Downy Woodpecker, Chickadee, Blue Jay, and now this one).

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