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Happy Birthday

Wendy turns 41 today and yesterday we celebrated with some good friends and Lee. She posts about the day and the gifts on her blog but the day was basically spent handing out with friends, Wendy playing Bejewelled Twist, and relaxing with the boys. Happy birthday Wendy and just think, from now until March 11th, [...]

Christmas Gifts For Your Wife / Girlfriend & the other women in your life (2010 edition)

Nov 11th, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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Shopping for Wendy has always been hard. She never gives me any ideas and the ideas that she does give me are things that two days later she no longer wants. For all of you who are married or dating someone who is hard to shop for, here is the list of Christmas gift suggestions [...]

Christmas gift ideas for your tween boy | 2010 edition

Nov 1st, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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Mark is now ten which makes him officially impossible to buy Christmas gifts for. He is too old for kids stuff and too young for adult things. We have tossed around hundreds of ideas for Mark and here are a bunch of ideas that we thought could make your Christmas shopping a little easier this [...]

A Trip to the Nintendo DS Emergency Room

May 15th, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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Mark has been awfully quiet and sullen lately. He finally confessed to Wendy that his Nintendo DS was acting up and he was really stressed over it. The idea that a product only lasts a couple of years is a new one to Mark (I explained it to him today). Now Mark is not a [...]

Christmas Eve Live Blog

Dec 24th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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6:15 a.m. :: I hate early mornings. 6:30 a.m. :: Mark is up and showered and ready to go to work with me this morning. Rambling Dave just played Six White Boomers on C95. 7:10 a.m. :: Lineup at Tim Horton’s was too long so I skipped that place and went straight to work. Stopped [...]

Christmas Gift Ideas for Your Wife (and mother of your kids)

Nov 15th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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Update: The 2010 editions of the Christmas Gift Guides for Your Wife / Girlfriend is now online. Follow the link for more 2010 Christmas Gift Guides. Wendy is the world’s hardest women to shop for and the suggestions from Amazon Gift Central just inspired sarcastic mocking comments. Wendy asked me to put together a short [...]

Christmas Gift Ideas: Tween Boys

Oct 26th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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Well I don’t have a lot of experience in buying for tweens but Mark is officially one and I have put together a series of gift ideas that a nine year old boy would like. A lot of friends have asked me what I was getting Mark and the kind of things he likes which [...]

Future Shop

Dec 27th, 2008

by Jordon.

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My brother Lee gave Mark a Nintendo DS for Christmas. Mark had been working for me at the Centre helping with some odd jobs and had amassed some cash to save up for a DS (what a coincidence!). With his DS taken care of and a glut of cash, he wanted to go out an [...]