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    App Love: RoadNinja – Navigation Tools for Drivers and a #giveaway

    I am an iPhone junkie. That’s right I love my iPhone with a passion that is not fleeting and I adore a good app or two. So here I give you another new series that I propose to regularly run on weekends. App Love. Just in time for Memorial Day in the US and a slew of summer holiday weekends and roadtrips, I give you RoadNinja a free app for iPhone and Android phones and iPad as well. Sadly, this gorgeous little app is only available in the U.S. so far, but marketing people tell me it may be available…

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    Cooking With Kids: More Babycakes Cake Pops

    Well here it is Thursday again and one more recipe for kids. Now, I know we’ve done these before, but it’s bake sale season and I couldn’t resist. Honestly there is no limit to the varieties of cake pops you can make. I start with my amazing Babycakes cake pop machine and from there it’s just a matter of knowing the tricks to make them pretty. So here is a lovely batch we made for the bake sale. I have learned that the cake pops have to be partly frozen before you ice them or put the sticks in and…

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    Wordless Wednesday: Long Weekend Travel–Bubble-licious

    We finally got away. It has been a difficult year as my readers know and so when the chance to visit Niagara Falls came up, well I jumped. Not literally. You know what I mean. Fun weekend away meant water slides and reconnecting as a family and disconnecting the devices and phones for a brief time. This was much needed. Time away from all the stresses. Water for my child, with sensory processing disorder, is a huge comfort and a calming tool. She would stay in the wave pool all day, or stand under the giant bucket that dumps water…

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    The Secret Life of Your Dishwasher #Finish Giveaway

    This is my third post as a Finish Revolution blogger and I am thrilled to offer my Canadian readers a giveaway, so they can join Finish Revolution too! Read all the way to the end and leave a comment about something new you learned while reading this post. And you could win two packages of Finish Quantum Tabs (20 tabs per package)As a Finish Revolution blogger I recently took part in a webinar with a dishwashing expert. She answered several pressing questions about dishwasher performance. I have been really clear during this campaign – I have used Finish Quantum Tabs…

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    150 Best Indian, Thai, Vietnamese and More Slow Cooker #Giveaway

    I love my slow cooker and I adore experimenting with recipe books. So naturally when this one came my way I saw a great opportunity to introduce my family to Indian and Thai food. I have never ever made Indian food before and my family is not accustomed to this style of cooking, so what fun! Anyways this amazing recipe book is all Indian, Thai and Vietnamese. There are over 150 different recipes. The book is published by Robert Rose. It is new and the author is Sunil Vijayakar.$27.95 in Canada. We tried Beef Madras. It was a treat. The…

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    Social Media Superstars: The Second Award Ever!

    Two weeks ago I announced the start of my Social Media Superstars Award. I gave the first ever to TD/Canada Trust and people were pretty happy about the series. It got a good response and frankly TD earned the award for all the reasons I told you here  Anyways it is time to dish one out again in honor of a company doing social media well, or at least trying to do it well. This week, the company I am highlighting is also Canadian. So Go Canada! Two awards. Two weeks in a row. Both to Canadians. Wow! Listen, I…

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    Cooking With Kids: Divine Pulled Pork sandwich recipe

    Well, this one is good. You are going to want to jot it down, or bookmark for life. Seriously. Mama went nuts for this delicious recipe. So here is my take on pulled pork. I started on line and my kids, well they have been asking to make this one for months. So finally we found the right cut of pork – a pork blade roast ($6) and we got the crock pot out this morning and got started. Put the pork in crockpot.Add two spoonfuls of vegetable oil.one half cup water3 bay leavesOne diced onion1 can tomato sauce1 can tomato…

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    Blissdom At Home and My Bliss Experience

    Last October I bought a last minute ticket to Blissdom Canada. It was an experience to remember. I still remember sitting in Shes Connected with a great bunch of friends and thinking how inspirational some of the speakers there were and that I really needed to be at the Blissdom Canada conference happening a couple of weeks later. It was sold out, as Blissdom often is, and I wasn’t sure we could afford it. Sponsorship wasn’t an option, because clearly it was too close to the event. And then there was my Mom, who had been really ill all summer.…

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    Where Do You Drink Your Water?

    The Backyard? The gym? The PTA meeting? In your house? At the mall? Where do you rehydrate? All you have to do is tell me where you drink your water and where you take your water bottles and you could win this Faboosh Rubbermaid giveaway. Water bottle with filter and extra packet (worth $20) I am, as you all know, nothing, if not active. My kids do a whole mess of activities and I have a lot on the go. Husband does too, in fairness to him. So, when we remember we take our water bottles, they go everywhere. Beach. Check.…