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Download Gummy Drop Free App Now Available for Android! Win a Samsung Galaxy or a Kindle Fire #Giveaways
Several months ago I reviewed Gummy Drop app here because it had just launched on iPad and iPhone. I remember this one well. It was a Match 3 free app that was a lot of fun. I enjoyed that it included a trip around the world, and a geography theme that I found engaging and educational. Today Big Fish’s fastest growing mobile app is now available for Android. Gummy Drop scored high on the gaming charts across all territories. Now this crowd-pleasing free app is available in the Amazon and GooglePlay app stores. All mobile players can access the free app now. Read on to find out how you can win…
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Soft Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
These are inspired. I wanted to make sugar cookies one day this past week and I was on a baking kick. And my favourite cookies ever are the soft ones that you buy at the grocery store, but I wondered if I could make something similar and add pumpkin. I was also on a pumpkin kick last week because who doesn’t love pumpkin flavour? There’s something so wonderfully fresh and comforting about pumpkin spice foods and baked goods. So I decided to try to create some awesome pumpkin sugar cookies and let me tell you these turned out so good!! I started with a basic sugar cookie recipe and then…
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Hamilton Beach Just Right Programmable Slow Cooker #TMMGG2014
This is one of my favourite gifts this year. The Hamilton Beach Programmable Right Size Slow Cooker is amazing. It’s the only crockpot you will ever need. Pair it with The Healthy Slow Cooker: 135 Gluten-Free Recipes for Health and Wellness for magical winter meals and it becomes a gorgeous Christmas present for any busy Mom, friend, sister-in-law, or aunt. I love this slow cooker. It is without a doubt the best slow cooker I have ever owned. The Hamilton Beach Just Right Programmable Slow Cooker has three sizes for food of various portions. You can cook a meal for three different levels – 2, 4 and 6 quarts. Enough to feed…
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New Year’s Roundup: Crafts, Food and Party Ideas
Hard to believe another year is almost over and the holidays are fast approaching. Once Christmas has come and gone there’s still New Year’s Eve to look forward to and, for entertainers, who love to host parties or help throw parties it can be the perfect chance to show off, or showcase your skills. I am not so naturally talented as an entertainer and I tend to require a bit of help. Pinterest and other bloggers can be great resources for party and craft ideas. I find all my new recipes on line actually. Whether you are naturally gifted at throwing a party, or you need help like…
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Limeapple Active Girls Clothing for Teens and Tweens Who Play Hard.
Active girls clothing makes a huge difference to sporty girls on the go. Ainsley is wearing one of the Limeapple active T-Shirts under her karate uniform. The material is soft and wicks away moisture (important for sporty tweens.) Have you met my sporty girls? Well, this one is a tween crime fighter. In her head anyways. Just kidding. She is a junior black belt. So is my older daughter. Together the dynamic duo dance, sing, act, ride horses, kick butt at martial arts and sparring and they also swim and run track. Occasionally they play soccer and do diving lessons and play street hockey too. My girls are extremely active…
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Free Printable Christmas Tree Coloring Page
As Christmas Day inches every closer you might be hunting for things to keep the kids occupied. I have always found coloring to be a simple and calm activity to get kids of all ages engaged in. When I ran a home daycare for a brief period when my kids were small, I often gave the kids crayons and coloring pages to calm them down before and after school. I loved the quietness of coloring. Plus for some of the kids it was their opportunity to just be still and occasionally it gave them a great little chance to just unload a pile of their worries. Little people worry…
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25 Most Popular Dolls Gift Roundup
I am the Mom of girls. I am more than familiar with dolls and brands of dolls and all their glorious accessories. From pretty much the moment my girls could speak, they were asking for dolls. Dolls for Christmas presents and dolls for birthdays too. This year there may be a couple of dolls on the Christmas lists too. Not saying which ones because my kids sometimes read this blog. Anyways, over the years I have formed some opinions on the dolls that are trendy and the dolls that are timeless too. Barbie never gets old. She is pretty much always a hit. Monster High is on almost every little…
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Give the Gift of Fire Safety This Christmas
Shutterstock photo by Olga Kovalenko Fire Safety It’s the busiest time of the year. As soon as the snow falls the kids start building their Christmas wish lists and everyone rushes around trying to make the season magical. It’s a given, a tradition, and a blessing too to be able to share time with family, even to be able to afford to entertain, to create moments that are memorable and last for a lifetime. Everyone should be able to share the season with their family. With so much riding on the holidays every year it’s not hard to understand how things like fire safety get overlooked. The Kitchen Scenario: Has…
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My Meaningful Christmas Gifts #WordlessWednesday With #WorldVisionGifts
This is my Wordless Wednesday for today. I hope some of you have read the posts over the last few months about meaningful Christmas gifts and the importance of choosing gifts that give back to children and families globally. I choose to support World Vision Canada in 2014, 2015 and for as long as I am able. I have seen so much good done with a simple gift from the World Vision holiday gift catalogue. I have shared many posts and tweets about this great charity. I believe wholeheartedly in the organization because I have seen the difference these meaningful Christmas gifts make to families living in poverty around the world.…
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The Cadillac of Connectivity – Netgear Router #Giveaway
Excellence in connectivity. I may have mentioned once or twice that we moved this year. Why do I mention it so much? Well because moving your entire family is a big life change and it comes with numerous other small and sometimes tedious changes that can linger, prolonging the experience for months. Don’t get me wrong, it’s all good and it’s worth it. But there are often tiny things that crop up all year after the move. I mean first there’s the unpacking of course and then the settling in and getting reoriented. The reason for my move was twofold. We had outgrown our old house and we also needed…