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My Monopoly Game: New Personalized Take on Classic Board Game
My daughter Ainsley is a huge fan of Monopoly Junior and the new Monopoly card game we got this summer as well. I have many fond memories of playing Monopoly as a child with my Mom and brother. We were cut throat game players in the 80s and 90s and we were nothing if not extremely competitive. So Monopoly, in any form, makes me slightly nostalgic. This past month we received My Monopoly from Hasbro. We just started playing it this week. My Monopoly is completely fun, of course, as all Monopoly games are, but personalized Monopoly means you can place your own photos on the tokens and you can…
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Kellogg’s New Products #Giveaway #KelloggCAInnovations
Breakfast is key to the start of the day. It is crucial to start every morning on the right foot, and around here Kellogg’s cereal is a big part of that. Rice Krispies are a staple here so when I spied the new Rice Krispies Multi-Grain Shapes Cereal and other Kellogg’s New Products I was giddy. Rice Krispies cereal is the one I bake with and the one I reach for as an adult because I know it works for me. I have loved the taste of it since I was a kid. Happily I can report that Rice Krispies Multi-Grain Shapes Cereal is delicious. It’s like they’ve taken my Rice…
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Back to School Girls #TMMBTS #WordlessWednesday
It’s Back to School time. We had a good summer filled with travel and family and pool parties too. How about you?
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Parkbridge Resorts Lakes of Wasaga Stay
I am a cottage girl. I have been doing that from the time I was born actually. I don’t think we have ever missed a year. So, cottage season is a big deal here. We are renters. Every single year. We have talked, but never seriously, about buying a cottage. Buying a cottage costs a lot of money and really, how long would we use it? Would we do well with all that upkeep? Would we travel each weekend in the summer to the cottage 3-4 hours away just to cut the lawn? I am not convinced. We love travel and we try to do so affordably every time we…
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5 Steps: How to Transition From Home-Schooling to Public Schooling
For some home-schooled children, the comfort and freedom of the home environment makes the idea of joining a public or a private school seem unimpressive at best. However, if parents begin to prepare them for the transition early enough, it goes a long way to allay apprehension. Both schooling methods have had their fair share of fierce and diverse critical views, but a change of heart is inevitable when such a transition is imminent. The challenges related to both schooling methods are different for each family, but there are a few ways to help ease the transition. Here are 5 steps that will help your child make the move from…
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Reflections of Summer 2014 #KinderMom
How do you capture a summer? Is it a series of snapshots on an iPhone? An entire deck of tiny Instax mini photo cards tucked into the border of a child’s bedroom vanity mirror, with bright red hearts and flowers, decorating the names scrawled on the border? How do you measure July and August? Is it the inches your children grow when they are free to imagine, run, travel, swim and draw without limitation of time or bells? Is it the height of the green grass on your front lawn, the length of the ivy trailing down the side of the house? The hundreds of bike rides? The yawning afternoons…
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GoGo squeeZ #BTS Healthy Snacks #Giveaway
As school and fall activities get back under way, easy healthy snacks are extremely important. They are time savers. They can be the things the kids reach for first when we are racing around from school to theatre to swimming and back again. GoGo squeeZ is convenient and tasty. We have been fans forever, so when we found these new flavours we wanted to share them with readers too. GoGo squeeZ fruit snacks come in eight flavours including: the original tasty Apple flavour and they are now also in Apple-Grape and Apple-Pear, two new flavours that are delicious. These never last long here. They are mess free and environmentally friendly.…
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Five Children’s Fall Essentials
This is a post by My Contributor Bonnie Way, mom of three girls under six years old, living in BC. September can feel more like a new year than January, as a friend of mine recently mentioned. Summer is over and for many kids (and even parents!), school is starting again. It is a good time to catch sales on new clothes, school supplies, and other fall essentials. Here is what Iím making sure I have on hand as this new season begins. 1. Cups and bowls and spoons. As kids start preschool and school, it seems like there are never enough eating utensils in the house. I like the…
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Five Back to School Necessities for Tweens #TMMBTS
Zwipes It’s so close to the first day of school I can almost hear the ringing of the bell from here. Oh wait, maybe that’s the ringing in my ears from the horrific screams of my children wanting to stay home a bit longer. In any case, school is so much sweeter when you start a new grade with the right tools. Lucky for you, I can tell you what they are. Five Back to School Necessities 1. Zwipes: Hello, how perfect is that for my teen? She can customize with accompanying pen and doodle how she wants. This binder is one I have had my eye on for so…
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Save Time and Money with OxiClean Back to School #giveaway
Regardless of the time of year, nobody likes doing laundry. Laundry is a massive time suck. Between getting the kids to and from school, work and then taxiing everyone to various after school activities life seems busier than ever in September. Who has time to spend washing and drying the endless mounds of clothing? OxiClean to the rescue. Just in time for back to school OxiClean has compiled some back to school ABCS of Laundering to help. So take a moment to read the tip sheet and you can win a giveaway package worth $30. Several bloggers are also taking a moment this summer to nominate someone they know for…