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Book: Beautiful Blue Eyes

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Beautiful Blue Eyes by Marianne Richmond (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky; ISBN: 978-1-4022-5639-4; April 2011), which is a follow-up to Beautiful Brown Eyes is a very special book.“I watched, and I waitedas your eyes chose their hue,deciding in time on their beautiful blue. Blue as a butterflyor the sparkling sea.Blue as the bluebirdwho sings in her tree.” Every child is unique and this book celebrates that fact. The book is written from a parent’s perspective about how a child’s eyes tell us so much about them. This is a beautiful book for a parent to share with their child. The illustrations in this … Continue reading →

Cookbook: Company’s Coming – Cookies (#CanadianCookies)

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This post has been written as part of #CanadianCookies Blog Event. To find out more about the event, please click on the button below. You can even link up your favourite recipes! We were fortunate enough to review the Cookbook called Company’s ComingCookies. This book is written by Jean Pare and is a National Bestseller. There are so many cookie recipes in this cookbook. The recipes include your typical classics like Chocolate Chip Cookies, Gingersnaps and Snickerdoodles. There are also many fun and different recipes to try out like Fruit Cocktail Cookies, Zucchini Drops and Boiled Chocolate Cookies. There is … Continue reading →

Real Food Moms (REVIEW)

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Real Food Moms is a website for families providing information (“real food answers”) for busy families. Jeannette Lee Bessinger and Tracee Yablon-Brenner, the website owners and the authors of two amazing books have quite a bit of combined experience. Their books are called Simple Food for Busy Families – The Whole Life Nutrition Approach and Great Expectations: Best Food for Your Baby and Toddler – From First Foods to Meals Your Child Will Love. Great Expectations: Best Food for Your Baby and Toddler covers all aspects of feeding a baby from birth through age three—from breastfeeding through toddler food preparation. … Continue reading →

Picture It Books – Picture Books Where Your Child is the Illustrator!

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My daughter and I have fallen in love with Picture It Picture Books! These books are story books that have all of the words, but the pages are blank above the text, all ready for a child’s creativity and imagination. For a child who loves to draw, these books will help their drawings come alive. My daughter has now illustrated a couple of these books and it is so amazing to see how proud she is that she is in fact the illustrator of a book. She will go an select a story to be read to her at bedtime … Continue reading →

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for the Young at Heart (REVIEW)

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“Go 60” is what I will remember from the book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for the Young at Heart: 101 Stories of Inspiration, Humor, and Wisdom about Life at a Certain Age. The book opens up with a story from a woman who is turning 60 and has challenged herself to do 60 new things the year she turned 60. This short story alone filled me with inspiration! I believe that this book would make a perfect gift for someone’s birthday (perhaps a 60th birthday). I’ve always been a big fan of the Chicken Soup for the Soul … Continue reading →

MomPact: REVIEW and GIVEAWAY of Twooth Timer

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Welcome to stop #82 in the MomPact Blog Hop! Mompact: Moms Supporting Moms What is MomPact? MomPact has is launching on September 12, 2011 and to start it all off, I am participating in a #MomPact Blog Hop Event involving 120 other blogs and some AMAZING giveaways! Mompact is about moms supporting moms in business – from part-time work-at-home opportunities to blogging, to inventing and creating retail empires. From MomPact:“Let’s face it, moms are rocking the economy. From supplementing the family’s income to inventing new products and building large corporations, moms are having an impact in business. Mompact is a … Continue reading →

My Dad, My Hero by Ethan Long (BOOK REVIEW)

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Children look up to their parents, it is a fact of life. This is why they say that modeling for our children is so very important! Ethan Long writes an adorable book called My Dad, My Hero that celebrates the special bond that a Dad has with his child. I love how this book makes me giggle due to the silly ideas and I especially love the adorable comic illustrations that are both engaging and colourful. It is a perfect book to give a Dad on their birthday, Christmas and especially Father’s Day. My Dad, My Hero is a book … Continue reading →

Go, Baby, Go! by Marilyn Janovitz (BOOK REVIEW)

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Author, Marilyn Janovitz has created a follow up book to Baby, Baby, Baby! Go, Baby, Go! encourages participation between the baby and the reader using actions such as popping bubbles, playing with blocks and munching on snacks. The quick pace of this book along with the rhyming and word repetition make it a perfect addition to baby’s book collection. The bright, cheerful illustrations are fun and eye catching, which are also perfect for grabbing a young child’s attention. Go Baby Go! is a cute, playful, humorous book. Board books are key for young babies and young children who are first … Continue reading →

What to Expect The First Year (REVIEW and GIVEAWAY)

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You can read this review, but the giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to tumyiix and samorjj! I received a copy of What to Expect The Toddler Years which is now being phased out by What to Expect The First Year by Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg and Sandee Hathaway and What to Expect the Second Year. As I mentioned in my review of What to Expect When You’re Expecting, this is a book series that I highly recommend! These books answer what I want to say is “almost every question a parent will have”, but I’m sure that is not quite … Continue reading →