First off I want to say that I was thrilled when Li'l Gourmet (Baby Gourmet) contacted us for another review! My kids were so excited when they seen the new products arrive. As you may remember I did a review for them back in March of this year, and my kids loved them. They were very eager to taste the new creations that Baby Gourmet supplied. So lets dive in! We received 3 different flavours: OrangoBango, BeetBerry and SquabbleBerry. The first thing that got us … [Read more...]
Li’l Gourmet Squoosh – Raising the Bar
Whole Wheat Pumpkin Spice Muffins
I've been baking a lot with pumpkin this fall, it kind of got out of hand. It started with some pumpkin waffles and turned into an attempt to find the best pumpkin chocolate chip cookie recipe around and then with just one cup of pumpkin left over, I quickly whipped up a batch of some tasty whole wheat pumpkin muffins. They went a little like this Whole Wheat Pumpkin Spice Muffins We gobbled these tasty pumpkin muffins … [Read more...]
Wrap your gifts with flair!
I actually remember the day my mother in law told me she was really disappointed that gift bags were taking off in popularity. While they were super convenient and made wrapping a breeze in mere seconds, she felt like gift wrapping had lost it's personal touch and she was right. Gone were the pretty packages with gift wrapped picked out just for you with a matching bow on top, the generic gift bag and plain tissue was too easy to pass up. Gift wrapping is a little bit of an art I supposed, … [Read more...]
Boston Pizza Kids Cards
My husband and I had three babies in three years, I'm not going to lie, our days were pretty rough. We kind of ceased all activity when #3 was born and pretty much wrote off ever going to a restaurant ever again. But the boys grew and slowly, yet surely, our confidence did too. Eventually we got the nerve to head out in public with the kids in tow and decided to try our hand at an actual meal in a real restaurant. We choose Boston Pizza, for it's family friendly atmosphere and I'm happy to … [Read more...]
Building with the Boys ~ KRE-O Transformers: Age of Extinction #BuildKREO
My oldest son started building with brick sets when he was pretty young, today at age 8, we consider him a master builder! Okay, I might be a bit biased being his mom and all, but I'm telling you this kid can build! He is so good at following the instructions (better than me that's for sure) and he can snap together a set in record time. There are times he decides to use his imagination and create his own sets and there are times when he loves to create the themed sets and dive into those … [Read more...]
Star Wars Reads Day is coming!
The third annual Star Wars Reads Day is coming this Saturday! On October 11, 2014 fans across the globe will celebrate their passion for Star Wars and Reading! As a mom to boys, I love any initiative to get the boys noses into books and DK Canada makes it incredibly easy with amazing reads all about Star Wars! DK Canada has over 80 books dedicated to Star Wars! From Sticker Books to leveled readers to hard cover encyclopedia's they have everything you ever wanted to know and learn about … [Read more...]