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The Odd Life of Timothy Green is in theatres August 15th

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Disney presents
“The Odd Life of Timothy Green”
with Ahmet Zappa, Scott Sanders and Jim Whitaker producing,
story by Ahmet Zappa and screenplay by Peter Hedges.

It’s the inspiring, magical story of a happily married couple, Cindy and Jim Green (Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton), who can’t wait to start a family but can only dream about what their child would be like. When young Timothy (CJ Adams) shows up on their doorstep one stormy night, Cindy and Jim—and their small town of Stanleyville—learn that sometimes the unexpected can bring some of life’s greatest gifts.

“The Odd Life of Timothy Green” is in theatres on August 15, 2012.

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Winx Club fairies are coming to YTV and Nickelodeon Canada this fall!

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I’m very excited to introduce you to Winx Club!!

 

Winx Club is Nickelodeon’s first girl-targeted animated show, which is a modern fantasy adventure series following six fashion forward best friends (Bloom, Stella, Flora, Musa, Tecna, Aisha) who attend the finest fairy school in all the realms, Alfea College.

Nickelodeon will partner with Rainbow to co-develop and co-produce season five of Winx Club.

Season five will launch in 2012 throughout Canada on
YTV and Nickelodeon Canada.

The girls and I got to watch two one-hour episodes based on Season Four.  The girls loved it!!

The WINX characters represent today’s modern girl. Relying on their strength, smarts and teamwork, they are heroines that girls relate to. Savvy and smart, the WINX are also playful and fashion forward. Positive messaging and girl empowerment it what the Winx Club epitomizes and their guiding principles that appeal to girls are self-expression, friendship, adventure, magic and fashion.


When trouble arises, the Winx Club transforms into beautiful fairies who use their magical powers to fight villains and save the world from evil. Each fairy has a unique power that not only helps define her as an individual, but helps her defeat villains. Also, each fairy has her own personality traits and hobbies, so there is really a character for every girl to relate to. 

 

Read more about the Winx Club here — http://www.nick.com/winx!


Fans can collect all the Winx Club fairies

Your little girls will love reliving the fairies magical adventures with the new line of dolls, playsets and role-play items.

Experience the world of Winx Club toys at www.toysrus.ca/winx

We received the complete set of WinxClub 11.5” Deluxe Believix Dolls: Bloom, Stella, Flora, Musa, Tecna, & Aisha.

The detail in these dolls is amazing!  They have eleven points of articulation, super deluxe trend-setting outfits and spectacular hinged wings showcasing beautiful Believix style.

And each doll comes with a magical membership card that unlocks exclusive content on http://www.nick.com/winx!  

The girls and I had fun going on line to play the games and learn more about the characters.    Lauren really liked the “Dress Me Up!” game where you can make your own character with makeup and fancy clothes.   Rachel like “The World of Winx” where you controlled your Winx character to complete challenges.

I can see a lot of imaginative play happening with the dolls and online!

I also have a full set of dolls to giveaway to my readers!! 

This is an advance giveaway as the dolls won’t be available until this coming fall!

To enter, us the Rafflecopter form.  Contest is open to Canadians only and will close on Thursday, July 26th at midnight EST.

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Disclosure – I was given products to review to facilitate this post. All opinions are my own.

big kids and little kids are a lot of fun! [w/ video]

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What a weekend!!  We had a tonne of fun with the “big kids” from our church and ended the weekend relaxing with our “little kids” (and there’s a video below of one of our kids).

Craig and I spent the weekend with 9 “big kids” from our church’s Senior Youth Group (grades 9-12).  It was a lot of fun!  We headed to Emerald Lake campground on Friday night. After checking in, the kids got to work setting up their tents and getting organized.  We had a late dinner followed by relaxing around the campfire.Saturday was spent at the lake.  They had huge, blow up water toys!  There were trampolines, log rolling, teeter-totter and rock-climing-type thingy (not sure what it was called).  The kids spent a lot of time trying to run from the big trampoline to the smaller one across the “moonwalk” to get to the smaller trampoline on the other side.  A few kids were successful…but we all had fun trying to get across.

Wendy jumping

wendy jumpingWe also jumped off the cliff.  That was a LOT of fun!!

Dinner was late that day with an even later campfire.  A few kids stayed up chit chatting around the fire until the wee hours of the morning.

After a few hours sleep, we got up and started packing. The sprinkles of rain kept us moving because no one wanted to be stuck outside if it decided to rain harder.  After a quick stop at Timmy’s we were on our way home.

Craig had taken some of the kids back to Oakville but I head to Niagara Falls to get our “little kids” who were very happy to see me when I got there.  Once were were home, unpacked and took the trailer back to the storage stop (we can’t keep in our drive way for the summer anymore because some crazy person in our neighbourhood called by-law and they tried to slap us with some ridiculous fine.Fortunately, our friends down the street were having their Sunday night gathering so we didn’t have to cook!  The kids played in the pool and we were able to relax!

I did hop in the pool for a bit and helped Rachel learned to dive! We started on one knee and after 3 times doing that, she tried from her feet!  Way to go Rachel!!!

It was a great weekend!!

How was your weekend?? 

and come September I will remember our camping days and friendships true.

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If you didn’t go to summer camp, or maybe specifically Girl Guide camp, you might not know that the title of this blog is a line from a camp song.

Linger is one of the songs that we would sing at the end of a campfire, especially on the last campfire of camp.

 
Linger
Mm-mm, I want to linger 
Mm-mm, a little longer 
Mm-mm, a little longer here with you. 
 
Mm-mm, it’s such a perfect night 
 Mm-mm, it doesn’t seem quite right 
Mm-mm, that this should be my last with you. 
 
Mm-mm, and come September 
Mm-mm, I will remember 
Mm-mm, our camping days and friendships true. 
 
Mm-mm, and as the years go by 
Mm-mm, I’ll think of you and sigh 
Mm-mm, this is good-night and not good-bye 
Mm-mm.
 
Camp songs hold so many memories for me.  We sang them while on a 10-day canoe trip through Temagami or while doing chores on site.
 
Last weekend I spent time with my mom and the girls camping.  One night sitting around the campfire, Rachel started singing the songs she learned when we were up at Muskoka Woods for the weekend a few weeks ago.  This led into me singing songs that I could remember from when I went to camp.
 
The memories started flooding back… singing “Keep on the Sunny Side” while paddling a canoe through Algonquin park on a 10-day canoe trip. Rachel’s favourite from our Muskoka Woods trip was “The Moose Song“.  She and her new friends got to sing it during campfire.  It’s nice to know that when she goes to camp this summer she’ll know a few songs but she will learn so many new ones.

I’m so excited for her! Rachel is going to get to do a lot of new things at camp this summer…more than just learn new songs.

On OurKids.net there is a nice article about singer-songwriter Amy Sky (one of my favourite artists) where she talks about her time at summer camp:

“Camp broadens your horizons, because you meet people from all over,” says Sky. “And it increases your confidence since you get positive feedback just for trying something new.”

And when she comes home from camp, she’ll have a whole new list of songs to sing, and a lot of memories to go with them.

Do you have a favourite camp song? What does it remind you of?

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