Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon for the Nintendo 3DS

May 6, 2016 by Leave a Comment

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The Pokemon games have been known the world around for their fun role playing Pokemon collecting fun.  Where the action is more directed via third person through a trainer.  There are a series of RPG Pokemon games where you play not the human trainer, but a Pokemon exploring a dungeon filled with other Pokemon to battle, adventures to have, and lots of action and treasures.  This game is called Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and the most recent game in the series is Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon for the Nintendo 3DS.

In this game you pick your character as well as your “friend” Pokemon, and are transformed into a child’s Pokemon. You must explore dungeons to help solve a mystery which is effecting Pokemon by turning them to stone.

Throughout Mystery Dungeon, it is possible to meet all 720 known Pokemon (even rare and mega evolved Pokemon) with whom you can befriend and who can help you in battle.  There also many ways in to interact with this game as well, Wonder Mail players can receive special items via code of QR codes.  Street Pass is also available in Mystery Dungeon, where when you pass another player their Pokemon or assist in the next adventure.  If all your Pokemon faint, it is also possible to be revived to a local player as well, who will bring you back to life without the loss of any items collected.  These features bring a fun multiplayer aspect to the game which is both highly accessible and easy to use.

What we enjoyed most about this game is the ability to play as some of our favorite Pokemon, including Pikachu and Squirtle.

Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon for the Nintendo 3DS is available now for $39.99 in the e Shop as well is at retailers everywhere.

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#CuriousGeorgeonHulu Twit­ter Party

April 28, 2016 by Leave a Comment
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Curious George on Hulu Twitter Party 4-28-16 at 9p ET bit.ly/cgonhulursvp

 

Join Blog­gin Mamas & Hulu as we host the #CuriousGeorgeonHulu Twit­ter Party on Thursday, 4–28–16 at 9p EST/6pm PST! We’ll be chat­ting about Curious George, now streaming on Hulu.

 

Date: Thursday, April 28th, 2016
Time: 9:00–10:00pm EST / 6:00–7:00pm PST
Hash­tag: #CuriousGeorgeonHulu
Pre­sented by: @hulu and @BlogginMamas
Mod­er­a­tors: Eng­lish– @HeLoEnterprises Span­ish– @BBabushka

 

About Hulu & Curious George

 

Beginning March 31st, Hulu became the exclusive subscription streaming home to all nine seasons – over 100 episodes – of CURIOUS GEORGE® TV series, which is produced by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment’s production arm, Universal 1440 Entertainment. Hulu is also the U.S. premiere home to new seasons of the series over the coming years. In addition, television specials including Curious George: Swings Into Spring, Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest and Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas, along with the feature-length originals Curious George: Follow That Monkey, Curious George: Back To The Jungle and future direct-to-TV specials are available to stream exclusively on Hulu.
Hulu is a premium streaming TV destination that offers hundreds of thousands of hours of the best of current season programming, premium original content, films and full seasons of hit series to subscribers with limited commercials for $7.99 per month or commercial free for $11.99 per month. Hulu is the only streaming subscription service that offers current season content from 5 of the 6 largest U.S. broadcast networks. Since its launch in 2008, Hulu has been at the forefront of entertainment and technology and continues to redefine TV by connecting viewers with the stories they love.

 

CURIOUS GEORGE® the television series is designed to inspire kids to explore science, math and engineering in the world around them in a fun and entertaining way. Based on the best-selling Curious George books by Margret and H.A. Rey, the series expands George’s world to include a host of colorful characters and original locales, while maintaining the charm of the beloved books. Each half-hour episode includes two animated stories followed by short live-action pieces showing real kids who are investigating the ideas that George introduces in his stories. The series encourages inquiry and curiosity, promotes hands-on exploration and shows parents and caregivers how to support children’s science- and math-related play. All nine seasons of the CURIOUS GEORGE® television series are a production of Imagine Entertainment, WGBH Boston, and Universal 1440 Entertainment, LLC.

 

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Dur­ing the Twit­ter Party there will be a chance to win one of the fol­low­ing prizes by answer­ing var­i­ous ques­tions about Hulu and Curious George. Win­ners will be selected at ran­dom from all eli­gi­ble entries.

 

Prizes

 

Three (3) prize packs, each includ­ing a Hulu commercial-free 1-year subscription + Curious George plush (ARV $169)

 

First Prize

 

One (1) prize pack, includ­ing one (1) Roku 4 Streaming Media Player + Hulu commercial-free 1-year subscription + Curious George plush (ARV$298)

 

Grand Prize

 

One (1) prize pack, includ­ing one (1) Apple TV (4th generation) + Hulu commercial-free 1-year subscription + Curious George plush (ARV $368)

 

RSVP Prize(s)

 

Five (5) prize packs, including a Hulu commercial-free 6 month subscription + Curious George plush (ARV $97)

 

RSVP Below!!

Terms and Con­di­tions

 

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY. A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING.
By RSVP’ing to this event and uti­liz­ing the #CuriousGeorgeonHulu hash­tag, the atten­dees acknowl­edge hav­ing read and agreed to these terms and con­di­tions.
Twit­ter Party Prize Give­away begins April 28, 2016 at 9:00 pm ET and ends no later than April 28th, 2016 at 10:30pm ET (the “Twit­ter Chat Entry Period”). Entrants enter via fol­low­ing @hulu, @HeLoEnterprises & @BlogginMamas, and post­ing a tweet with the #CuriousGeorgeonHulu and #Sweeps hash­tags dur­ing the Twit­ter Chat Entry Period. Five (5) Win­ners will be drawn ran­domly by random.org at approx­i­mately 12 minute inter­vals dur­ing the Twit­ter Party Entry Period. Five (5) Win­ners will be drawn ran­domly via random.org from the event RSVP’s on the Mr. Linky wid­get.
Prizes include:
Three (3) prize packs, each includ­ing one (1) Hulu commercial-free 1-year subscription and one (1) Curious George plush. Total approx­i­mate retail value (“ARV”) $169. One (1) prize pack to be awarded to each of three (3) winners.
One (1) First Prize pack, includ­ing one (1) Roku 4 Streaming Media Player, one (1) Hulu commercial-free 1-year subscription, and one (1) Curious George plush. Total approx­i­mate retail value (“ARV”) $298, for one (1) win­ner.
One (1) Grand Prize pack, includ­ing one (1) Apple TV (4th generation), one (1) Hulu commercial-free 1-year subscription, and one (1) Curious George plus. Total approx­i­mate retail value (“ARV”) $368, for one (1) win­ner.
Five (5) RSVP Prize packs, each includ­ing one (1) Hulu commercial-free 6-month subscription, and one (1) Curious George plush. Total approx­i­mate retail value (“ARV”) $97. One (1) prize pack to be awarded to each of five (5) winners who RSVP’s via the Mr. Linky wid­get.

 

Each win­ner receives one (1) prize pack. Entrants who fail to com­plete said actions will be dis­qual­i­fied and an alter­nate win­ner will be selected from all entrants who entered dur­ing the Twit­ter Party Entry Period. Win­ners will be noti­fied via DM (Direct Mes­sage) on Twit­ter with a request for an email address to send prize claim infor­ma­tion. Win­ners will have 48 hours to reply to the DM with a valid email address. Win­ners will have an addi­tional 48 hours from when prize claim infor­ma­tion is sent, to claim their prize and pro­vide ship­ping info, or a an alter­nate win­ner will be selected from amongst all entries received dur­ing the Twit­ter Party Entry Period. All prizes will be awarded pro­vided they are validly claimed by May 4th at 11:59AM EST.

 

Entrants agree to release and hold harm­less the Blog­gin’ Mamas, Heather Lopez Enter­prises, LLC, Twit­ter, Hulu, LLC and any other orga­ni­za­tions respon­si­ble for spon­sor­ing, ful­fill­ing, admin­is­ter­ing, adver­tis­ing or pro­mot­ing this give­away, and their respec­tive par­ent, sub­sidiaries, and affil­i­ates and each of their respec­tive offi­cers, direc­tors, mem­bers, employ­ees, agents and sub­con­trac­tors (col­lec­tively the “Released Par­ties”) from and against any and all claims, expenses, and lia­bil­ity, includ­ing but not lim­ited to neg­li­gence and dam­ages of any kind to per­sons and prop­erty, includ­ing but not lim­ited to inva­sion of pri­vacy (under appro­pri­a­tion, intru­sion, pub­lic dis­clo­sure of pri­vate facts, false light in the pub­lic eye or other legal the­ory), defama­tion, slan­der, libel, vio­la­tion of right of pub­lic­ity, infringe­ment of trade­mark, copy­right or other intel­lec­tual prop­erty rights, prop­erty dam­age, or death or per­sonal injury aris­ing out of or relat­ing to a participant’s entry, cre­ation of an entry or sub­mis­sion of an entry, par­tic­i­pa­tion in this give­away, accep­tance or use or mis­use of prize. Entrant agrees to indem­nify, defend and hold harm­less the Released Par­ties from and against any and all claims, expenses, and lia­bil­i­ties (includ­ing rea­son­able attorney’s fees) aris­ing out of or relat­ing to an entrant’s par­tic­i­pa­tion in this give­away and/or entrant’s accep­tance, use or mis­use of prize, includ­ing, with­out lim­i­ta­tion, lia­bil­ity for per­sonal injury, dam­age, or loss.
The Released Par­ties make no war­ranties, and hereby dis­claims any and all war­ranties, express or implied, con­cern­ing any prize fur­nished in con­nec­tion with the give­away.

 

WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING,SUCH PRIZES ARE PROVIDED“AS IS”WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AND THE RELEASED PARTIES HERE BY DISCLAIM ALL SUCH WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT ABILITY,FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND/OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

 

Dis­clo­sure: Blog­gin’ Mamas is man­ag­ing this Twit­ter Party. Indi­vid­ual co-hosts are receiv­ing com­pen­sa­tion for their par­tic­i­pa­tion. Sponsor will provide the prizes and Bloggin’ Mamas will be shipping the prizes to the individual winners.

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Amazing, Must Have Products for Moms from Palmers

April 16, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Disclosure- I received the below in order to facilitate this review.  All opinions are my own and honest. For more, see “I Disclose”

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As I’m sure that you all know by now, I am expecting my third child. Stretch marks can be a very scary reality with pregnancies, but there are some great products on the market that are made to help your body out. These great products from Palmers are a great place to turn when you are expecting or just had a child.

About Palmers:

E.T. Browne Drug Company is one of the longest standing proprietors of skin and hair care products in the United States. The company has been family owned since the middle of the nineteenth century and has been under the current ownership since 19971. E.T. Browne Drug Company has been headquartered in New Jersey for over 50 years.

Under the current ownership, the revolutionary brand Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Formula was created and introduced to the world. Since that Palmer’s has expanded on its vast knowledge and heritage, developing brand ranges such as Skin Success, Shea Butter Formula, Olive Butter Formula, Coconut Oil Formula, Olive Oil Formula, and Hair Success. These brands give E.T. Browne a strong presence in important market segments such as skin care, pregnancy, skin fade care, and hair care. Palmer’s has a global presence; available in over 80 countries offering the #1 Cocoa Butter brand in the world. This unique heritage and commitment to quality has stood the test of time, making Palmer’s a trusted household name, used by families for generations.

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About the Products:

Spray Lotion for Stretch Marks: You can now spray and sooth itchy, stretching skin with pure Cocoa Butte, Vitamin E, Soy Lechithin, and Bio C-Elaste. Bio C-Elaste helps it to absorb quickly into skin while providing 24 hour stretch mark fighting moisture. This spray targets hard to reach stretch mark prone areas, provides deep moisture, soothes dry itchy skin and supports skin elasticity in a non-greasy, easy spray application.

Massage Cream for Stretch Marks: This great product helps reduce the appearance of stretch marks with a special blend of pure Cocoa Butter, Vitamin E, Shea Butter and Bio C-Elaste. This cream helps improve elasticity and suppleness of stretching skin during and after pregnancy. This is ideal for stretch mark prone areas such as tummy, hips, thighs, and bust. This cream is also recommended for stretch marks associated with weight fluctuations.

Massage Lotion for stretch Marks: This Massage Lotion helps reduce the appearance of stretch marks with a special blend of Cocoa Butter, Vitamin E, Shea Butter and Bio C-Elaste. This wonderful non-greasy, all over body lotion helps improve elasticity and suppleness of stretching skin during and after pregnancy. Also recommended for stretch marks associated with weight fluctuations.

Skin Therapy Oil: This great product is an advanced multi-purpose skin perfection product that can be used all over the body. This preservative-free, lightweight formula contains an exclusive blend of key ingredients formulated to help improve the appearance of scars, stretch marks, dry damaged skin, uneven skin tone, aging skin, and fine lines and wrinkles. Skin looks and feels instantly soft and smooth with this unique, non-greasy, non-staining formula.

Tummy Butter for Stretch Marks: This product with the Bio C-Elaste is widely recommended for stretch marks during and after pregnancy and weight loss. The addition of soothing Lavender makes Tummy Butter a relaxing nighttime treatment.

Baby Wash: You can cleanse and soften baby from head to toe with Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Formula Baby Wash. This ultra-calming baby wash combines skin comforting natural butters, Cocoa Butter and Shea Butter, with Vitamin E and relaxing Lavender and Chamomille to sooth baby’s skin. This mild formula helps soften and protect, even dry and sensitive skin without harsh detergents.

Nursing Butter: This is an easy-to-apply combination of pure Cocoa Butter and Pro-Vitamin B5 in a soothing emollient base, helps relieve sore, cracked nipples associated with breastfeeding. Also may be used pre-natally to condition nipples for breast feeding.

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My Thoughts:

I have already given each of the products a try other than the Baby Wash and the Nursing Butter. I am in love. I feel them easing the itchiness of the stretching skin that I have on my tummy at this point. I also love that my skin always feels so super moisturized. I plan on continuing to use this throughout the rest of my pregnancy as well as in the weeks and months after delivery as my body is getting back to what it previously was :). If you are pregnant or just had a child, I know that this product would be absolutely amazing for you to use.

Purchase:

If you are interested in purchasing many of the products that are mentioned in this post, head on over to Palmers and order the ones that are right for your body.

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The Best Subscription-Based Gifts for Men: Give the Gifts that Keep on Giving!

March 16, 2016 by 1 Comment

The subscription-based shopping craze is in full swing, and makes it easy for you to give a gift to the man in your life that literally keeps on giving. From razors and undies to sock subscriptions and specialized subscriptions for gamers, pet lovers, and tie enthusiasts, you’ll be hard-pressed to find an item out there that isn’t represented by a company that offers subscriptions. Here are a few top favorites that have garnered the attention of consumers from every walk of life.

Men’s Yoga Subscriptions: Get the Gear and Instructional Videos

For many, it is thought that the yoga trend is only for the ladies. But if you’ve been to a yoga studio anytime in the last 10 years or so, you know the numbers of men signing up for classes has grown tremendously. With this in mind, a few yoga companies have created subscriptions to help guys out. Broga Yoga offers online streaming yoga videos, yoga certification, and event listings. Sign up your shy guy for just $12 per month, and the first 30 days are free! Sadly, there aren’t any men’s clothing or sock subscriptions for yoga, but you can get great men’s yoga clothes from Spiritual Gangster to get started, and you can gift your guy a Yogi Surprise monthly subscription box for less than $40 a month. These tidy little boxes contain awesome products, from organic foods and yoga gloves to body oils and more.

Men’s Sock Subscriptions: The One Thing They Will Never Get Themselves

It’s a known fact that almost all men will wear their socks until they look like they’ve been around since the Civil War. To end this sad display of holey (and unholy) socks in sad disrepair, sign up your brother, dad, boyfriend, husband, or buddy for sock subscriptions from Nice Laundry. If you know him well, then you’ll know whether the lucky recipient of your Nice Laundry socks should be calf socks or no-show socks, as this online subscription-based sock shop offers both in tons of vivid colors, fun prints, modernized takes on classic argyle, and much more. Your guy will receive a sock drawer makeover with six pairs you’ve chosen for him plus an additional seventh pair for free every quarter of the year for just $49 each quarter. These high-quality socks offer much more than eye-pleasing prints — Nice Laundry is known for crafting comfy, moisture-wicking socks that fit well and stay put on the foot, right where they should be.

Glasses and Sunglasses: Endless Eyewear from DITTO

For $24 per month for nonprescription and only $34 per month for prescription glasses, DITTO allows its users to swap out glasses from a huge inventory anytime they want to. When a pair arrives that’s been picked online, wear them for a week, a couple weeks, or longer, and send them back in to receive the next pair you’ve picked in your glasses subscription. This is a great way for guys to change up their look with very little effort — and when given as a gift, swapping with as much frequency as he likes is fun for free! DITTO has thousands of frames from hundreds of brands to choose from

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Twitter Party with #BedtimeBattle 2/23 at 8 pm EST

February 22, 2016 by Leave a Comment

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February is National Children’s Dental Health Month! I am sure we have all been there at one point or another. Struggling to get our little ones to brush their teeth before bed! But we all know just how important it is to make sure we get that teeth time in! All young children need help with brushing from an adult to make sure a good job is done.

  • As soon as baby is born, you can start good oral health practices. If possible, use a soft washcloth to wipe your baby’s gums after feedings. Remember not to put babies to bed with a bottle filled with milk. And, when it is time to introduce solids, choose healthy foods to reduce the risk of tooth decay.
  • For children under age 3: As soon as you see a tooth in your baby’s mouth you can start to BRUSH! Use a smear (grain of rice) of toothpaste with fluoride 2 times per day.
  • For children ages 3–6: Use a pea-sized amount of fluoride toothpaste. It is OK to let them practice with the brush, but you get your turn too.


On Tuesday, February 23rd, the Ad Council’s Kids’ Healthy Mouths campaign will hold a Twitter chat to celebrate National Children’s Dental Health Month with cohosts Momfluential, HaveSippy and Teeth Fairies and we would love for you to join us!

The chat will focus on how parents can win the #BedtimeBattle with the 3 Bs: Brush, Book, Bed. Tips will be shared for structuring children’s nighttime routines in a healthy way (including brushing for 2 minutes) that helps them get to sleep.

Together, we can win the #BedtimeBattle for healthier children and happier parents – and you might even win prizes from Teeth Fairies. It’s a win/win.

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Big Apple Circus Returns New Jersey with The Grand Tour

February 8, 2016 by Leave a Comment
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Big Apple Circus returns to Bridgewater, New Jersey for the company’s 38th season with the New Jersey Premiere of The GrandTour! Tickets start at $25, and the show runs from February 12 – March 13, 2016 under the Big Top at TD Bank Ballpark, 1 Patriots Park (GPS: 860 East Main Street) Bridgewater, NJ. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.bigapplecircus.org.
The Grand Tour transports audiences to the Roaring 1920s, the advent of the modern travel era, when the most adventuresome began touring the world in ships, planes, trains, and automobiles. With every seat less than 50 feet from the stage, audiences will be awed by the world-class entertainers as they perform breathtaking acts from the four corners of the globe. Clowns, jugglers, acrobats, and aerialists from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America appear with ponies, puppies and more; the troupe sets off on a whirlwind adventure, accompanied by the live, seven-piece Big Apple Circus Band at each performance.
“The Grand Tour is a first-class jaunt.” – The New York Times
“A class act … Sophisticated and beautiful.” – The Village Voice
“Language can’t do justice to the visual and kinetic thrills of the Big Apple Circus. Just go!”
– Time Out New York
“Polished and fun.” – Daily News
“The Finest Up-Close Circus in America.” – Variety
“America’s Best Circus for Children.” – Parents Magazine
Four-time Big Apple Circus ringmaster John Kennedy Kane returns to introduce a variety of stunning performers: clowns Joel Jeske and Brent McBeth; third-generation circus animal trainer Jenny Vidbel with her pony and dog acts; aerialist Sergey Akimov; international juggling sensation AlexanderKoblikov; ninth-generation circus performer Chiara Anastasini with hula hoops; the Dominguez Brothers defying the law of gravity with their thrill-filled act featuring the Wheel of Wonder; Chinese hand balancers The Energy Trio; the African acrobatic troupe Zuma Zuma; and the Dosov Troupe soaring on the teeterboard.
The Grand Tour, conceived and created by Joel Jeske, is directed by Mark Lonergan (artistic director of Parallel Exit, the three-time Drama Desk Award-nominated physical theater company) with choreographer and associate director Antoinette DiPietropolo. Musical direction by Rob Slowik, with clown material created and directed by Joel Jeske. Set and lighting design by Maruti Evans, costume design by Oana Botez, and props design by Katie Fleming.
The company will present two special performances:
Big Apple Circus Embraces Autism will take place on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 11am. Big Apple Circus has joined with world-renowned Autism Spectrum Disorders experts to adapt The Grand Tour for families with members on the spectrum and create a joyful experience for all. The adapted show includes the same world-class artistry as the full performance with a shorter running time, adjusted lights and sound, a calming center, pictorial social narratives, and specially trained staff and volunteers to assure a memorable event for everyone! All tickets to this special performance, a 75-minute abbreviated show, are half price ($12.50-$37.50).
The Grand Tour Family Fun Dayperformance will take place on Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 4:30pm. Join Big Apple Circus for Family Fun Daywith interactive entertainment by our Clown Doctors, a full performance of The Grand Tour, followed by dessert in the Ring with the performers. Plus free popcorn for all and free goody bags for the kids! Tickets start at $30. All proceeds support Big Apple Circus Clown Care®in New Jersey.
As a nonprofit performing arts institution, the Big Apple Circus is committed not only to thrilling audiences in the ring, but also to bringing the joy and wonder of circus into the community. Big Apple Circus creates direct, shared connections inside its one-ring Big Top AND in hospitals, nursing homes, and schools, in its New York City home and in cities across America.
“These performers, many from circus dynasties, preserve an important tradition, reinforced by the nonprofit Big Apple Circus’s commendable community-service activities, notably the
Clown Care program, which entertains hospitalized children. This company … doesn’t only have awe-inspiring acrobatic skills; it has a lot of heart, too.”
– The New York Times, 2014 Critics’ Pick
Big Apple Circus Clown Care® brings the joy of classical circus to hospitalized children at 15 leading pediatric facilities across the United States. Performers collaborate with doctors and staff to design a program to fit the needs of each hospital. Members of the Clown Care team bring the healing power of humor to children with acute and chronic illnesses, visiting nearly 225,000 young patients every year.
Big Apple Circus offers a specially adapted performance of the show, Circus of the Senses, for children and adults with vision or hearing impairments and/or other disabilities. American Sign Language interpreters are positioned in spotlights throughout the tent, and wireless audio headsets transmit a live audio play-by-play description of the action in the ring. Braille or large-print descriptive programs are available for audience members. A “touch session” after the show offers a unique opportunity for pre-selected groups of visually impaired children to go into the ring to meet the artists and literally feel a clown nose, a juggler’s clubs, or the silky coat of a performing dog. Big Apple Circus Embraces Autism provides performances with modified lighting and sound as well as a staffed calming center, to meet the needs of children on the autism spectrum. Inclusion is a core value at Big Apple Circus, which is dedicated to delivering the finest circus entertainment to everyone, regardless of physical or cognitive ability, or economic circumstance.
Circus for All! distributes free and subsidized tickets to schools and nonprofit organizations serving low-income children and families, enabling many of them to experience the excitement and wonder of the circus for the very first time.
Circus After School teaches kids life skills such as teamwork, responsible risk-taking, and perseverance, through a structured program of learning and performing circus arts.
About Big Apple Circus
(Will Maitland Weiss, Executive Director; Guillaume Dufresnoy, Artistic Director)
Conceived and founded by Paul Binder and Michael Christensen to be a leading presenter of live family entertainment and a nonprofit performing arts institution, our nation-wide performances and community programs have made our 38-year history far-reaching and full. It all began in 1974, when American entertainers Binder and Christensen became juggling partners and took to the street corners of Europe. Their comedic juggling act was a hit, and they soon found themselves on the stage of the prestigious Nouveau Cirque de Paris. They returned home to America in 1976 with a vision: to entertain and improve the lives of millions of American children and families. One year later, they found a site for the first tent-raising in Battery Park, New York, and went on to create the award-winning, nonprofit Big Apple Circus. For more information, visit www.bigapplecircus.org.
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Kidz Bop 31- Great CD for kids

January 29, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Disclosure- I received the below in order to facilitate this review.  All opinions are my own and honest. For more, see “I Disclose”.

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As you all know by now I am an absolute huge fan of the Kidz Bop CD’s. Between car rides with my children and afternoon art classes with my students I am always jamming away to some awesome music.

About Kidz Bop 31:

Veteran pop cover act Kidz Bop Kids launch their 2016 campaign with their 31st collection of songs. Still touting their “sung by kids for kids” slogan, the young singers take on big contemporary pop hits by Taylor Swift, Meghan Trainor, Demi Lovato, among many others. As on all the Kidz Bop releases, the backing tracks are uber-tight and the Kids’ covals sound so faithful to the original performances that they nearly sound like adults themselves.

  1. What Do You Mean?
  2. Stitches
  3. Wildest Dreams
  4. Drag Me Down
  5. Hotline Bling
  6. Same Old Love
  7. Ex’s and Oh’s
  8. Sorry
  9. Confident
  10. Like I’m Gonna Lose You
  11. Renegades
  12. Here
  13. On My Mind
  14. Downtown
  15. Hello

My Thoughts:

My crazy daughters absolutely love listening to all the great Kidz Bop CD’s. We are always jamming out to this music while in the car and while hanging out at our house. They are very excited when the mail comes and brings with it a brand new exciting CD. This new CD was very exciting to them as there were many new songs on it for them to learn and sing along with.

I also am a teacher and enjoy playing this great CD at school as well. Most of my students only enjoy listening to popular music, but that clearly is not appropriate for me to play while at school, so Kidz Bop is the best solution ever for me to have.

I will continue to purchase each and every Kidz Bop CD that comes out as my children are growing up and I continue teaching.

Try Kidz Bop out if you haven’t already.

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Balancing Life with a Cat, Nine Lives starring Kevin Spacey

January 29, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Life/Work balance, unplugging and making time for family each day (Storytime, dinnertime, special movie night, etc.)

There was a recent commercial for a car, about how we work too hard and asks the question, “When did it become bad to leave on time?”  This commercial made me laugh because it is precisely what I hear and see every day.  People staying late every day is just wrong and a very difficult pattern to stop.  With expectations getting higher as more people are let go, work can try to bite into family time often.  Not paying you for spending more of your time there, either, of course. This can lead to more stress at home and definitely more irritability.  So a balance must occur, you don’t want to end up missing all the fun stuff to be somewhere more stressful.  You may end up as a cat….

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On behalf of EuropaCorp, I am happy to share the teaser trailer for the upcoming film, NINE LIVES! Starring Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Garner, Malina Weissman, Cheryl Hines, Christopher Walken and Robbie Amell, NINE LIVES is the story of a stuffy businessman, Tom Brand (Kevin Spacey), who finds himself trapped inside the body of his family’s cat. If any hope exists of returning to his family as the husband and father they deserve, Tom will have to learn why he has been placed in this peculiar situation and the great lengths he must go to earn back his human existence.  This movie looks like its going to be fun to watch and it has everyone’s favorite Christopher Walken of course.

 

Release: August 5, 2016

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Written by: Matt Allen & Caleb Wilson and Daniel Antoniazzi & Ben Shiffrin

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Garner, Malina Weissman, Cheryl Hines, Christopher Walken, Robbie Amell

Produced by: Christophe Lambert

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EuropaCorp has provided the information and gift.  Please consult the FTC Endorsement and Testimonial Guides (available at http://ftc.gov/os/2009/10/091005revisedendorsementguides.pdf) for more information. All opinions are my own and honest.

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