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Children love balloons. It’s a well known fact that even though they can cry if their balloon pops in their faces they will still be back for more. The colours, the way they float and the pure celebration of them keeps kids attracted no matter what their age. Now, magnify that happy feeling that kids get by 100% and you will feel what it’s like to attend the hot air balloon festival in St Jean sur Richelieu. And amazing experience for kids young and old, the Montgolfieres St Jean sur Richelieu is the largest hot air balloon gathering in all of Canada.

As a first post after a very challenging time in our little family’s life, I couldn’t be happier to write about a great company and fun launch. Kinder has teamed up with Monsters University to introduce for the first time (ever!) 100% licensed toys in their Kinder eggs.

If you are a mama of my generation, when you think of a toy telephone, the only toy that will pop into your head is the Fisher-Price toy rotary phone, right? Fisher-Price toys are synonymous with our era. I can honestly say I was a Fisher-Price kid. The other day I searched “vintage Fisher-Price” (sigh) and sure enough, every childhood memory I had came rushing straight back to me when I saw the toys I used to have.

Have you ever tried this parlor trick? I found it, as I find a lot of cool things, on Pinterest. My kids were fascinated with it! The natural candle is made from the skin of a Clementine orange with the center skin inside. All you have to do is add some olive oil inside and then once you light the skin, it will burn until the olive oil runs out.

We had fun putting this together with a moss wreath we already had. All you need are pipe cleaners, gold foil (ours came from chocolate coins) and a little figurine you can paint green. Papa Smurf never looked so good! Poke, glue gun and voila!

Have you started following the ABC Friday Photo Share? I’m a little late getting this in today but I am really having fun with this meme created by the fantastic Maple Leaf Mommy and Mom Vs The Boys.

What is it about pink for girls and blue for boys that gets everyone talking? Well, for one thing it is placing a child in a category before they can even decide anything on their own. For another, girls look really cute in pink. As you can see I’m torn in…

I am loving this fun meme Maple Leaf Mommy and Mom Vs The Boys started!

When I was young, my father would come back from business trips with small figurine dolls dressed in typical attire of different countries around the world. I had a pretty extensive collection with dolls from Ireland, North America, and Italy, to name a few. To me, I felt like I was being taught something. In some ways I was, because from each doll came a story from my parents about places I had never been to but was hoping to see when I got older.

It’s that time of year again, friends!

I am so excited to tell you about the latest and greatest toys from my favourite toys store, Jouets Choo-Choo! If your frequent my blog, you know that Jouets Choo-Choo is my all-time favourite toy store.