Just in time for Easter, bunnies and chicks take over in Scholastic Storybook Treasures: Max’s Chocolate Chicken a new 3-disc collection– perfect for holiday gift giving! You may be familiar with Max & Ruby from Nick Jr.

Scholastic Storybook has taken 13 award winning stories and incorporated them into one set. The total run time of this collection is 2 hours and 57 minutes plus extras.

Children are sure to smile as they join Max and Ruby on an exciting Easter egg hunt to gather the most in hopes to receive a prized chocolate chicken!

A crazy-eyed chicken and all his panicked friends try to run away from a falling sky in Ed Emberley’s and Rebecca Emberley’s delightful “Chicken Little” and your children can learn a fun baking recipe for splendid cake with “The Red Hen”! With celebrity narration by Lily Tomlin, Randy Travis, Michael McKean, and more! Read more…

                

Diamond Candles is looking for bloggers to review their soy candles! Each candle contains a ring valued at anywhere from $10 to $5000. If you would like to review these candles, be one of the first 100 bloggers to sign up at Diamond Candles!

                

If your peanut-allergic child is starting a new school next year, now is the time to  be prepared with Likewear’s No Nuts! insulated lunch bag . With a front pocket, zippered main compartment, and insulated interior, the affordable and sturdy school lunch bag keep cold lunches cold and hot lunches hot and alerts others of your child’s peanut allergy. There’s plenty of space for snacks and a water bottle as well!

If your child is allergic to peanuts, wouldn’t you feel better knowing that he had a “peanut allergy” lunch bag? Read more…

                

Your life is about to get a whole lot smoother!

Protein shake bottles offer an easy-to-use, fast, and convenient solution to mixing protein drinks. We have tried various sports bottles, but nothing can compare to blender bottle’s easy to clean design and whisk ball. The blender bottle comes with a blender ball that helps dissolve pretty much any type of powder you may put in your bottle.  Simply insert ingredients, drop in the BlenderBall, and then shake. The Blender­Ball whips around inside the bot­tle, mix­ing your drinks to a smooth and light con­sis­tency every time.

The BlenderBall  unique mixing method  creates smooth, clump-free mixes even from the thickest of ingredients.  The BlenderBottle also works well as a baby formula mixer. Made of 316 surgical-grade stain­less steel, the Blender­Ball is designed to remain in the bot­tle until you’ve enjoyed it’s con­tents. Read more…

                

By Shawn DesRochers

You sunk my Battleship

Battleship has always been a childhood favorite of mine that has not diminished any with age. The Battleship game is as fun now as it was in public school,  where I would play the game for hours.  Hasbro has now updated the classic Battleship game to reflect the story of the upcoming Battleship movie.

The Classic Battleship Movie Edition Game features similar game-play but with navy ships and alien ships. The movie edition game comes in two folding hard-cases that make it convenient to transport and store all of the pieces for easy play and is the ideal size for summer traveling. Read more…

                

Where Comfort on her feet meets the streets

OKA b. is a Atlanta based shoe manufacturer that makes flip-flops, sandals, slides and thongs that are just as comfy and good for the planet as they are trendy. If you recall I first reviewed them last spring.

I just love the OKA b. 2012 new spring & summer collection and the nice thing is the entire collection is priced under $45- making it easy on your pocket book.

My daughters favorite OKA b shoes are the Poppy in Fuchsia, which is from the from the OKA b. S/S collection. She just loves her Fuchsia Poppy thongs. I like how the shoes are adorned with bright spring flowers and stones. Read more…