Purchasing Orange Juice for Your Family
Marketing Gimmick: Not From Concentrate (NFC) orange juice does not mean fresher than concentrated OJ
Category: Kids
“Wild Thing” Hot Wheel
Anyway, I was searching Google Images for a specific Hot Wheels car. I stumbled across your photo on your old blog and saw that you had it. I am really interested in trying to find the name of the car. I am looking to purchase it for a friend.
That’s the image, from the left it is 8th car down, 4th column over. Futuristic orange/red/chrome one. Any help would be greatly greatly appreciated! :-)
Justin
Growing up with Dollar Store Junk
Dollar Store toys are terrible quality that breaks easily, is unrepairable and disappoints your kids
Home Made Pineapple Freezies
The tropical pineapple fruit is now famous throughout the world. The leafy top can also be cut and grown as an attractive houseplant.
Make a Professional Skipping Rope
Skipping rope is obviously fun!
Skipping rope, or jumping rope is both fun and healthy. Making a rope that can be well maintained can reduce the cost and increase the endurance of your rope.
___With these instructions you can make a plastic linked skipping rope that can last you a lifetime. Any plastic polyethylene links that are worn out can be easily and inexpensively replaced. The handles are simple loops of rope that are easily looped round the hand, so the rope cannot be accidentally dropped or “let go” while skipping. A 25′ community skipping rope should cost around $8.50CAD.
Consular Rights in Country of Birth
Ryan has a great blog called Lost Laowai and writes from China. One of his readers contacted him about a dire situation he faced. The thread is documented here: What to do when your Chinese ex-wife runs away with your child?. Situations such as these seem common enough that they surface from time to time from different countries but always remain under the radar of the international news services. They apply not only to children but to adults as well. If you are living abroad, you start a family and have kids, be aware of these supposedly well known international laws or you might be in for a huge shock when this go badly wrong.
Milk Allergy and Kosher Labelling for Good Health
On a recent airline flight we ordered kosher meals, but only for one person in our family. The stewardess looked at us quizzically, but gave us our kosher meal anyway. She double checked to ensure we had indeed ordered it. There was no mistake; we were the ones that ticked the kosher box when booking our tickets. As the long flight progressed the stewardess, now quite curious, asked us why we would order the kosher meal. On this trans Pacific flight, of the 500 or so passengers, we were the only ones that ordered a kosher meal.
Learning to Read
No, not I but the little weed. No, I’ve done more than my fair share of school and one of the results of attending post secondary education is the love of books and a seeming insatiable thirst for knowledge. That’s who I am and I cannot change. Recently I tried and failed miserably.
Life Lessons from…Tobogganing
As usual the little one was bored. The boring list includes: full internet and computer games, more Lego than you can shake a stick at, robots, Hotwheels, books, the list goes on and on.
I suggest tobogganing. What could be more Canadian than tobogganing? At -10C the weather is not too cold nor too windy. ‘Bogganing is healthy and relatively safe. We head off to the local large and medium hills, side by side. The sun is shining and we climb and make one on the medium and four on the large, all great runs.
Hotwheels, Hotwheels, Everywhere!
Almost his complete collection of Hotwheels
Hotwheels. So many cars, picked up from here and there. Does he really play with them all? Not. Nevertheless there are all sorts of cars, trucks, emergency vehicles and a couple of motorcycles. We needed 2 cases to put house all his cars, and we keep finding more in the house. They’re like weeds. It’s all for fun.
Hotwheels ramps down stairs, blurry
Guess who took the blurry photo, that’s close in height to the handrail?