I asked my kids what their favourite Netflix show was. The girls were all snuggled up on the couch with their favourite snuggly blankets and their favourite stuffed dolls, and I grabbed the camera and shot a video, asking them to tell me what show they liked watching the best... and well.. their answer kind of cracked me up. It certainly wasn't one I was … [Read more...]
How to Play Blue’s Clues at Home with Your Kids, Making the Everyday Fun with Clues & Puzzle Solving
Last night I was in the kitchen throwing dinner together. Hubby wasn't feeling well and had come home from work and headed straight to bed. I was desperately trying to keep the volume level on the kids down to a dull roar, while simultaneously finishing up dinner. Both kids had had a rough day at school for various reasons, neither of them were in the best mood, and they kept … [Read more...]
Great Deal on a Cool How to Train Your Dragon Book
So the very day after I wrote a post about flicks you can find on Netflix which are adapted from cool kid's books,we randomly stopped in at the local Chapters and I found this lovely hardcover How to Train Your Dragon book hanging out in the discount section. The (In)Complete Book of Dragons It was marked down to $6.99. How could I say no? I mean I have a … [Read more...]
What Will You Be Streaming in 2016?
So yesterday I talked about how, in a roundabout way, my secret New Year's resolution is to watch more Netflix. Currently hubby and I are watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a show which we intentionally avoided when it originally aired. Back in the day many of our friends were Buffy fanatics, and we used to laugh at them when they would say they couldn't do x or go to y because … [Read more...]
9PM is the New Midnight! (Well, if you’re still in gradeschool, that is…)
My parents had what was probably the least exciting New Year's Eve ritual of all time. They would stay up until midnight sitting in their usual spots in the living room, watching TV and reading the paper, as they did pretty much every night from 1980-ish to 2010-ish. Come midnight my mom would make a fresh cup of tea. By 12:30, at the lastest, they would be in bed. Some years, … [Read more...]
Bending the Rules and Changing our Bedtime Routines, #5MoreMinutes with @Netflix_CA
When my kids are home sick from school it's often Netflix to the rescue. No news here, I've written many times about how sniffles and snuggly blankets on the couch go hand in hand. So when the latest batch of nasty germs started making it's way around our household plenty of children's shows on Netflix of course helped to pass the icky time. The big kid was sick for a few … [Read more...]
Glinda the Magical Pokemon Trainer of Oz and the Pikachu Princess in Black…
This year the girls wanted Pokemon costumes. The idea was partly fuelled by their obsession with watching Pokemon on Netflix, and partly by the fact that they had seen a "make your own Pikachu costume" section in their Chirp magazine. The 5 year old brought September's magazine to me, folded carefully open to display the magazine's idea for a Pikachu costume. "This is what I … [Read more...]
Curing the Back to School Jitters
I have a little one who is nervous about heading to school. She's going into Kindergarten next month. Our countdown tells me it's 16 days away. Some days, when I'm ready to trade her to the neighbours for a decent cup of coffee, it feels like it can never come soon enough. Other days, I feel almost as nervous as she does at the idea of relinquishing my baby into someone else's … [Read more...]
Look in a Book, On Netflix — Six Literary Based Children’s Flicks to Enjoy with Your Kids
When I was a kid I loved to hunt down the books that went with the various animated specials I saw on television. I would carefully watch the credits, eagerly scanning for that all important line "based on the novel by" and then hunt for the book the next time I was at the library. Books gave you more. When you saw that amazing cartoon and you wanted desperately to be one of … [Read more...]
On Raising Pinocchio… #StreamTeam
I'm often stunned by just how different my two girls are. Going into this child number two business I thought, particularly since it was another girl, that I would be walking through all the same steps. Already been there. Easy. Ha. Not even close. Same parents, born just two years apart, raised in the same environment, yet they are night and day. Girl number one is quiet, … [Read more...]
And Now the Important Question, Will House of Cards Have a Fourth Season?
Last week we finished watching the third season of House of Cards. Yes, for those of you following along from home, your math is correct. That means we devoured all three seasons in under 4 weeks. Yum. Anyroad, without getting into any spoilers season three ended on a crummy note, with about a bazillion loose ends left laying around. Most unsatisfying. So I of course did the … [Read more...]
Living Under a Rock, with Netflix
I'm out of touch with the world. You know that moment where you are staring at someone and saying "How the heck have you never heard of x? What rock did you just crawl out from under?" Yeah well, that person you're staring at is probably me. This isn't a getting old thing. My kid sister has been teasing me about how out of touch I am for, well, as long as I can remember. Pop … [Read more...]
Shrek’s Puss continues his adventures on the small screen in Netflix Original Series: The Adventures of Puss in Boots
I stood in the doorway chatting with my mom as she got ready to take my kids away for an overnight sleepover. She mentioned there was a new Netflix series she was going to show the girls. "I put it on to check and see if it would be appropriate for them.... and I ended up watching three episodes by myself.", she said with a giggle in her voice. I was puzzled to know just … [Read more...]
Last Minute Gift, Think Netflix?!? #StreamTeam
I am all about the last minute gifts. While I keep a well stocked gift trunk there is always someone I forget about, or someone I don't realize we'll be seeing or exchanging with until that right down to the wire last minute. So every year on here I've highlighted some of my last minute gifts of choice, and this year my suggestion is... Netflix giftcards! I guess they … [Read more...]
Secret Confession: What I Really Watch When the Kids Are in Bed #StreamTeam
My guilt pleasure? I love watching documentaries (and, ahem, the occasional kid's cartoon), all by myself once the kids are in bed. Just now I was sitting here on the computer and something hopped into my head. I wanted to look up if a particular show was available on Netflix, and when I opened Netflix in my browser front and centre pops up my To Watch list. I only … [Read more...]