Every year since Jeremy was born, we’ve been custom making calenders online as Christmas gifts for two sets of grandparents and a copy for ourselves. Withdoubt, we get very positive responses and much appreciation from both sides of the family plus friends when they see Jeremy’s cute photos hanging on the wall!
Snapfish currently has a special offer at the moment where by you will receive 35% off a custom made calender for $15.95 (usually $24.95). In addition, you’ll receive a further 20% discount on duplicate calendars in the same order.
Type in the coupon code CALAAU8 at the checkout to receive this offer.
We’ve been using Apple’s online calender making tool for our calenders but it works out to be double the price with the special going at Snapfish so we’ll have to switch to Snapfish this year because this offter is too good to bypass!
The Mattel Playhouse has a great offer for November 2008 where you will receive 30% off all toys, including those that are already discounted!
They stock items such as electronic toys, nursery products, accessories, board games and all kinds of toys under Mattel, brands such as Fisher Price, Barbie and heaps more.
This offer is only valid in November at their Collingwood location in Melbourne. To read more, go to OzBargain and print out the flyer.
I have some exciting news! That box of dirt that I was anxiously staring at everyday finally proved that it wasn’t just a box of dirt and cute little mushrooms shot through last week.
I was fairly busy last week and didn’t get a chance to check on the mushrooms and just when I took my eyes off them, they appeared. So it’s not a dud as I mentioned in my last mushroom post. However, I had expected them to grow more evenly spread out, not in little clumps here and there.
They have been growing so quickly since the first few appeared! I have enough to make something with them now. Perhaps a beef and mushroom stew or a creamy mushroom soup?
For many months now, I’ve watched all of my friends turning the dvd or tv on to entertain their kids. I’ve watched in envy as their kids quieten down and become happy little angles in front of the tv and wondered to myself why Jeremy doesn’t like watching tv. Perhaps the occasional ad keeps him entertained for a short period of time but nothing else. Not Thomas the Tank Engine, Not Dora the Explorer, Not The Wiggles, Not High 5, nothing, zilch… until In The Night Garden, it only took 2.5 years for Jeremy to finally be fascinated by something on tv!
I can’t tell how much of a saviour it has become. I now turn it on when I need Jeremy out of my hair, it is almost an indulgence that I feel guilty about doing except I don’t! I watch it with Jeremy, easily through a whole episode and forget that I’ve been sitting there watching it. That’s how entrancing it is.
Spurned on by it’s powers to entertain Jeremy for the whole programme, I decided to go out there and get him some In The Night Garden toys. They haven been almost as good at keeping him entertained as the programme. I think the toys are a bit pricey but Target, ABC Shop, Toys R Us often have special promotions for these toys. There is not a huge variety from the In The Night Garden range to choose from but the ones they do have are enough to entertain Jeremy.
It’s fantastic and I highly recommend it to any mums out there who need that 30 minutes of quiet time. I know that sounds awful and all sorts of children’s experts are telling us not to let our kids spend so much time infront of the tv but a mum’s got to do what a mum’s got to do.
