Category: 2011 Christmas Gift Guide

World Vision is building a better world for children. 

You can help unwrap a better tomorrow with meaningful, charitable gifts through them.  World Vision’s Gift Catalog offers items that change lives around the world.  While most people think holiday gifts are meant to be wrapped with a bow, the truth is more than 800,000 people around the world were impacted by gifts last year through World Vision’s Gift Catalog, and none of those came with wrapping paper or ribbon.

Regular readers of my blog will know that I LOVE ice cream.  Summer or winter, our freezer is always stocked with it.

If you don’t know about Annoying Orange then my bet is you don’t surf YouTube much.

Annoying Orange is an animated webisode series that went absolutely viral across the internet.  This holiday season you can the Annoying Orange fans in your life with branded merchandise.

The fourth film in the popular SPY KIDS film franchise, SPY KIDS:  ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD has hit the shelves, what a great holiday gift for the kids!

SPY KIDS:  ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD is available for a SRP of $39.99 for the Blu-ray Combo Pack, which includes a Blu-ray, a standard definition DVD, a Digital Copy of the film, as well as a special bonus disc that includes a 3D Blu-ray version of the film – for a total of 4 discs; and $29.98 for the standard definition DVD.

I really wasn’t a ‘big’ Disney fan until I was an adult.  As a kid my parents took us to Disney World once and I was just five and don’t remember a lot of that vacation.  But for some reason I had this idyllic sense of mind that when I got married I wanted to go to Disney World for my honeymoon.

SpongeBob Surf & Skate Roadtrip Now Available on XBox Kinect & Nintendo DS!

Grab your board. Carve it up!
Hit the sand and surf with SpongeBob and his best pal, Patrick, for some super boarding escapades! Ride mondo waves and winding waterways, and skate gnarly seaside streets and ramps for hours of challenges that’ll test your awesome boarding skills.

If there is one thing that I am picky about it’s my coffee.  I can handle sub-par food, but not coffee.  My coffee needs to be just right or I can get kind of crabby about it.  When I was at the BlogEats conference, Kraft had set up a couple of Tassimo machines with assorted hot beverages for us to enjoy with our breakfast.  Yes while the Tassimo is made by Bosch, the T-Discs that you use with the Tassimo system are produced by Kraft Foods (who knew right?!) 

Do you ever find yourself frustrated because you need to be on the phone but you also have a million other things to do around your home?  Whether it’s because you’re waiting on hold to iron out details with an insurance company, talking long distance to family or friends or a work related call, you are frustrated because your child needs a band-aid, your laundry needs folding or you’re in the middle of making dinner.

Winter is coming, and with it Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s and (gasp) perhaps the five extra pounds the average person gains over the holiday season!  Add that on top of the calories we downed from the Halloween candy we pilfered our children shared with us.

Do you make New Year’s resolutions?  Is getting fit on your ‘to do’s’ for 2012?

If it is here is a gift you can get for yourself – Zumba Fitness 2 for the Wii.

A colorful adaptation of the fifteenth best-selling children’s book of all time, The Littlest Angel takes us on a rousing adventure with a young, and sometimes mischievous, Angel, who must return to earth and earn his wings, a task that doesn’t prove to be easy.  Children have loved this book since 1946, and I’m sure the movie will delight this next generation of children just as much.  This lively CGI animated version of the book is filled with both humor and heart.