The Santa Claus Parade has cancelled the Red Nose Day BBQ that was originally scheduled for November 19th.
So you will just have to catch Santa Claus on the parade day - November 21st!
Santa Claus Parade Update
The Santa Claus Parade has cancelled the Red Nose Day BBQ that was originally scheduled for November 19th.
Monsters, goblins, ghosts and witches come celebrate at Springridge Farm’s Halloween Parade
Come if you dare on October 31 to celebrate a howling good Halloween at Springridge Farm. Dress in your most spook-tacular costumes and parade through the Harvest Festival area, lead by our Bagpiper at 11:30 a.m. Each ghoulish guest who attends will receive a prize.
The wicked time doesn’t end there. Little monsters can also explore our eerie “Boo Barn” as well as frightening face painting; tractor rides to the five-acre corn trail, climb the spider web climber and farm yard pipe slide. In addition, “The Great Pumpkin Mix-Up” puppet show is guaranteed to delight little ones. The show runs at 11 a.m., 12:30, 1:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. (new times)
Springridge Farm has also brewed up delicious pumpkin face cookies and blood-red candy apples to enjoy in our home-made bakery. Trick or Treaters can pick up the perfect Halloween pumpkin from our Farm Market. Choose from a Ghost, Cinderella, Knucklehead or Goose Bump pumpkins.
Festival admission is required to participate in the parade and costs $10 (including HST), for ages 2 and up. There is no charge to visit the farm market, bakery and gift shop. The Springridge Harvest Festival takes place each weekend through to October 31. The hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
More information at www.springridgefarm.com or telephone 905-878-4908.
SPLASH’N BOOTS UPCOMING TORONTO CONCERT DATES
5-13 November 2010 Family Fun Stage, The Royal Winter Fair
20 November 2010
28 November 2010 Kidzfest, Younge and Dundas Square
For a complete list of upcoming shows visit Splash’N Boots Live Tour Site
Want to see Splash’N Boots on Treehouse ? … join the movement to Give-Splash-N-Boots-Their-Own-Treehouse-Show
MINI-REPORTERS INTERVIEW TORONTO’S SPLASH‘N BOOTS ON THE RELEASE OF THEIR 5TH STUDIO ALBUM
Zara Umbach and her friends have formed Zee Reviews at GTAParent.com. They are hitting the kids’ concert circuit and planning music, movie and book review parties. Their Moms are thinking this is an energetic, low cost way for these kids to get together to enjoy music and share movies/books. And, of course, the kids’ secret plan is to meet artists - ‘for real’.
The Zee Reviews team recently grilled Splash‘N Boots on all aspects of their upcoming 5th CD release. The team may be the youngest interviewers Splash‘N Boots have ever sat down with.
“It was such a fabulous idea we couldn’t resist,” smiles Taes Adams, the group’s ‘Boots’. “We know that our young fans are who we owe our success to and we love to hear about how they enjoy and perceive our music.”
Zee Reviews started with background questions - How old are they? Were they married? Do they have any children? How did you get your name?
They are both 29 and Taes just celebrated her birthday! Happy Birthday Taes! They are married and don’t have any children but they have a new puppy named Lily! There first concert was in the pouring rain and everyone got to splash around in boots!
Then the fashion questions – Where did Boots get her boots? Can they jump in the big rubber boots they are featured on this tour?
Boots bought her boots at Payless and added the patches herself and yellow shoelaces. The big yellow boots are blown up for the stage show and so the kids can’t jump in them.
Then the music questions - How did they learn to sing? What music do they like? Do they like their own music? How do you write your songs? Do they have any French songs?
They met in university but their singing careers started when they were young. Taes took singing lessons and joined a choir. Nick’s family all played music, including his three older brothers. He grew up on a farm so that is how he is so good on creating barnyard animal sounds!
They like lots of Canadian bands such as
The success of their album, Popcorn Pickles and Parrots, brought them international recognition. Their list of accolades and achievements include a "Canadian Children’s Group of the Year" award, a
SPLASHN’BOOTS New CD release
Boldly titled Back in Yellow, the duo’s soon-to-be-released CD is a collection of edgy rock and pop songs – think Barenaked Ladies meets They Might Be Giants. The album, recorded over 9 months in 3 different recording studios, features some of Toronto’s best session musicians, boasts celebrity voice cameos including Chris Patterson of The Arrogant Worms and will be available to fans by early December 2010.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each Back in Yellow CD will be donated to
SPLASH'N BOOTS Live concert
Splash'N Boots recent live show in
Splash'N Boots’ style spans all occasions and all ages: music for car trips, music for families, music for campfires, music for the city, music for the country, music for life!
THE DOVE SELF ESTEEM WEEKEND
I think I am a mindful Mom. I think that I work hard to build my daughter’s self-esteem on a daily basis. But school, homework and sport activities take up so much of our family time. I need to check in with my parenting priorities.
Am I doing enough to build my daughter’s self-esteem? Am I giving my daughter the extra attention she needs to counteract negative social messages?
I am inspired by Dove’s invitation to thousands of women across
Dove asks everyone to take 1 hour of our time to focus on a self-esteem activity with a young girl during the Dove Self-Esteem Weekend, October 22 to 24.
Free Online Resources and Registration
Women and local girls’ organizations can go to www.dovemovement.com to sign up, see a list of easy activities they can do at home, download materials and tools for group workshops or browse a list of free public workshops in their communities sponsored by the Dove Self-Esteem Fund.
Some activity ideas:
- Share Words of Encouragement – Send a self-esteem boosting e-mail to a young girl in your life
- Start a Conversation – choose an activity from the mother-daughter activity guide, such as Mom & Me where mothers and daughters can interview each other to learn more about each other
- A Boost Book – show a young girl how to create a scrapbook of encouraging sayings, images and clippings that they can refer to when having a tough self-esteem day
- What is Beauty Photography Project – taking pictures of what’s beautiful in the world around you and what’s beautiful about yourself
Upcoming
The National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC) will be hosting a self-esteem workshop led by NEDIC Director, Merryl Bear on Saturday, October 23, 2-4 p.m. at The Harbourfront Community Centre. Registration can be done online at http://tinyurl.com/dsefweekend
Special Discount to GTA Parent Readers to spend a morning with Parenting Expert Alyson Schafer of Honey I wrecked the Kids Fame!
Join Best Selling Author & Parenting Expert Alyson Schafer - as she explains and solves all of our shared typical parenting frustrations
Where: The Kingsway Theatre, 3030 Bloor Street West
When: Saturday, October 23, 2010
Time: 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Cost: $25 non-member, $20 members - To become a member for only $25 click here
What's Included: Draw for Door prizes
Who's it for: For anyone who works with children ages
0-10 years old.
0-10 years old.
Here are some of the issues Alyson will be dealing with:
• Fighting in the car
• Interrupting while your talking on the phone (to a client!)
• Siblings fights
• Food and eating issues
• Dawdling in the morning and tuck-in
• AND what ever problems parents ask from the floor!
A humorous and enlightening talk for anyone with kids 0 - 10yrs.This event is a charity event for Parent Education Network. P.E.N. is a not for profit, charitable organization. To become a member and see all of the amazing classes P.E.N. offers click here.
This event would not be possible without the support of:
The Royal Family 5K
My daughter just turned 14 months old and I coincidentally still weigh 14 pounds more than when I got pregnant with her. So rather than buy new jeans to fit my now flabby waist, I vow that I will wear those skinny Calvin Kleins again and I’m going to do it by running because eating salads all day and going to karate twice a week just doesn’t cut it.
In fact, my first race will be Disney’s 5k Royal Family Run in Epcot in Walt Disney World on Saturday, February 26th, 2011. I will be buying a second hand jogging stroller and taking my daughter (the cause of my hormones and weight gain) for the ride of her life in my favourite place on earth!
The Royal Family 5k is part of Disney’s Princess Marathon weekend, February 25-27, 2011. I’m not confident I can run a marathon or even a half by then, so 5k is a good start. Those dates fall right into the range of a booking window for Disney’s Free Dining plan – an awesome promotion being offered right now.
My other half, my daughter and I are booked at Disney’s Caribbean Beach Club Resort from Friday, February 25th to Tuesday March 1st, 2011 in a King Bed room, with 4 Day Base Tickets and with the Free Dining Plan for $1,484.22 USD. I’m quite confident in the knowledge that staying in a standard room in the same resort would have saved us more than $100 or staying at Disney’s All Star Music Resort would have saved us about $400 for these five days, but “He” would rather have the guaranteed King sized bed that our daughter will probably end up in with us anyway.
I intend on using our table service credits for character buffet meals. Our daughter will be 18 months old on this trip and I think she might just start to get excited even if she has no clue which characters are who and which Princess kissed a Frog. Regardless, I have big plans for photo opportunities with Cinderella at 1900 Park Fare and Tigger, Pooh and Piglet at Crystal Palace.
We’ll be booking our air transportation from Buffalo. I tried to price flights from Toronto, but the prices were $993.00 and up roundtrip for 2 adults and a lap child while JetBlue would offer us fares at less than $600 flying from Buffalo. We’ll take that four hundred dollars saved and pay for gas, parking and of course, our King sized bed at Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort.
I’m extending an invitation for you to join me. While it is Princess Weekend at Walt Disney World, men are not discriminated against. I’m looking for Sunday morning running buddies to join me in High Park and run with me and my daughter in the Royal Family 5k in Epcot on Saturday, February 26th, 2011. Call me at the office, let’s chat.
And if you’re selling a jogging stroller at a good price, call me, text me, email me, I want to talk to you!
Kathryn Dickson is a Disney Vacation Planning Specialist with Fairytale Dreams and Destinations. Fairytale Dreams and Destinations which is the only TICO registered agency in Ontario that deals specifically with Disney destinations. You can contact Kathryn at 905-857-3611 or by email atkathryn@fairytaledestinations.com
The Great Pumpkin Search! Family Fun on the Farm
A pumpkin is just a pumpkin unless you escape to the Niagara Escarpment and experience the 28th Springridge Harvest Festival. There you will find over 10 acres of pumpkins, ranging in size from tennis balls to 300 pound monsters! Look for your Cinderella, Ghost, Tomato, Knucklehead or Goose Bumps pumpkins.
Springridge Farm offers families a great combination of fun for kids and shopping at the farm market, bakery and gift shop!
“The Great Pumpkin Mix-Up” puppet show runs several times per day and will keep the little ones busy while your older kids learn about farm life. Burn off energy on the 5 acre Corn Trail and Tricky Trail Corn Maze; take a tractor ride or ride the ponies; explore the new and improved “Boo Barn”.
Owners, Laura and John Huges welcome you to celebrate 50 years on their farm in
For more information you can go to www.springridgefarm.com or telephone 905-878-4908.
