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Traveling with kids can be exhausting and sometimes a logistical nightmare, especially when you’re in need of extra sleeping arrangements. With 4 boys it’s always hard to find sleeping arrangements for everyone…they usually end up on a pile of blankets in the floor, which isn’t always fun for the older one. This holiday season, pack Kid-O-Bunk – a new travel sleep solution for kids.
Because it uses patented lock-in discs, there are no tools needed for assembly – just snap and lock in the discs to configure into a stackable bunk, two single cots or a bench. The hygienic, machine-washable polyester sleeping deck conforms to the child’s body shape for contoured comfort.
It packs down into its own zippered carrying bag for easy storage and transport and comes with matching side organizers. Available at Target.com and Cabela’s in lime green and teal.
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It may be excellent on paper to make as many sushi rolls as possible – from scratch, natch – but it’s not always the best idea to go all out like that. You need to know your cooking limits, so you can still go with a theme when you make the best stuffed cabbage rolls recipe around, but you should always know when too hard is too hard. Choose the recipes and the structure of the night that you know how to run, and you won’t be too pressured.
Prepare Yourself
It’s not always easy to run a dinner party – especially as you are likely to be in the kitchen alone a lot. So, it would help if you prepared everything. In the hours leading up to the party, prepare the veggies, parboil the potatoes and roll the stuffed cabbage leaves ready to be cooked. The more prepared you are, the more time you spend with your guests and not slaving in the kitchen.
Don’t Imitate Tom Cruise
It’s nice to make cocktails, but this is your dinner party, not a scene from a Tom Cruise movie! You should keep your drinks menu simple and ensure that your guests are catered for without the theatrics. Your dinner party should be a sophisticated and down to earth affair, and if you ensure that you choose a range of simple drinks, you’re going to provide simplicity for the evening.
Know The Allergies
There is every chance that at least one guest will be allergic to something or have a dietary requirement that you need to know about. Always ask ahead; the last thing that you need is to prepare the perfect beef wellington only to have a vegetarian at the table who can’t eat it!
Get Your Tools Ready
It would be best if you had a bottle opener and oven gloves, warmed plates, and a kitchen ready to feed a crowd. For this to work, you need to prepare in advance so that you aren’t scrambling for bottle openers and screeching about lost oven gloves. You need to know where everything is for a smooth move around the kitchen.
A dinner party is supposed to be a successful and fun evening with friends. It would help if you worked seamlessly so that you can ensure that your party is one that people rave about for a long time. The right food, music, and drinks will really make the night pop!

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With my boys getting older, and needing to get online for school work, and my blogging…having 2 older laptops isn’t cutting it anymore. We have 2 older laptops, but they have both gotten a little temperamental with age, So I’ve been thinking about upgrading for the holidays. I’ve been looking and think that maybe a few Dell Inspiron 15.6” with Intel Laptops would make workflow in our house so much easier.
I’ve had a few Dell computers in my days. My first computer which I took to college back in 1999 was a Dell…a giant desktop, but still a Dell, and the laptop I use now is a Dell (even thought it’s really hubbys laptop)…so I already know they are work horses. My grandmother ordered my first one on the phone, but now they’re available at Walmart so I can just walk in a walk out without the long delivery wait.
I really like this Dell Inspiron Black 15.6 Laptop. Check out the features:
15.6″ LED-backlit touchscreen with HD resolution
720p webcam
3-in-1 memory card reader
Bluetooth 4.0
1 x USB 3.0 ports, 2 x USB 2.0 ports, 1 x HDMI port, 1 x headphone/microphone jack, 1 x RJ-45 Ethernet port
4-cell battery for up to 6 h 33 min battery life
It has all of the necessities that we need with the memory card reader, the USB ports, and I love the fact that it has an HDMI port so we can hook it up to the tv to preview slideshows and presentations. Right now with the Upgrade with Intel Contest, you could win a shiny new laptop!!
To enter the Upgrade with Intel Contest, here are some instructions:
Click on the image above to visit the microsite
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What a great way to start your holiday shopping! Enter the contest to win a new laptop for yourself or that someone special on your list! Good luck!
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*Disclosure: I was invited by disney on an all expenses paid trip to L.A. to attend the press junket and premiere for Disney’s The Jungle Book, however all experiences and opinions are 100% my own!
Before we had the opportunity to walk the red carpet at “The Jungle Book” world premiere, we had the opportunity to interview Jon Favreau & Neel Sethi & talk auditions, cow bell & more!
So like most we wondered where the idea to do the movie came from…Jon was working on a project called “Magic Kingdom”, and at the same time Disney began doing films like Cinderella, Maleficent, Alice & Pirates all being exploited as their own franchises so they weren’t moving forward with the Magic Kingdom project, but Jon still wanted to do something with live humans but a set that you’re not going to build, but work with special effects instead. He met with Rob Legato to talk visual effects and discuss what you could do with them. Not long after that he got a call from Disney to come in and because Alan Horn loves the Jungle Book they wanted to explore what could happen. Jon wanted to keep it photo real but still give it a dream like quality so you see the whole thing through kid’s eyes. Play with scale a bit and have fun with it.
We also wondered how he knew when he found his Mowgli.
“I can’t take credit for this talented young man. He wasn’t experienced but he had a quality and being a Father, I recognized it, it was confidence. He was a full formed version of himself and so we kind of got who he was very quick, and I think the fact that he wasn’t a kid who was out there looking for acting jobs made it fun for him. It didn’t feel like he was concerned about failing or concerned about getting the part or not.”
What was it like for Neel to beat out 2000 other children for the part?
“2 weeks later, like we flew to LA and we were in the Hotel. The Producer called and were like flipping and jumping and we were so happy. We went out and got my favorite food.”
So what does a new actor get to eat to celebrate? Lobster Ravioli of course!
You might wonder how he acted without having the animal there to interact with…we had the same thoughts. The Jim Henson puppeteers created puppets for him to interact with and Neel had this to say:
“I would just make it normal that it’s not a puppet. It’s like a Bear or a Panther. That’s Baloo. Hi Baloo. And then instead of seeing a Puppet, I would see it like that. That made it a lot easier and sometimes they made them look like Baloo and that helped a lot, and Jon actually got into the puppet sometimes and that helped me interact with him.”
Neel attended a traditional school and had finished 5th grade when he auditioned. So when he went back to traditional school, it was like he never left, he just slipped back in..
“it was just normal again and everybody thought it was cool for like a week and then like all right, enough.”
Have you ever wondered if an actor or director keeps something from a movie they are working on? I know I have! Apparently Harrison Ford kept something from was “Cowboys and Aliens”…He and Daniel Craig took their horses! Well on this movie…Jon said he did keep something and as he was talking we all knew exactly where he was going with it!
“The one I took from this was, um, if you notice when he goes into King Louis, the Temple where King Louis is…”
At this point we all knew! The Cowbell! Keep an eye out for it when you watch this weekend!
“A little more Cowbell.”
What makes a great movie for me, is something that can stand the test of time and can entertain both young and old. Jon Favreau feels the same…
“A great thrill for me is to show the kids and the whole family what we’ve been doing and then you get your first sense by looking in their eyes. And sometimes you show them versions that are almost done because you know their taste and — and I know it from the perspective of me. I’m 49. I have 3 kids that are different ages. Each one of them seeing how scary you could make it, see when they’re scared but they like it, see when they’re laughing. See the jokes that they get or don’t get. Can you make one for the 9 year old that isn’t boring to the 14 year old, and then of course, you know, for my age as well.”
This film has it all…action, adventure, comedy, thrill & heart. You could tell that Jon is proud of this movie as he was beaming through the whole interview. Neel was just trying to take it all in…I don’t think it’s easy to go from a kid next door to the star in a huge Disney blockbuster!
Come back later this week for more interviews with Sir Ben Kingsley, Lupita Nyong’o & Giancarlo Esposito plus “The Jungle Book” movie review!
Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored post.” The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to write it. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”