events
4th
March
2010
Posted in: Local Shop n' Dine, events
From the Region comes a super cool feature for your computer!
My Durham Desktop is your weekly inspiration for things to do in Durham Region. It’s a computer desktop calendar that serves up a new wallpaper showcasing beautiful images of Durham Region every week.
Each captivating image is accompanied by a pop-up window that informs you of local events and happenings. I downloaded it last week, and I just love it.
Follow this link to get your own My Durham Desktop.
12th
February
2010
Posted in: Local Shop n' Dine, events
How we all love a holiday! Especially one that celebrates family. No matter what form yours is, we wish you a splendid long weekend, and hope you do something special with your loved ones.
Be sure to check out our events calendar for what’s happening around Durham (our friends at Creative Play have a great party happening!), and visit your local municipality’s website to see what free things are on Monday, February 15. Up in the Boonies, we’re planning some free swimming at our local pool, and partaking in a free barbeque at the Legion!
Enjoy.
3rd
November
2009
Posted in: Contests, Local Shop n' Dine, events, free tickets, shopping
 It’s a big show weekend, with both Mamas & Chicks on in Oshawa, and Market Moms on in Uxbridge this Saturday, November 7.
And we again have free tickets for both! There are 150 up for grabs from Mamas & Chicks, and 10 from Market Moms.
Both of these shows highlight the best of our local parentpreneurs. They’re stroller-friendly, have food, loot bags and ample parking. Start your Christmas shopping early — shop local, avoid the malls, and support your fellow parents. The scenery is beautiful this time of year, and I encourage you to take the day to drive to both!
Here’s how to win:
- For Mamas & Chicks: Visit www.mamasandchicks.com and click through the pages to find out how many times Durham Region Baby is listed on the site
- For Market Moms: Visit www.marketmomsonline.com and find out the name of the venue where the show is being held
Email the answers to info@durhamregionbaby.com ASAP for your FREE ticket to each show.
These are popular contests, and tickets usually go within 24 hours — enter quick!
9th
September
2009
Posted in: Local Shop n' Dine, Product Reviews, babies n' kids, events, play
Our friends at MusiGo are throwing a FREE dancing, instrument-playing, yoga-posing wiggle party this coming Monday in Bowmanville for kids 6 months-3 years:
Mon., Sept. 14
9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Theatre Dance Academy
2445 Baseline Rd., Bowmanville
Registered programs begin the following Mon., Sept 21st.
We’d love to attend and share the fun with you, but both my girls are in daycare.
Are any of you free to go in our place and share the experience with a write-up and photos?
Leave a comment and let me know!
21st
May
2009
Posted in: Local Shop n' Dine, babies n' kids, events
It seems like from here on in, there’s some family fun-ness happening in Durham.
This weekend is no exception.
Saturday is the much-anticipated Mom2Mom Sale in Ajax. All the details are here.
Many of Durham Region’s Farmers’ Markets open this weekend or next. All winter, when we drive by the location of our local one, Lucy yells, “Therrrrrrre’s the Market!” Can’t wait to get some fresh and local food again. Click here for a list to find your closest one.
Saturday is also the Region of Durham’s annual National Public Works Week celebrations, where you can tour various recycling, traffic, water and compost facilities. It may SOUND boring, but they’re actually lots of fun for kids to see where our stuff goes. Plus, you get to see big tractors and diggers and dudes in hard hats (perhaps that last one is something for the moms?).
Finally, and this one is for us north Durham folks (go Boonies!), there’s free compost to be had at the Uxbridge Arena from 8 a.m.-noon.
Take a spin through your local paper to find all the garage sales, too. This weekend seems to be the unofficial kick off to the season.
(Eric, I’m gonna be gone for a few hours on Saturday morning. Good luck with the kids!)
Don’t forget to visit our local events page here for more.
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Want to advertise your event to our targeted audience? Email info@durhamregionbaby.com to find out how!
12th
May
2009
Posted in: Contests, Local Shop n' Dine, events, shopping
Lucy once again enjoyed reaching into the ballot box and throwing paper in the air fishing out winners. Alice was on her belly nearby, and almost ate three names. Good thing y’all wrote in pen!
Here are the prize winners from the Mamas & Chicks Show (check your email, ladies):
25th
April
2009
Posted in: Local Shop n' Dine, babies n' kids, events, shopping
If you live in Durham Region or anywhere in south central Ontario today, you know it’s GORGEOUS out — currently 28 degrees up here in the Boonies! Unfortunately I’m spending some of the afternoon getting ready for tomorrow’s Mamas & Chicks Show, which includes this reminder blog post, which in hindsight is probably pointless because you’re probably all outside!
Eric, Alice and I will be there just inside the front entrance, so be sure to say hello and enter to win all this booty:
Another special thanks to our friends in the Durham Region parent-geared business community for the support and product donations. Don’tcha all love freeeeee stuff?
See you there!
20th
April
2009
Posted in: Local Shop n' Dine, babies n' kids, events, shopping
CONTEST CLOSED: FREE TICKETS ALL GONE!
It’s spring shopping time, and the Mamas & Chicks Show in Oshawa this Sunday is just the place to mingle with other moms and support local businesses (my fave!).
There’s free parking, tons of great prizes to win, more than 55 exhibitors, and the Cutest Spring Chick Competition to win a photography and art portrait. We’ll be at the very first table when you enter the show, so be sure to say hello.
Want to go and not pay? I don’t mean sneak in the back door (is that even possible with a babbling baby and ginormous stroller?), I mean get on The List for free tickets.
These contests are always so challenging. My brain hurts from coming up with this skill-testing question:
How much is admission for the suckers who have to pay because they won’t be on The List? You’ll find the cost somewhere on the show’s website.
The first 50 to send the answer to info@durhamregionbaby.com win, so enter soon!
Here’s what we’re giving away on Sunday:
See you there!
20th
April
2009
Posted in: Local Shop n' Dine, babies n' kids, events, shopping
Lucy had great fun drawing these names for the Baby & Toddler Show winners, which included grabbing a fistful of ballots and throwing them in the air like confetti. Note to self: 3-year-olds make terrible office assistants.
If you think one of these is you, and you haven’t received an email, that means your spam folder ate my note. And if you get home tonight and there’s a message from a stange woman with someone blowing spit bubbles in the background? It’s not a crazed person from the mental health ward at the hospital calling…that’s Alice and I.
Congrats to all!
I’ve got more goodies to give away at this Sunday’s Mamas & Chicks Show in Oshawa, including free tickets. Stay tuned!
14th
April
2009
Posted in: Blog: Life with Lucy & Alice, Local Shop n' Dine, babies n' kids, events, news from the change table, photos, the hubby, the outside world
The show went great. There were more than 1,000 people through the doors (I wonder if they count babies, too?), and the place was steadily busy until around 2 when nap time hit. I met a ton of people, said hi to some readers, and received lots of interest in both sites (and giveaway entries, too! Winners announced tomorrow).
Thankfully Alice was like this most of the day. She slept for a bit in the morning in her car seat, then Eric took her to the mall for a while so she could doze in the stroller. I keep meaning to write about how she’s freaked out at strangers since, oh, birth, and how worried I was about how she’d react to everyone. But like a true baby, she surprised us all.
My (pregnant again!) friend Colleen sent the girls these fabulous matching Easter pajamas from Old Navy (there’s an egg with sunglasses on, and the caption says, “I’m a cool egg”). Lucy is so tickled when she and Alice match. I’ve got to find more paired clothes for them. This was at bedtime on Saturday after a long day at the show, and Alice is quite understandably done.
She was in a much better mood in the morning.
Lucy went absolutely bonkers over the eggs the Easter Bunny hid for her. She shuffled around the house in her bunny slippers, squealing each time she found one (“Look, Mumma, ah-nudder one!”). The Easter Bunny was supposed to keep track of how many eggs s/he hid to make sure Spencer Dog did not come across any, but s/he was slightly tired. And Lucy loved the hunt so much, she’s spent the last two days re-hiding all the eggs herself, then finding them (or asking us too, all along the way showing us where they are). Makes for much hilarity and eye-rolling, as the kid hides the eggs in the same places over and over again. Still, I think we’re down three or four.
They’ll probably show up at Christmas.
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