EveryDay:

Golden Corral
5730 Opportunity Drive
Toledo, Ohio 43612
Kids Special All day – every day, Children 3 and under eat FREE from the buffet with the purchase of an adult meal.

Fricker’s (Should be all locations, call ahead!)
Kids eat free everyday with the purchase of an adult mean;

Monday:

Sidelines II
2111 Mellwood Ave
Toledo, OH 43613
Kids eat free from 5-9pm with the purchase of an adult meal. (Also half off Pizza)

Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill
512 West Drussel Drive
Maumee, Ohio 43537
Kids eat free from 5-7pm with the purchase of an adult meal.

Tuesday:

Max & Erma’s
7050 West Central Avenue
Toledo, Ohio 43617
Kids 12 & under eat free with purchase of an adult entree. One kids meal per adult entree.

Ralphie’s Sports Eatery
5702 Monroe Street
Sylvania, OH 43560
Kids eat free from 5-9pm with the purchase of an adult meal.

Lone Star Steakhouse
5640 Airport Highway
Toledo, Ohio 43615
All Day Kids 12 and under eat FREE from the kids menu. Limit 2 free kids meals (one per child) per adult entree purchased.

Wednesday:

I have not found any yet for Wednesday only. Please see EVERYDAY above! Let me know if you know any!

Thursday:

I have not found any yet for Wednesday only. Please see EVERYDAY above! Let me know if you know any!

Friday:

I have not found any yet for Wednesday only. Please see EVERYDAY above! Let me know if you know any!

Saturday:

Steak ‘n Shake
5395 Monroe Street
Toledo, Ohio 43623
One free kid’s plate for every $8 spent. Dine-In only.

Lone Star Steakhouse
5640 Airport Highway
Toledo, Ohio 43615
11 to 4 pm Kids 12 and under eat FREE from the kids menu. Limit 2 free kids meals (one per child) per adult entree purchased.

Sunday:

Steak ‘n Shake
5395 Monroe Street
Toledo, Ohio 43623
One free kid’s plate for every $8 spent. Dine-In only.

Hooters
4782 Monroe Street
Toledo, OH 43623
Kids eat Free all day. (Limited Time call ahead!)

Kids eat CHEAP:

Olga’s Kitchen (Everyday)
5001 Monroe Street
Toledo, Ohio 43623
Kid’s meals for $1.99 after 4PM and just $2.99 before 4PM! Dine-in only, adult purchase required.

Spaghetti Warehouse (Monday)
42 S. Superior
Toledo, Ohio 43602
Kids meals are only $1.99 with adult entree purchase

Fazoli’s (Tuesday)
5855 Lewis Avenue
Toledo, Ohio 43612
From 5 to 8pm, Kids meals only $.99 with purchase of adult entree / dine in only. *Please call ahead and verify.

Buffalo Wild Wings (Wednesday)
6710 West Central Avenue
Toledo, Ohio 43617
Kids meals are $1.99

Here are some of the best deals I found:

Purell Hand Sanitizer – $4.99 (limit 5)
Mail-in Rebate = $4.99
Final Price: FREE after mail-in rebate

Expo Fine Point Dry Erase Markers, 4 pack- $5.29 (limit 1)
Mail-in rebate (Visa prepaid card) = $5.29
Final Price: FREE after mail-in rebate

Office Depot brand Filing / Stacking Crates – $6.99 (limit 3)
Mail-in rebate in-store (visa prepaid card) = $6.99
Final Price: FREE after mail-in rebate

A friend of mine works at the Great Wolf Lodge in Pocono Mountains, PA. While visiting my mom one year, he was able to get us day passes to use the water park. Spencer wasn’t born yet and we all had a blast! When we realized there was a Great Wolf Lodge in Sandusky Ohio, only about an hour away, we knew we had to go!

I wrote to Great Wolf Lodge and told them about our plans to take a family trip there in the up coming weeks. They were very kind enough to offer us a discounted stay!

I have no idea why YouTube uploaded it in such poor quality!

There were many things that I was impressed with during our stay. Within the Lodge there are 2 places to eat. One is the Lumber Jack’s Cook Shanty which is open daily for a family style breakfast. Each morning they had a giant breakfast spread.  Pile your plate with made-to-order omelets and waffles, hash browns, bacon, muffins, cereal, fruit and more. It is Buffet Style! All you can eat! And the prices? You are already thinking over priced and outrageous because it is within the Lodge right?  For myself, my husband and 2 children, breakfast was around $35. I was happy to see this for several reasons. Sure, we could run down the road to some nasty fast food place or we could also leave the property, go to a restaurant and pay the same price PLUS waste time driving, Gas, traffic etc. I was happy to get everything I needed AT the lodge.

The other is The Gitchigoomie Grill. The grill is open for lunch and dinner, and can prepare a meal to satisfy any Northwoods appetite.  Adults feast on appetizers, soups, salads, burgers, steaks, pasta and other specialties from the grill. The only thing that I was a disappointed with on our entire trip was my french fries at the Grill. The meals come with chips but my husband and I wanted french fries. It is $1.50 to substitute and you really don’t get many. At first I thought it might have been isolated to that one meal but we ate several there.

One of the things I swore to the cashier I would mention on my blog was a simple but lifesaving find for me personally. I have naturally curly hair so going to a water park with no hair ties is a real issue for me. In my rush to pack I forgot them! I walked into the gift shop and  asked the cashier what was the tiny chance that they had hair ties? Wouldn’t you know, they HAD THEM! Not even junk ones. A name brand, an 8 pack was only $1.69! This was one of those small details that I was happy someone thought of.

They had a few areas for Toddlers but Spencer wasn’t really interested in much of it. All he wanted to do was keep watching the bucket tip. We were not able to do much as a family because we had to keep switching off with Spencer. My personal opinion would be that this location is more fun with children 5 and over unless you have more than 2 adults or someone to watch a smaller child. We did have a BLAST though!

My Personal Suggestions for the Lodge:

• Towels were scratchy. This included the room towels as well as the park towels.
• No place to hang swimsuits to dry in the rooms. Clips in the shower perhaps?
• Switch to turn balcony lights off. We didn’t sit out because it attracted the bugs.

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“Toy Story 3″ welcomes Woody, Buzz and the whole gang back to the big screen as Andy prepares to depart for college and his loyal toys find themselves in? daycare! These untamed tots with their sticky little fingers do not play nice, so it’s all for one and one for all as plans for the great escape get underway. A few new faces-some plastic, some plush-join the adventure, including iconic swinging bachelor and Barbie’s counterpart Ken, a thespian hedgehog named Mr. Pricklepants and a pink, strawberry-scented teddy bear called Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear.

• Tom Hanks
• Tim Allen
• Joan Cusack
• Don Rickles
• Wallace Shawn
• John Ratzenberger
• Estelle Harris
• Blake Clark
• John Morris
• Laurie Metcalf

2010 Summer MovieCamp®

Looking for a cool getaway for gobs of kids this summer? Bring them to AMC Summer MovieCamp and enjoy the magic of movies! Summer MovieCamp will be offered at 10 a.m. each Tuesday morning this summer at participating theatres, from June 15 through August 10.  At only $1 admission, it’s an affordable option for summer fun for families and groups. All admission and concession proceeds will benefit two AMC charities, Variety – The Children’s Charity and the Will Rogers Institute.

No outside food will be allowed during Summer MovieCamp but you can take advantage of our KidsPack™ concession combos for $4 – more than 30% off the regular price.*

Advance tickets will be on sale starting June 8 at 214 participating AMC theatre locations and online. Doors will open at 9:30 a.m. and shows will begin at 10 a.m. local time nationwide. See a list of participating theatres or search by zip code to get tickets. Tickets for each week will be on sale approximately one week prior to the scheduled show date.

June 15 Shrek The Third (PG)	June 22 Imagine That (PG)	June 29 Monsters vs. Aliens (PG)
July 6 Madagascar (PG)	July 13 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (PG)	July 20 Hotel for Dogs (PG)
July 27 Kung Fu Panda (PG)	August 3 The Spiderwick Chronicles (PG)	August 10 Surprise Mystery Title

Written by Rebecca Sprouse:

While this might be a local story, I wanted to reach out to all of my friends to ask for help for two young boys. These two boys (ages 13 and 6) experienced such unthinkable abuse from their mother and stepfather. I cannot even begin to wrap my head around the entire situation.

The abuse was terrible. While I won’t share every detail I will share that the mother and stepfather would lock the 13 year old naked in a closet, where he was tied up, handcuffed and shot with a pellet gun for something as little as “stealing” a honey bun from the pantry. He was also forced to sleep in a closet, where he used a plastic jug as a toilet. You can read the whole story HERE.

I’m sure after reading the story your anger and sadness for these poor boys is the same as mine. Jail time for those parents doesn’t seem adequate to me. It pained me to hear of this happening in the small town I grew up in. While it was a great blessing that the children have gone to a foster home, it’s been bittersweet. The poor boys have only 2 pairs of clothes and no toys. The foster family is doing what they can to provide, however the state of Georgia is not providing any funding.

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Here are the details on the boys:

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Oconee County Sheriff’s Office
1140 Experiment Station Road
Watkinsville, GA 30677

Steve Spangler is a teacher, science toy designer, speaker, author and an Emmy award-winning television personality. Spangler is probably best known for his Mentos and Diet Coke geyser experiment that went viral in 2005 and prompted more than 1,000 related YouTube videos. Spangler is the founder of SteveSpanglerScience.com, a Denver-based company specializing in the creation of science toys, classroom science demonstrations, teacher resources and home for Spangler’s popular science experiment archive and video collection. Spangler is a frequent guest on the Ellen DeGeneres Show where he takes classroom science experiments to the extreme. Check out his pool filled with 2,500 boxes of cornstarch!

Fun Fly Stick – Static Generator

The Fun Fly Stick is an ingenious battery operated static electricity generator that allows you to float tinsel shapes on a cloud of electrons. Press the button on the Fun Fly Stick for a few seconds to generate a static charge. Drop the tinsel shape onto the stick to quickly transfer the negative charge to the tinsel. Since like charges repel each other, the negatively charged tinsel shape floats above the negatively charged stick. The learning curve is about two minutes and you’re ready to amaze everyone with the Fun Fly Stick. Recommended for children ages 5 and up. This was one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time. Since the boys are only 3 and 8, they were TOTALLY amazed at the fact that could “make something fly like Harry Potter”

Mentos Geyser Tube

The Geyser Tube™ is a loading tube for the now famous Diet Coke geyser powered by MENTOS®. If you’ve ever tried doing the experiment, you know how difficult it can be to drop the MENTOS® into the bottle before the reaction takes off… and you’re soaking wet. The Geyser Tube will give you a perfect launch every time with time to stand back. You want to talk about 2 boys laughing so hard they almost throw up? I don’t know why they found it so but they were in tears laughing. Royal had seen this many times on the myth show we watch but he was still “OH MY GOD MOM LOOK!” when it shot up. I will admit that is is much cooler to see it in front of you than on TV!

Now available at Costco, Nature Valley Chewy Trail Mix Bars and Simply Fruit Roll-Ups! They deliver great value and are perfect to have on hand for last minute day trips and even an afternoon in the backyard. We spend a lot of time outside in the summer and the boys are big on Granola bars.

Not only are they nutritious, but they are super convenient too, the club sized snack packs  are individually wrapped and ideal for throwing in your purse or travel bag. We all know that it doesn’t matter where you are or what you’re doing, your little one’s tummy starts to rumble every time!

Nature Valley Chewy Trail Mix Bars are a delightful (just like my blog), 100% natural, combination of tastes and textures you’ll love. Now, you can get 25% more of the whole almonds, peanuts, raisins and cranberries in every bar! With no artificial flavors or colors and only 140 calories, Nature Valley Chewy Trail Mix Granola Bars also contain 8g of whole grain per serving.

Simply Fruit Roll-Ups are a better-for-you treat that kids love! Simply Fruit Roll-Ups are an excellent source of Vitamin C and are available in a convenient variety pack of Strawberry and Wildberry flavors. Every delicious roll is made with 90% real fruit and fruit juice and packs a full serving of fruit. Even more exciting? They’re gluten-free and contain only 50 calories per roll.

Check out your local Club Store today for stock up packages of these delicious snacks and more!

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**Oh, and by the way, let’s not forget the all important FTC disclosure. This giveaway is sponsored by MyBlogSpark, Costco and General Mills. The boys and I received an equal prize pack. You know what is even more shocking??? Tiger Woods was PAID to wear those Nike hats!….shhhhhh, don’t tell the FTC!***

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Babies will giggle with glee as they stack and explore these adorable block toys! Each whimsical block is home to a friendly face and a busy activity like squeaking or rattling. Little ones love all the fun and parents love how these toys encourage hands-on play and help develop fine motor skills. When you’re done, all the blocks pack up into the handy travel case, which can also be used as a shape sorter! Ages 12 months and up. Approx. Retail: $22.99

Spencer loved these blocks. He sat playing with them for over an hour! A mom’s dream toy! The thing I loved best was that it closes up into a nice carrying case so that we were able to take them place with us. It was a lot nicer than throwing a handful of toys that he may not want into the diaper bag. My younger neices and nephews were able to play with these as well.  I did notice that 15 month old babies had a hard time holding onto the bigger blocks. The size is great to prevent choking but you want the kids to be able to play with it as well.

Playskool Blocksters with Shape Sorter Case is available on Amazon for $20.00 or you can purchase it directly from Hasbro online for $22.99. It is also sold at many retailers.