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SpongeBob SquarePants: The Best 200 Episodes Ever Giveaway

Nickelodeon is celebrating 20 years of SpongeBob SquarePants with a 75 hour DVD Collection of Nautical Nonsense.

 

SpongeBob Squrepants: The Best 200 Episodes Ever will be available nationwide on August 27th!

SpongeBob SquarePants DVD

This DVD collection, made up of two box-sets, will be available  nationwide on August 27, 2019 wherever DVDs are sold. Each DVD comes with the special-edition 20th anniversary SpongeBob SquarePants poster, which was created specifically for Nickelodeon San Diego Comic-Con and features all 760 characters and creatures that have ever appeared on the show.

This collection contains SpongeBob SquarePants: The First 100 Episodes & SpongeBob SquarePants: The Next 100 Episodes and features every deep-sea adventure from the first 200 episodes of the series. Get lost in the zany and wonderful world of Bikini Bottom and relive every “F.U.N.” episode from the first nine seasons including classic episodes such as “SpongeBob You’re Fired,” “It Came from Goo Lagoon,” and “Mermaidman Begins.”

Bikini Bottom is bursting at the seams with the first 200 (and 4) episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants! Soak in every moment of nautical nonsense from the past two glorious decades, including fan-favorite episodes “Pickles,” “Rock Bottom,” “Chocolate with Nuts,” and “Ripped Pants.” Come along for a Krusty Krab pizza delivery, be ugly and proud, prove you’re tough enough for the Salty Spitoon, and ride the Fiery Fist O’ Pain at Glove World. Plus, rock the Bubble Bowl, show Plankton that things are just more F.U.N. with friends, fight EVIIIL with Mermaidman and Barnacleboy, stop on your right foot (DON’T FORGET IT), and more! This nine-season collection of SpongeBob SquarePants will make every day the best day ever!

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SpongeBob SquarePants: The Best 200 Episodes Ever! fast facts:

Street Date: June 15, 2019 (Amazon Prime); August 27, 2019 (nationwide)

Catalog: 59207160000 (US); 59207161000 (CAN)

Running Time: 75 hrs 33 min

Audio: Dolby Digital English Stereo

S.R.P.: $76.99

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Nickelodeon and Paramount Home Entertainment are sponsoring a giveaway on Mommy Ramblings! One lucky blog reader will win their own SpongeBob SquarePants: The Best 200 Episodes Ever! Set!!! 

Thank you to our sponsors for the review set and for sponsoring this amazing giveaway on Mommy Ramblings! Open to US Residents.

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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase Blu-ray Giveaway! #NancyDrew #TheHiddenStaircase

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Nancy Drew And The Hidden Staircase is available now  on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack & DVD!

I am excited to share this Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase Escape Room & Mystery Match Blog App so you can solve the mystery and help Nancy out of a jam! How long do you think it will take you to crack the code and escape the room?


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Uncover the Mystery When Nancy Drew And The Hidden Staircase
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Based on the Bestselling Book! The iconic mystery solving teenager from the classic Nancy Drew books is back with an all-new feature-length film that will keep you guessing until the very end!  Executive Produced by Ellen DeGeneres, the film stars Sophia Lillis (IT and “Sharp Objects”), Sam Trammell (“True Blood” and “This is Us”), and Linda Lavin (“The Good Wife” and“Alice”) and follows Nancy Drew in her new town, making new friends and on a mission to solve the case!

After the death of his wife, Carson Drew decides to leave Chicago behind and make a fresh start with his daughter in River Heights. But for 16-year-old Nancy Drew, life in a small town is mighty dull. She longs for excitement, adventure, and the chance to make a difference. Nancy gets that opportunity when she is asked to help solve the ghostly activity at the Twin Elms mansion. Can she help explain the creaking footsteps, exploding lightbulbs and the ominous creature? Is it the handiwork of high-school bully Derek Barnes? Or is it possible that the ghost of original owner Malcolm Colfax is back for revenge? Recruiting her best friends George and Bess, along with local “mean girl” Helen, Nancy Drew is on the case!

Giveaway:

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“Parenting First Aid” For When You Feel Like You Are Failing

Do you struggle with parenting your children? That’s a silly questions because we all do at some point. Some days we can feel like we are on our last nerve or dangling at the end of our rope. At times when you feel you are failing at raising your children, you need a pep talk and some insight. Cue Marty Machowski’s, Parenting First Aid and brew a cup of tea.

Parenting First Aid

This uplifting and faith-strengthening devotional book for parents,  will help to encourage you in the midst of  your trials. Full of Scripture, testimonies of faithful parents, and insightful meditations, Parenting First Aid equips moms and dads to run to God and trust his ability to do what they can’t.

Parenting isn’t getting any easier, especially with the introduction of insta-porn on electronic devices, the ease of access to drugs, and the ever-increasing blurring of sexuality. This useful resource is for the weary and overwhelmed parents struggling with their children’s choices, and the culture that wars against their souls.

For families with small struggles or weighty parenting trials—such as children involved with drugs, sexual sin, and teenage rebellion—Parenting First Aid is full of personal, real testimonies of God’s faithfulness to those experiencing hardship.

The easy-to-use format provides encouragement to turn to God in the midst of family difficulty. While God does not promise happiness and ease in parenting, all can find comfort in God and peace beyond understanding through the Scriptures and meditations found in Parenting First Aid.

About the Author

Marty Machowski is a Family Life Pastor at Covenant Fellowship Church in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, where he has served on the pastoral staff for more than twenty years. Marty leads Promise Kingdom, the gospel-centered children’s ministry of Covenant Fellowship. He and his wife Lois and their six children reside in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

He is the author of The Gospel Story Bible, Long Story Short, Old Story New, the Gospel Story Curriculum, Prepare Him Room Advent curriculum and devotional, Wise Up family devotional and curriculum, Listen Up family devotional and curriculum, Dragon Seed, and The Ology.

I was provided with a copy of this book to facilitate my post. As always, my words and views are 100% my own.


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“Truth Matters: Knowing God And Yourself”

Does truth matter? Andrew Petiprin argues that Truth (with a capital T) not only matters, but grounding your life on the ancient truths of the Bible is the way to a better life. Check out his book Truth Matters: Knowing God And Yourself.

Truth Matters: Knowing God and Yourself

Discovering the true answers to the age-old questions, Who is God? and Who am I? will help us flourish. These questions are always connected to our beliefs what we put our faith in. True faith is not a vague belief in a higher power. It is faith in the God who has revealed himself in specific ways in the Bible as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

The life of Christ is there. The church is there. Forgiveness is there. Resurrection, eternal life, and everything else is there. Truth Matters champions the authentic teachings of the Christian faith as the best means of human flourishing. Along the way, readers will learn how doctrine was debated and decided. Doctrine develops, but Truth never changes.

The purpose of doctrine is to make Truth clearer than before, because our lives depend on it. Orthodox Christian doctrine simply paves the way for a better life (both now and forever) than any alternative. It is the only balm for our wounds during inevitable times of distress, and it is also the joy of our hearts in times of blessing. It keeps us from thinking too highly of ourselves by instilling in us an infinite worth given by an all-loving God.

Truth Matters: Knowing God And Yourself   is a good choice if you want to learn more about Christian doctrine and how it can help us lead a more fulfilling live. If you find yourself confused this book may help to clear things up for your especially if you are a new Christian.

I received this book at no cost to facilitate my review. My words and views are 100% my own.


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Suzy Snooze Is The Cutest Night Light, Baby Monitor and Sound Soother #Giveaway #BleepBleeps

I would like to introduce you to Suzy Snooze, a friendly childrens’ night light with soothing sounds that also works as an audio baby monitor and  an alarm clock. The handy free smartphone app is available for both iOS and Android phones. Connect Suzy to the app and she becomes an audio baby monitor. The warm orange glow Suzy emits is similar to sunset and it helps to produce those essential sleep hormones.  A baby sound machine with ambient sounds for sleep, lullabies for kids, and a noise machine – Suzy is the cutest sound machine baby shusher.
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Suzy teaches your toddler to stay in bed – a bit like a kids alarm clock. She keeps her magic hat down while she’s sleeping and in the morning Suzy’s LED wake up light gently switches off and she raises her magic hat. That means it’s ok for children to get out of bed too. Suzy is like an alarm clock for kids!

Sleep inducing sound and music sequences are composed especially for Suzy by one of the UK’s best known electronic music producers, Erol Alkan. Science of sleeping Professor Colin Espie, one of the world’s leading sleep authorities at the University of Oxford and behind Sleepio helped develop Suzy so children can learn healthy sleeping habits. Suzy’s low energy LED night lamp stays cool to the touch and the soft, orange LED night light can also play sleep sounds with running music all night. If your child does wake, Suzy’s cry detection and auto-soothe sends them back to sleep automatically!

Suzy Snooze

Connect Suzy to the BleepBleeps app and she becomes an audio baby monitor. The baby monitor lets you listen in live to your child using high definition, secure audio. Suzy connects with your smartphone using your WiFi network, works worldwide, long-range baby monitor up to 50m/150ft.

About the product
  • SOOTHING SOUNDS: A baby white noise machine with ambient sound maker and lullaby selection, our baby music soothers hush crying babies and help children go to sleep faster and stay asleep all night
  • NURSERY NIGHT LIGHT: The low-energy LED nightlight stays cool to the touch and emits a warm orange light that’s soft and comforting for children and helps produce essential hormones for sleeping
  • BABY MONITOR: A long-range HD audio baby monitor, it lets you listen in on your infant or toddler; if your kid wakes up, auto soothe cry detection changes Suzy to an amazing baby shusher for you
  • ALARM CLOCK: Suzy’s Wake Time feature tells energetic toddlers when it’s ok to wake up and get out of bed, serving as a cute light alarm clock for kids and helping you and your child sleep for longer
  • FREE SMARTPHONE APP: Suzy machines plug into an outlet and connect via WiFi; download the BleepBleeps app for iOS / Android and pair with your phone’s Bluetooth for control over a secure connection

Giveaway

You can enter the giveaway sponsored by Bleep Bleeps and Review Directory for your chance to win a Suzy Snooze of your own. Open to US Residents.

 

 

 

 

 

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Did You Know You Can Have A Free Dinner With Alinta Energy?

Over the years we have seen many advancements in various aspects of our lives in an effort to make things easier and simplify our lives.  In everything ranging from technology to the automobile industry, we can find tangible evidence that we are in a digital era. One major advancement that has become the background of other advancements is energy; both gas and electricity.

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In a world where 90% of homes are using one form of energy or another, there is a need for sustainability. Recently, most homeowners are getting hefty electricity bills from energy providers making their cost of living hike up higher than expected.

However, you have a friend in Alinta Energy who ensures you get electricity and gas at very affordable prices. Besides, they offer various discounts to enable you to save on their energy products. With all this, you may wonder where Alinta Energy offers their services?

Where Does Alinta Energy Offer their Services?

The various States in Australia are lucky to be receiving the great services offered by one of the most popular and largest electricity and gas providers by the name of Alinta Energy. They have been offering consistent quality services and products at very competitive prices making them them a leader among the giant companies. Currently, Alinta ranks as the 4 largest energy supplier across Australia.

Some of the regions in Australia that are lucky to have this energy provider around them include:

  • New South Wales
  • South Australia
  • Queensland
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia

According to Alinta Energy review, this supplier has been able to cater to the needs of over 800,000 homes across Australia with stable electricity at low costs. Besides, they have won the Mozo Experts Choice Awards for providing the best value in electricity in 2018. This is just the beginning, the supplier is set for more goodies to their customers which will see them rising to the top. But why has it experienced such tremendous growth?

Reasons for the Rising Alinta Energy

There are basically 4 major reasons why this supplier has risen greatly to the 4th position:

  1. Quality services

This is one of the major things that have attracted customers to themselves. In various states where they have offered electricity, they ensure there is no substandard installation hence their electricity has not caused fires. Their gas is free of impurities too.

  1. Competitive Prices

Most companies will offer competitive prices but reduce the quality of the product they are offering. Alinta Energy review will show you that they perform differently and are cheapest in Australia. They don’t compromise quality despite their low costs.

  1. They offer extras

It is hard to see an energy company giving away awards, grants, and discounts. Nevertheless, be prepared to be receiving awards and great discount plans for your electricity and gas. Although some States like Queensland have not got gas services, they can energy discounted electricity prices.

  1. Awesome Corporate Social Responsibilities

When it comes to giving back to society, then Alinta Energy becomes number one. Recently, they decided to join hands with Australian Men’s Cricket team as their main Principal Partner and in Cricket Australia as Platinum Partner. They have also given over $100,000 in donations where they have joined hands with the Salvation Army.

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Conclusion

You don’t have to pay high for your electricity and gas while this supplier is there for you. Any Alinta Energy review will also tell you that you can have free dinner, movies, and visit amusement parks courtesy of Alinta’s incentives and awards. Don’t wait any longer.

This is a collaborative guest post and the ideas and views expressed do not necessarily represent those of Mommy Ramblings.

 


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Child Proof: Parenting By Faith, Not Formula

If you browse self-help parenting books, you are sure to see titles like, 5 Easy Steps to this or 3 Weeks to that. Literally thousands of books promising you results if you follow a precise formula. Do they work? That is debatable, and given how many new titles join them each year it does not look favorable.

Author Julie Lowe, an experienced children and family counselor provides a different principle to her book, Child Proof. Child Proof is not a book about moving things out-of-the-way for your new baby but one that demonstrates how parenting with biblical wisdom is best for a pro,active rather than reactive approach to parenting.

Child Proof

Julie is an adoptive and foster mom who applies the CCEF model of biblical change, and uses Scripture and biblical wisdom to teach parents how to know their children and specifically love them with the love of Christ.  As a freedom-over-formula parenting book for parents of all ages, Child Proof provides biblical insight and encouragement for readers who want to parent by faith.

Every family is unique, which is why Child Proof explores the need for parents to cultivate personal and intimate care for their children as modeled in God’s individual, personal, and fatherly care to his children. This parenting book lays a foundation of parenting by faith and progresses by teaching parents how they can know their own children well and parent accordingly. By discussing particular issues parents might have in family life, Lowe demonstrates how parenting formulas aren’t the answer, and parenting with biblical wisdom is best for a proactive rather than reactive approach to parenting.

Through Lowe’s personal and professional experience, parents as well as those helping parents—pastors, counselors and counseling students, youth workers, and churches—will discover gospel-centered application rather than formulas for the ideal family, equipping parents to be experts at knowing their own children so they can know Scripture and live it out personally in their homes.

 

About the Author

Julie Lowe is a faculty member at CCEF. She holds an MA in counseling from Biblical Theological Seminary. She is a licensed professional counselor with over 18 years of counseling experience. Julie is also a registered play therapist and has developed a play therapy office at CCEF to better serve families, teens and children Julie and her husband, Greg, have six children and serve as foster and adoptive parents.

I received a copy of this book to facilitate my post. As always, my words and views are 100% my own.

 

 

 


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“My Magical Unicorn” Board Book Giveaway

Who says your days can’t be all unicorns and rainbows? Well, even if life throws you curveballs, you can escape with your child for a little while to a place that is beautiful with sparkles, and of course, a unicorn.

In this interactive unicorn novelty book, readers spin a wheel to animate the character on the front cover. Sparkly holographic foil creates a truly impressive effect as the unicorn’s horn, mane, and tail seem to flow with magical energy!

More interactive mechanisms are featured inside the book. Push, pull, spin, and slide your way through the unicorn’s enchanted land as she helps other magical creatures, clears away a rainy day, and plays with her unicorn friends. With gentle rhymes, bright colors, and a bit of sparkle and shine, this magical unicorn is sure to delight!

My Magical Unicorn will be available on February 12th but you can pre-order it now.

  • With their mystical appeal, unicorns continue to enchant and captivate young readers
  • Includes a special novelty and interactive element on every page, and sparkly holographic foil on the cover
  • Use of tactile elements not only invites the reader to participate in the stories, it also refines fine motor skills: readers can push, pull, spin, and slide their way through the unicorn’s enchanted land
  • My Magical Mermaid and My Magical Dragon will also be published as part of this adorable series for toddlers

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Save 25% on Any Package From Santa Program Now

You might remember we have blogged about Package From Santa in the past and how excited our son Luke was to get his package. He especially loved the card that had a special piece of Santa’s magic suit.

Package From Santa

This year we ordered a Silver Package From Santa and added the special card with the piece of Santa’s magic suit. We were able to go on the Package From Santa website and choose the type of letter we wanted.

Package From Santa

We chose the one that addressed doubt in belief. I was so happy we did because as our son, Ethan read it, he seemed really impressed and said that kids in school were saying that Santa was not real. This letter may have helped us keep that magic alive a little longer.

Package From Santa

Beyond the letter, there is a flight path that is personalized to where we live and a very nice photo of Santa in his sleigh. There is a special North Pole stamp on the envelope that adds another bit of credibility. There is even more! FREE! All-New 2018 Personalized Video, Phone Call, and Printable Nice List Guide with Every Package!

Package From Santa

You still have time to order your own. We have a Special Offer: Mommy Ramblings’ readers can Save 25% Off Any PackageFromSanta.com Program.  Use Promo Code FAM2060 at when you order HERE! 

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Japan Crate Unboxing & Giveaway – Experience Japan Through Candy

We have such a fun Holiday Gift Guide pick to share with you. Do you want to give a very different kind of gift this year? If so, how about a Japan Crate. A Japan Crate is a subscription box filled with all kinds of candy and treats from Japan. You can cancel at any time, so you are not obligated in any way.

We recently received a Japan Crate, and I would love you to check out our unboxing video below.

Each Premium Japan Crate now includes more items than ever!

– 18-20 full-size candy & snacks
– Japan-exclusive drink
– Monthly bonus item (from a bag of Japanese Kit Kats to collectibles)
– Manga-zine featuring translations, fun facts & more

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You will find Japan crate on our 2018 Holiday Gift Guide at Mommy Ramblings. For just $35 a month you can let someone experience Japan through candy. How sweet is that?

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