{"id":10027,"date":"2014-11-14T16:10:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=10027"},"modified":"2014-11-23T06:54:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T11:54:44","slug":"anticipating-holiday-fun-with-new-kinder-advent-calendars-and-a-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/anticipating-holiday-fun-with-new-kinder-advent-calendars-and-a-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Anticipating holiday fun with new KINDER advent calendars &#8211; and a giveaway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">W<\/span>e love advent calendars. We have so many of them! The boys always get a Lego advent calendar to share, and they take turns opening each day&#8217;s treat. We usually get each boy one of those inexpensive cardboard advent calendars with the chocolate that always seems to taste vaguely of soap. And we have a little wooden tree that sits on a set of 24 wee boxes, and each day you open up one of the boxes to reveal a decoration to hang on the wee knobs on the tree. I have a hard time resisting new advent calendars, and would love one day to do the kind of fun &#8220;activity per day&#8221; advent calendars Andrea <a href=\"http:\/\/quietfish.com\/notebook\/2007\/11\/easy-diy-advent-calendar-25-small-folded-paper-envelopes\/\">describes in this blog post.<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m super excited about a new advent calendar we&#8217;ll have for this year. No more soap-flavoured chocolates! This year, we&#8217;re getting a KINDER advent calendar. Sorry boys, you&#8217;re going to have to add Mom to your sharing rotation!<\/p>\n<p>And hooray, one of YOU will also be getting a KINDER advent calendar, if you win this fun Kinder Canada giveaway!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-15-at-3.27.08-PM-500x378.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"KINDER Canada prize pack\" width=\"500\" height=\"378\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10029\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-15-at-3.27.08-PM-500x378.png 500w, http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-15-at-3.27.08-PM.png 879w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The prize pack includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One KINDER\u00c2\u00ae Advent Calendar<\/li>\n<li>\nOne KINDER\u00c2\u00ae Hollow Santa with SURPRISE\u00c2\u00ae<\/li>\n<li>One KINDER\u00c2\u00ae SURPRISE\u00c2\u00ae 100g Christmas egg\t<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>    One KINDER\u00c2\u00ae SURPRISE\u00c2\u00ae MAXI 150g egg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Awesome, right? You want to win this one! Here&#8217;s the fine print:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>This is a giveaway for a KINDER gift basket, which includes an advent calendar, a hollow Santa with surprise, a KINDER Surprise Christmas egg, and a KINDER Surprise maxi egg. (Yum!) The approximate prize value is $32.<\/li>\n<li>To enter the giveaway, two steps are required. Please use the widget below and (a) visit the KINDER Facebook page and (b) leave a comment on this blog post telling me which holiday traditions you anticipate each year .<\/li>\n<li>ONE winner will be chosen at random from all entrants.<\/li>\n<li>This giveaway is open only to residents of Canada, excluding residents of Quebec. (sorry!)<\/li>\n<li>This giveaway will run until 11:59 pm EST on Saturday November 22, 2014.<\/li>\n<li>The contest winner will be required to provide a full name and complete mailing address to be shared with KINDER\u00c2\u00ae for shipping purposes.<\/li>\n<li>While you may enter as many of the KINDER\u00c2\u00ae contests as you like, you can only win once.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\nNow, let&#8217;s see if I can get this newfangled blog giveaway widget thing to work. (You kids and your modern contest widgets, I tell you. Back in my day, we used an Excel spreadsheet and counting on our fingers and toes to run a blog giveaway, and we liked it!)<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"rc-dcaa8a8e0\" class=\"rafl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/dcaa8a8e0\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">a Rafflecopter giveaway of a KINDER prize pack<\/a><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/widget.rafflecopter.com\/load.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And now, speaking of sweet, how cute is this? Have you heard of &#8220;unboxing&#8221; videos? I was a little sketchy on the idea, but the boys certainly knew what I was talking about when I mentioned them.  Here&#8217;s Simon, my little wanna-be YouTuber, in his UnBoxing debut!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dzAoPb4TsCg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a natural, isn&#8217;t he? That was our first and only take. Way to take one for the team, Simon! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edited to add: i<\/strong>f you really REALLY want to win that KINDER prize pack (and who could blame you?) the amazing<a href=\"http:\/\/idontblog.ca\/win-a-kinder-gift-basket\/\"> Alex has a list of all the participating blogs in this giveaway in her post<\/a> so you can do a little link hopping for extra entries. You can enter on as many blogs as you like, but you can only win once.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nDISCLOSURE: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a #KinderMom\/Maman\/Dad who is part of the KINDER\u00c2\u00ae Canada influencer team. As part of my affiliation with KINDER\u00c2\u00ae Canada, I am provided with special perks and products. All thoughts and opinions are my own.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love advent calendars. We have so many of them! The boys always get a Lego advent calendar to share, and they take turns opening each day&#8217;s treat. We usually get each boy one of those inexpensive cardboard advent calendars with the chocolate that always seems to taste vaguely of soap. And we have a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/anticipating-holiday-fun-with-new-kinder-advent-calendars-and-a-giveaway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anticipating holiday fun with new KINDER advent calendars &#8211; and a giveaway!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10027"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10076,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027\/revisions\/10076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}