For the second year in a row Mommy Kat and Kids is participating in The Great Canadian Blog Bash! I love this chance to meet new Canadian bloggers and reconnect with some of my best bloggy friends right before Canada Day!
If you’re a newcomer to my site, welcome! My name is Kathryn and I am the energetic and cheerful owner, editor and head writer here at Mommy Kat and Kids. I was born and raised in a small town on the Saskatchewan prairies and while life in a small town has its ups and downs, overall Lumsden is a pretty wonderful place to live. Of course, the gorgeous scenery we have down here in the Qu’Appelle Valley doesn’t hurt either!
Did you know that Saskatchewan was once a part of the Northwest Territories? And it was originally settled when the Queen offered free land to anyone that would come and farm on the prairies. People came from all over Europe, the United States and other parts of Canada to claim their “free land” and Saskatchewan has a very diverse ethnic background as a result. Saskatchewan is also a province of viciously cold winters and absurdly hot summers and I sometimes think back on the first founders of my province with pride because to live here, a person would have to either be impossibly stubborn or a little bit crazy. And both of those probably describe me pretty well!
But that’s enough about me; we’re hopping, after all! And no party is complete without prizes, so the fabulous Ashley Picco, a fellow blogger and Norwex consultant, is offering one lucky Mommy Kat and Kids reader a Norwex Kitchen Package prize pack worth $59! This package contains one All Purpose Kitchen Cloth, one Tea Towel Set, one SpiriSponge Two-Pack, one Mighty Mesh Pot Scrubber and one bottle of Dishwashing Liquid. You’ll love being able to get your dishes so clean without harmful chemicals!
So enter to win and then hop, hop away! With over $1800 in prizes to be won and tons of amazing Canadian blogs to discover, it’s going to be a busy, fun-filled week! Thanks so much for stopping by!
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Ontario is huge! More than 1,000,000 square kilometres. This is more than the countries of France and Spain combined. It stretches 1,730 kilometres from north to south and 1,680 km from east to west.
Would love to win this prize and Manitoba is a great province to come to the Ex in Winnipeg and other festivals like the Corn & Apple in Morden and the Harvest Festival in Winkler in the month of August.
the worlds largest octopus, scallop and sea star are found in B.C’s ocean waters
My province, BC, hosted the vancouver olympics in 2010.
I agree with Elaine, BC has hosted the 2010 Olympics, we also have a small market in Coombs, with goats on roof.. popular tourist attraction
Alberta has a population of 3,645,257 in 2011
Did you know that sardine cans and snow blowers were invented in New Brunswick?
BC is my province and it is filled with wonderful mountains scenery and wilderness.The people are warm and caring and we have hosted the Olympics .Its Beautiful Britsh Columbia!
Let’s win it !
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I loved the kids mop package, my kids always want to sweep and mop with me.
Ontario has Niagara Falls
I’m from Ontario, and our official bird is the loon
we always say EH!!!!
i like that norwex “clean without chemicals and it has served more than 20,000 consultants world-wide.
BC has the longest frost-free periods in Canada due mostly to mild temperatures related with its maritime climate, with flowers often blooming as early as February in the southwestern region of the province. BC has overall the hottest summers and the mildest winters in all of Canada.
We live in Victoria and we rarely get snow, only when we are lucky lol
thanks
We’ve got everything all at once here – snow, sun, rain, forest, mountains, grasslands. Great place to be. Thanks
Norwex doesn’t use harsh chemicals to do the job – always a good thing.
I like the makeup remover cloth.
Alberta was a setting in a nancy drew pc game
In BC you can go snow skiing and water skiing in the same day.
Ontario is more than 4 times the size of the UK:)
I also learned that Ashley Picco is from Ontario which is great because I need a Norwex consultant!!
an interesting fact about alberta is if you live in the city of lloydminster, you may not be an albertan as the the city is half in alberta and half in saskatchewan.
BC has the only desert in Canada
BC joined Confederation in 1871.
I learned and liked that microfiber cloths are environmentally friendly. I learned they may reduce the consumption of cleaning chemicals in your home up to 90% while at the same time reducing your exposure to toxic fumes
My home province is home to the “Horsehoe Falls” that people seem to refer to as “Niagara Falls” lol
i AM FROM BC and the coolest fun thing is
The first report of Ogopogo, the Sea Serpent of Okanagan Lake, was in 1872, pre-dating recorded sightings of the Loch Ness Monster by more than 60 years. He was known as N’HA-A-ITK or ‘Lake Demon’ to the Okanagan First Nations people who drew him on pictographs and made sacrafices to him.
Ontario is great! So many beaches, so close to us, we house the Nation’s Capital, and we have Niagara Falls! How great is that!!!
I liked the Mattress Cleaner I have never heard of that before
In Manitoba, about an hour northwest of Winnipeg, we have the Narcisse Snake Dens. There are many thousands of red-sided garter snakes. If you come in September, you will see more snakes than you’ve probably ever seen at one time migrating back to their dens. These snakes are harmless. Check this out: http://www.cbc.ca/sevenwonders/wonder_narcisse_snake_dens.html
First I’ve ssen of these products.
Ontario is more than 1/10th the size of Canada!
I love how Norwex allows the opportunity for chemical free cleaning with just a cloth and water!
York, PA close to PA Dutch Country!
Everything looks great but I love microfiber cloths!
Norwex rocks! And Ontario is the only province that starts and ends with the letter “O”. It is also Canada’s largest producer of fruits, vegetables and other agricultural products!! I heart Ontario!
I am from Ontario home to the largest city in the country,Toronto,oh,and the Ti-cats are going to take the Grey Cup this year!
I am from Newfoundland, There are no snakes, skunks or poison ivy in Newfoundland
Norwex has more than 20,000 consultants worldwide.
Ontario is clean and fun and we just love living here!!
i would love to try their micro fibre cloths!
The word “hoser” originated in Saskatchewan, where it referred derisively to a person low enough to steal gasoline by siphoning it with a hose from someone’s else tank! LOL!
Winnipeg (my hometown) has been the “Slurpee Capital of the World” for six years in a row, for consuming 400,000 slurpies per month
The Big Nickel located in Sudbury is the world’s largest coin. It is a giant reproduction of a 1951 Canadian nickel, measuring 9 meters (30 feet) in diameter.
Alberta: home of the giant perogy,sausage,beaver and bee. (just to name a few)
We have Jeanne’s Bakery which is a legend! lol And Alicia’s Perogies, too…John Candy actually had them flown to where he was! True story!
Norwex “clean without chemicals” was birthed in Norway in 1994, soon after microfiber was first manufactured in Sweden.
Winnie the Pooh was named after the city of Winnipeg, by a Canadian Lieutenant in the Fort Garry Horse Militia who purchased Winnipeg Bear, shortened to Winnie the Pooh, from a hunter in 1914.
Nova Scotia Entered Confederation in July 1, 1867 and at the time was the wealthiest province