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The Latest YouTube Videos on Fun Playtime Reviews

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This is a Huge Iron Man Play Doh Surprise Egg - Avengers Age of Ultron - with Surprise Toys! #avengers #ironman

I’m a little behind in sharing our latest video uploads to Fun Playtime Reviews, so I’m going to get caught up in this post and share our last seven videos. πŸ˜‰

But before I get to the videos, here are a few YouTube-related things I’ve observed:

  1. Similar to blogs, YouTube channels with very specific niches can do really well in a relatively short amount of time.
  2. When you see an ad on a YouTube video, the person who created that specific video may or may not be getting the money that ad generates. For example, there’s an ad on this Fantasmic! video that we filmed at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, but we’re not receiving any money from it because the music that’s played during the Fantasmic! show is copyrighted. I’m guessing YouTube is sending that ad money to the copyright holders. Oh, and we have no control over the ad and can’t remove it.
  3. YouTube seems to show love to channels that upload often, and from what I’ve read, uploading videos anywhere from one to four times per week is ideal.

Now, here are the latest Fun Playtime Reviews:

Hobbit Plush Adventures Episode 1

Huge Iron Man Play Doh Surprise Egg – Avengers Age of Ultron – with Surprise Toys

Marvel Play Doh CAN HEADS Smashdown Hulk featuring Iron Man

Disney FROZEN MagiClip Elsa and Anna Dolls

miWorld Mrs. Fields Cookie Shop

Little People Disney Princess Klip Klop Belle

7 Disney Princess MagiClip Collection with Tiana, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, Cinderella, and more!

About once a week, here on The Sensible Mom, I write a weekly wrap-up post to share the videos we’ve uploaded since our last update. Please feel free to subscribe to our channel to stay even more up-to-date.


Family Time at the Chicago White Sox Game and a Big RITZ Crackers GIVEAWAY! (VLOG)

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Thanks so much to RITZ for offering such a fabulous giveaway to my YouTube subscribers!

In the vlog I’m sharing today, we head to the Chicago White Sox game for the hospital’s Annual Celebrate Life Transplant Party! AND I include a giveaway where one of my YouTube subscribers will WIN 24 PACKS OF BIG RITZ CRACKERS!

Yes, you read that right – 24 packs of Big RITZ! πŸ™‚

There are only two requirements to enter the giveaway:

1. You must be a subscriber to my YouTube channel.
2. You must leave a comment under this video ON YOUTUBE ( πŸ™‚ ) letting me know that you want to be entered to win OR how you (and/or your family) like to enjoy RITZ crackers.

I'm sharing a giveaway where one of my YouTube subscribers will WIN 24 PACKS OF BIG RITZ CRACKERS! Ends 5/1/15

**This giveaway will run from now until May 1, 2015 at 12:00am. The giveaway is open to U.S. Residents only, ages 18 years old and above. The winner will be randomly chosen. I will promptly send the winner an email notifying them that they’ve won, and the winner must respond within 48hrs. of the giveaway’s end. Otherwise, I will have to draw a new winner.**

By the way, we had a wonderful time at the White Sox game, even though we’re really Cubs fans. πŸ˜‰


A Blogger’s Version of Take Your Kids to Work Day and Dinner at Olive Garden (Blessed Seven Vlog)

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I worked in collaboration with Olive Garden on this blog post and vlog.

A Blogger's Version of Take Your Kids to Work Day and Dinner at Olive Garden (Vlog)

I love being a blogger.

It’s the job I never knew I wanted until I started my very first blog in 2009. Since then, blogging has changed and will continue to change. But one thing is for sure: as long as I have a computer, a camera, and an internet connection, I’m going to keep on doing what I love. πŸ™‚

And the best part?

I get to work from home and be around my children. My two oldest kids, Nathan and Breanna, actually help me with small blogging tasks from time to time, and I pay them for their work. I do that for two reasons:

  1. They want to earn money.
  2. The internet isn’t going anywhere and learning different aspects of working online is important these days.

Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day

Now Take Your Kids to Work Day was last Thursday, April 23rd, and while I sort of ‘take my kids to work’ with me on a regular basis, we still observed this day together and ended it with a fun family meal at our local Olive Garden restaurant.

A Blogger's Version of Take Your Kids to Work Day and Dinner at Olive Garden (Vlog)

You can see what this day looked like here:

Did you take your kids to work with you on April 23rd?