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  • Watch This With Your Kids – The Jensen Project

    Thursday, July 15th, 2010

    This Friday, July 16th, Walmart and Proctor & Gamble premiere their second made -for-TV family movie collaboration with “The Jensen Project”.  Walmart and P&G previously collaborated on “Secrets of the Mountain”, which aired in April and was watched by more than 7 and a half million people!  Since I previously reviewed “Secrets of the Mountain” and we really enjoyed both the movie and the soundtrack, I agreed to tell Table for Five readers about “The Jensen Project”. I’m hoping to be able to do a giveaway as well; I’ll let you know if that works out!

    Airing from 8-10 pm EST on July 16th 2010 on NBC, “The Jensen Project” stars Kellie Martin (“Life Goes On”), LeVar Burton (“Star Trek” and “Reading Rainbow”), Patricia Richardson (“Home Improvement”), TV series regular Brady Smith, Alyssa Diaz (“Southland”) and a young Canadian TV actor named Justin Kelly. The soundtrack was produced by Randy Jackson of American Idol and features Idol winner Jordin Sparks, Idol contestant Brooke White and Alisan, Ilsey & Jordan.

    The title of the movie refers to a secret community of geniuses who conduct research to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. After a 16 year absence, Claire and Matt Thompson (Martin and Smith) return to The Jensen Project along with their teenage son Brody (Kelly), and end up in a race to save potentially dangerous technology from falling into the wrong hands.  Although I’ve only seen the trailer, I can assume that the Thompsons will have to trust each other, work together, and be brave in the face of danger. Here’s the trailer:

    “The Jensen Project” DVD and soundtrack will be sold together in a bonus pack exclusively at Walmart starting Saturday, July 17. You can also buy the “Secrets of the Mountain” DVD and CD at Walmart. I can vouch for the soundtrack of that movie being great for both Moms and kids to listen to :)   For more information on “The Jensen Project”, visit www.thejensenproject.com.  I’ll be watching it with my kids this Friday night!

    disclosure: I received a screener disc so I could familiarize myself with this movie before writing this post. I will also be receiving the

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  • Baked Penne and my husband’s smiling face

    Friday, March 26th, 2010

    Even though Chris is managing a super-stressful project at work, and often has hours more work to do on his computer when he gets home (which is an hour or more commute depending on traffic), he takes care of me and the kids without any sort of complaint. He often stops on the way home for dinner stuff, helps Nathan with homework, gives Kaitlyn a bath and gets her in bed, and did I mention the laundry?  Chris designated himself the Chief laundry-doer, and at least twice a week, stays up late after everyone else is in bed to fold baskets of laundry. He sorts it all out by family member and leaves it in neat piles for me to put away in the morning. I might be the stay at home Mom, but it’s really him who keeps things running smoothly around here.

    Which is why it makes me so happy when something I do puts a smile on his face.  The other night for dinner, I made the Baked Penne recipe from The Stocked Kitchen, a cookbook/cooking system I picked up at the Home & Housewares Show in Chicago.  The recipe is very similar to what my Mom called goulash – ground beef cooked with onions, garlic and diced tomatoes (this recipe uses fresh basil as well), mixed with cooked penne (my Mom used macaroni). Then, it gets topped with a whole lot of mozzarella cheese and baked in the oven until it’s ooey gooey (yes, that’s an official cooking term!)

    It smelled so good that while he was helping me pour the meat/pasta mixture into a baking dish, Chris grabbed a small bowl and scooped some in, then sprinkled some shredded mozzarella on it and popped it in the microwave to melt.  This is what the bowl he microwaved looked like:

    And this was the look on his face while he was eating:

    For all the times he has a scowl on his face when he comes home from work, for all evenings when the exhaustion of working nonstop on this project is clearly showing on his face when he sits down at the dinner table, all the times he tells me he hasn’t had time to eat lunch at work for DAYS – this made me feel like I was helping.  It felt good to put a meal in front of him that he really liked and that made him smile.

    I love you, sweetie.

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