• Simple Tips For Home-Schooling During The Pandemic

    Just as adults have started to work from home, some children are being forced to learn from home. This is not something they will be used to at all, as you can imagine. However, you have a perfect opportunity to be a part of their educational development and help them to understand core concepts that feature in their curriculum. Something about being in the heart of your child’s education and helping them to understand and learn about the world should send tingles up anyone’s spine. But how do you help them learn in an environment which they’re not used to learning in, and how do you adjust to the new…

  • Pens

    Writing! Writing! A Joy With Pilot Pens!!

    Y’all know I have a real addiction to pens.  Yes, pens; those lovely instruments that put ink on paper. Those instruments that write love songs, create moving novels or in my case keep my calendar up to date.  I’m probably the real reason that pens are on chains or have huge flowers attached to them. Yup, the pen whisperer! They just follow me home! HONEST!! Shoplet (don’t forget to use your Rakuten account. 2% back!) and Pilot Pens graciously sent me several packages of pens that I can’t wait to tell you about!! Let’s start with the Acroball Pro Hybrid Pens This is not just a good-looking pen, but the…

  • Marble Mania Crankster little girl playing with marble mania crankster toy

    Techno Gears Marble Mania Crankster #learningjourney

    Alice and I were so excited to get our The Learning Journey Techno Gears Marble Mania Crankster Building Kit!! We pulled everything out of the box along with very detailed instructions are several bags of parts. I was impressed with the way the pieces are packaged together making it easy to find the correct pieces when called out in the instructions. There are over 100 pieces in the Marble Mania Techno Gears Crankster set. With the help of one very adorable 4 year old I realized I was in over my head and called in the help of Pop-Pop. While kids that are 6 and over would be able to…

  • Barker Creek!! Early Learning and Beyond!!! Give AWAY TOO!!!

    I’m so excited about today’s review!  My regular followers know that I babysit 2 year old Alice during the week. We play A LOT… but I also make sure we practice our colors, our letters, numbers and so on.  She’s really smart!! So I want to keep challenging her. THANK YOU Barker Creek for helping me do just that!!! Alice and I are excited to share with you our review of Learning Magnets Red Kid Board and Learning Magnet’s High Frequency Words The two products are so perfect together!!  First, the Kid Board is the coolest shade of red! It’s the perfect size too! Alice can set the Kid Board on her…