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Let’s Start Coding: A Timberdoodle Review
This is a sponsored post. I received this item from Timberdoodle in exchange for an honest review. These thoughts and these words and these opinions are, as always on this page and in real and regular life, all completely and totally my own. _____________________________ Every homeschooling family I’ve ever met has a “speciality”, if you know what I mean. While some magical folks excel in ALL THE THINGS (and therefore cannot be my close friends – kidding, kidding) most of us have a certain knack for one subject more than another. Or love for one field over another. Maybe it’s all about the music in your house. Violins and cellos and guitars…
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Needle Felting: A Timberdoodle Review
This is a sponsored post. I received this item from Timberdoodle in exchange for an honest review. These thoughts and these words and these opinions are, as always on this page and in real and regular life, all completely and totally my own. ______________________________ I’m in love with this kit. I won’t try to set you up for a pitch or a build up. I’ll just start out right with the truth. This has been one of the best Timberdoodle items we have received. Everyone wanted to try it, but Piper was the lucky winner this go round. This is a complete, everything-included, Needle Felting Kit. Literally the perfect read aloud activity.…
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Plus-Plus: One of our Favorites from Timberdoodle
This is a sponsored post. I received this item from Timberdoodle in exchange for an honest review. These thoughts and these words and these opinions are, as always on this page and in real and regular life, all completely and totally my own. ________________________________________ I guess I gave this one away with the title. But, to me, Plus-Plus is a lot like Legos – what on earth is there not to love? And in our house – we LOVE Plus-Plus. They’re just so versatile and fun. They are the nearly perfect occupation for playing quietly while listening to our nightly novel. Much quieter than Legos. Any age can be entertained by their…
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Film Making Class: A Timberdoodle Review
This is a sponsored post. I received this item from Timberdoodle in exchange for an honest review. These thoughts and these words and these opinions are, as always on this page and in real and regular life, all completely and totally my own. ________________________________________ Until now, I’ve never tried to count how many years I have been working with Timberdoodle, writing reviews for products, trying out new books or curriculum or projects. A quick blog search reminds me our relationship started in 2016! (And goodness, what a fortunate friendship we have formed over the years.) You can see a whole host of my reviews here and here and there and right here…
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Cognitive Drawing: A Timberdoodle Review
This is a sponsored post. I received this item from Timberdoodle in exchange for an honest review. These thoughts and these words and these opinions are, as always on this page and in real and regular life, all completely and totally my own. __________________________________________ I have a lot of artistic kids. And figuring out ways to manage their interests and increase their abilities and provide practice for their skills has been a formidable challenge over the years. We’ve done in person classes – which I prefer – and we’ve experimented with online courses and we’ve checked out library books and tapped into whatever else seemed to work at the time,…
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Scrunch Map: A Timberdoodle Review
This is a review post. Timberdoodle graciously sent me a free product in exchange for a review. A review that is always my own, honest and hopefully helpful. _________________________________________ If it says map, I’m probably interested. I like maps. Of any kind. For as long as I can remember, this has been true. I loved the gigantic car Road Atlas my dad kept in our maroon station wagon. I used to pick up every free map available from the rest stops on road trips. I love spreading them out over a table, mapping my route by tracing my finger across the roads. I like looking at the options and thinking about short…
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Q Bitz Solo: A Timberdoodle Review
This is a review post. Timberdoodle graciously sent me a free product in exchange for a review. A review that is always my own, honest and hopefully helpful. _________________________________________ Not everyone in my home loves games as much as Otto and I do. (This is a genetic tragedy I am still trying to get over.) (He and I have been playing Monopoly Deal steadily since Christmas. We’ve kept a running tab and so far he has beat me 34 times.) Because of this flaw in our family dynamic, often I look for games that can be played both with siblings or solo. Q Bitz fits that bill. (I mean, it…
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U.S. 4D Map Puzzle: A Timberdoodle Review
_____________________________________________ This is a review post. Timberdoodle graciously sent me a free product in exchange for a review. A review that is always my own, honest and truthful, and hopefully helpful. _____________________________________________ Every March a homeschool conference takes place in our town. People drive from miles away, they stay for several days, they attend lectures and listen to experts and shop for new school curriculum and seek out advice and opinions and new ideas for their own homeschools. This annual event happened just last week. Although I didn’t attend the actual conference this year, I did head over to the exhibit hall for the free evening of perusing the curriculum…
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Thinking Putty: A Timberdoodle Review
This is a sponsored post. I received this item from Timberdoodle in exchange for an honest review. These thoughts and words and opinions are, as always on this page and in real and regular life, all completely and totally my own. __________________________________ You’ve probably heard of this before – thinking putty. It’s like a new take on Silly Putty. Except, it’s better. I think we first found some years ago at a little toy store in Hendersonville. The thinking putty is stretchy and forms easily into shapes. It’s actually a great tool to have on hand for kids who are easily distracted. It’s quiet and they can stretch it and…
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my social dilemma
These kids I live with always want to watch movies. Always. But the movies they choose are primarily veneer, shiny, high dollar sort of films. On their own, it seems they seldom click the documentaries, the historical films, the movies that grow their empathy or their understanding. So I started a family movie night (weekly-ish) where the movies are all entirely chosen by ME. (I have a list. Of course I do. And I’m just working my way right through it.) Last night the list got a new contender and I bumped The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind in favor of The Social Dilemma. (Don’t worry – we’ll make our…
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Wile E. Coyote Science: A Timberdoodle Review
This is a sponsored post. I received this item from Timberdoodle in exchange for an honest review. These thoughts and words and opinions are, as always on this page and in real and regular life, all completely and totally my own. _________________________________ Everyone’s a homeschooler! Wheeeeeee! It’s a weird world, am I right? I’m not making light of our current world situation. But in my life I’ve never coped with any hard thing without a certain touch of levity. (It’s how I manage.) So you and your friend and your neighbor and the people who never thought they’d give it a try are homeschooling this year. Even if you aren’t…
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Songs for Singin’: A Long Winded Okee Dokee Brothers Review & Tribute
Turns out, when I search my own past blog posts for the Okee Dokee Brothers, that these fellas we don’t actually know are woven quite heavily in and out of the fabric of our lives over the past several years. Pretty certain it was my friend Jo who first told us about two guys who sang fun songs and had made a video and it was available on Netflix (maybe that’s right?) and we should watch it. That first introduction was when Justin and Joe spent a couple months on the Mississippi River filming a documentary and making an album entitled Can You Canoe? We were hooked immediately. The kids…
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When Buying Local Is So Cute
Hi. My name is Lacey and I love earrings. This isn’t new information. I just love cute earrings. And lately, I love cute leather earrings – the bigger, the better. I also love supporting local businesses owned by friends, mothers, fathers. Businesses where the art happens at the kitchen table or in an office turned sewing room. You name it. Just places were real life is happening. My friend Jen creates darling leather earrings – all sorts of styles and shapes. And they’re lovely. They’re light – so you can wear giant ones and not feel them at all. And, if you aren’t into the excessively large earrings, she also…
