Category Archives: review

Dr. Mom Otoscope Review and Giveaway

If you have read my blog much, you know I like to stay as natural as possible with cleaners and such, but I also like to keep our medicines on the natural side.  We have had our share of ear infections.  Our two oldest, before I learned about nature ways to help clear an ear…

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Family Movie Night~A Mile in His Shoes and Giveaway

From the director of “Angels In the Outfield” comes an inspiring story about a special boy with an amazing gift, and the coach who believed. Dean Cain and Luke Schroder star in the gmc movie based on the book “The Legend of Mickey Tussler”. Only a miracle can help baseball coach Arthur “Murph” Murphy (Dean…

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Pitsco Model Kits Review

Do you have a son who loves to put things together?  Does he like models?  Well, then Pitsco Education probably has something for you.  Our family just had the joy of putting together these two projects which included a wonderful book. Siege Machines book, the Catapult kit, and the Trebuchet kit and weights ($21.95) From…

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The Reading Game Review

The Reading Game is a fast-action memory card game. It includes a series of six beautifully illustrated storybooks. The Cards & Books work together to make learning to read exciting and enjoyable.  Game sessions are fun-filled with a winner every few seconds.  After completing the first memory card game, the student has thirty words “hardwired”…

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Time Timer Review

Wow, seems some people seem to think I need help staying on track…have they been watching me while I am working in Photoshop? Well, probably not, but, I do tend to get distracted, and Time Timer $30 has helped some.  But, I believe any old timer could help. This is a neat little timer, that…

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Home Educating Family’s On the Go Planner~ My brain on in a book!~Giveaway 3 Winners!!

I am not naturally organized.  In fact, even when I try really hard I am not really organized.  I have great ideas, and I mean well, but, in reality, I am just not an organized person…or am I?  In fact, I have made wonderful forms that keep my older children organized in their homeschool lesson…

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The Learning Parent Giveaway~Uncle Rick Reads the Proverbs

Proverbs is one of those books, I wished I had memorized verbatim, however I don’t and I want to change that for my children.  That is one reason I recommend Uncle Rick Reads the Proverbs to all my friends.  Your children can listen to this Five hour reading and explanation of Proverbs from Chapter one…

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Raising Real Men, Surviving, Teaching and Appreciating Boys~Review

As an only child and a woman, sometime raising my three boys leaves my head spinning.  I wasn’t around boys much when growing up, well, I was but, not this much, and well, it was different.  I actually got along better with the boys, but raising them?  You mean they should be having a wrestling…

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Ooka Island~A Computer Phonics Adventure for Younger Children

Do you have young children who want to do school on the computer like their older siblings? What about a child that ready to learn the sounds and letters, but doesn’t’ have the fine motor skills for writing? Ooka Island is a computer based phonics program that will help your children gain computer and readiness…

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