CVS Photo Gifts ~ Our 2016 Family Vacation Hardcover Photo Album

  Thank you to CVS Photo for providing me with product, free of charge, in exchange for this honest blog review.  All opinions are 100% my own. Life is full of memorable events and it's so much fun to capture those on photo and relive over time.  I recently realized how important a photo can be as I just lost one of my dear friends this past week to colon cancer.  She was always taking photos and catching those special moments so when searching for pictures of her for the memorial slide Read more [...]

MindWare Wild Ways Stacking Wooden Animals Review and Giveaway (5/18)

By Lakota

May 1st, 2016
Thank you to MindWare for providing me Product in exchange for review purposes all opinions belong to myself.  It's incredible the amount of skills that can be obtained just from building with blocks. Blocks are an essential piece to every preschool or kindergarten class room for that very reason. Simple shaped blocks are great for beginners and intermediates but that isn't to say that they can't get boring sometimes. My children go back and forth between loving block building and being really Read more [...]

MindWare Thumpin’ Thingdoodles Game review and Giveaway (5/18)

By Lakota

May 1st, 2016
Thank you to MindWare for providing me with product in exchange for review all opinions belong to me.  What kid doesn't love to thump around and whack things? I know that my children love any chance they have to be rough with things and know that they wont break. MindWare's Thumpin' Thingdoodles Game is no exception to this rule. My kids were so enthusiastic about using the foam mallets to thump the thing doodles! Im not sure they believed us at first that they could really whack them. Thumpin' Read more [...]

MindWare Paint Your Own Porcelain Flower Pots Review and Giveaway (5/18)

By Lakota

May 1st, 2016
Thank you to MindWare for providing me product in exchange for review all opinions are mine.  I think all kids love to create things. I think it's very important that they get the chance to create often from any age, whether thats paper crafts or more long term stable crafts. As a young child creating was such staple to who I was and still is today. My kids seem to following in a similar pattern. My son (aged 4) loves to color, paint, cut, glue, glitter and everything in between. He can certainly Read more [...]

Vacation Tips When Traveling With Kids

  Thank you to Sprouting Threads for providing me with their clothing subscription, free of charge, in exchange for this blog post.  All opinions are 100% my own. We have recently returned from a Spring Break Family Vacation that included 17 of us, of which, 9 were children.  Thankfully, all went well and we had a fantastic time and now I wanted to share some Traveling Tips with you.   PACK SMART & PACK LIGHT:  With 7 of us in our immediate family, we only used 5 rolling luggage Read more [...]