Thursday, December 1, 2011

Toydle ~ An AWESOME Gift Idea (and a Giveaway)!

Do your kids like to build forts? Mine do. They will build forts out of ANYTHING (including stuff they are not supposed to use). While this is a great creative activity, it is usually unsafe! Chairs on beds, blankets hanging on everything, you get the point. Well, let me introduce you to Toydle. {Make sure you read to the end for the GIVEAWAY details!}

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Toydle is an American Company (Boise, Idaho) that makes and sells quality forts (see photo).
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They have two forts: The Toydle Fort (shown above) for $149 and The BIG Toydle Fort for $229.99 (click here to order).

From the Toydle website:
All Toydle Forts are constructed with
  • Hand made wooden blocks 3” sq. made with high quality, laminated poplar.
  • High Quality PVC tubes 29” long & 1/2in wide.
All Toydle Forts include an industrial strength storage bag.
All Toydle Forts include clips to help secure your sheets and blankets.
Our Forts are the strongest, longest lasting, and highest quality forts you will find anywhere! And we’ll back that up with an Unlimited Warrantee! No one else even comes close to what we offer! 


Now on to the really good stuff! 

First, make sure you come back in January and read about my family's experience with our Toydle Fort (yep, we are blessed to be able to review it for you)! 

Second, click the link below to be taken to The Old Schoolhouse Homeschool Crew Page to enter for your chance to WIN one of THREE BIG forts being given away!  Also, be sure to check out Toydle's Blog and Facebook page!

Click here to enter to win!
 {NOTE: This contest is open to residents of the US ONLY. TOS Staff and TOS Crew Members (and their families) are NOT eligible to enter this contest.} 

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Brag Time Thursday ~ Linky


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Come link up your Homeschool related posts to 'brag' about the great things you and your kids are doing! Browse around and see what others are up to as well!
(Please link up the direct URL of the post you are 'bragging' about!)
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to display in your post or on your blog so others can join in the fun as well!
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Brag Time Thursday ~ NaNoWriMo Winners!


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Unicorn and Ladybug both WON NaNoWriMo for the 2nd year in a row! This year their goals were DOUBLE what they were last year!

Unicorn
Goal: 10,000
Actual: 12,566
Title: The Continuing Adventures of Sunshine and Moonlight

Ladybug
Goal: 1,000
Actual: 1,057
Title: The Adventures of Holly, Molly and Katie

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Workbox Wednesday ~ Linky


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Today the girls are finishing up NaNoWriMo (come back tomorrow for Brag Time Thursday to see how they did). Unicorn is also continuing to work on her Math (Teaching Textbooks 4) and Ladybug is working on her Reading (Reading Eggs, Ooka Island and First Start Reading). Monkey is just chillin' "reading" books and watching educational videos. 
Tomorrow we start Discover Christmas. 

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Gratitude Challenge ~ Day 30



Today I am Grateful for this Challenge and that it is over. It was fun, thought provoking and much needed  however, remembering to post EVERYDAY is a little much for me!  :) Thanks for the Challenge Brenda!
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Terrific Tuesday ~ MyMemories

Here it is! Another freebie courtesy of MyMemories! Don't have their fabulous software (they just came out with Version 3)? Purchase it and save $10 using this code STMMMS80543. With the code you also get a $10 coupon for the MyMemories Store!
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Gratitude Challenge ~ Day 29



Today I am Grateful for daily Quiet Time. This is the time of day that my children are supposed to go to their rooms and read and/or play quietly for a couple hours. This allows me time to regroup and/or catch up from the mornings activities.
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