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Review

Eva Reviews It! – My Meaningful Life Journal

My Meaningful Life

Peaceable Kingdom gave us a copy of their My Meaningful Life Journal for free. Opinions of it are 100% our own.

Based on my daughter’s reaction to receiving it, this is a great journal for kids. There are so many fun activities to do inside for kids to discover more about themselves. The journal is all hers and it is a way for her to explore and express all of her personal innermost feelings, both the good and not so good. It also has activities for her to do to make her laugh when she may be feeling down. The journal is for ages 4 and up but I think it works better for older kids who are able to write things themselves and who are just starting to discover their own ways of self-expression.

This year has had its ups and downs by way of emotions for Eva. She is a deep thinking, a thought processor and she feels things on such a personal level. She’s had some moments with friendships that have kept her (and us) up at night. Luckily, Eva and Allison went to a Mom and Me empowerment program and through it they started using a shared journal. Eva can write in that journal (different than the My Meaningful Life one) and leave it on Allison’s pillow when there are things that she wants to talk about. Eva takes time to process things and she does so often through writing. This shared journal has shed light on much this year. I hope that they continue to use it together and Eva continues to use the My Meaningful Life Journal as well.

Now that Eva has been using the My Meaningful Life Journal for several weeks I know that it has made an impact. There are some great activities inside and she is one to work through all of them. Using this journal will encourage her (on top of the encouragement she receives from us) to more self-expression and self-discovery.

The My Meaningful Life journal is $15.99 and can be found at http://www.peaceablekingdom.com/product-detail/my-meaningful-life. There are also a bunch of other guided journals for kids including some for them to take to Summer Camp.

Family, LEGO, Photo-A-Day

Andrew’s Graduation Gift: A Trip to the LEGO Store!

Chilling at the LEGO Store
Photo-A-Day #4447

On the day after Andrew’s Graduation I took him to the LEGO Store for his Graduation gift. He got some money from family and Allison and I got him some for a full experience at the store. That meant, building Minifigs, picking out a decent sized set, filling a Pick a Brick container (with lots of my help so he got lots of bricks). He was even sweet enough to think of his sister and we got her a special couple of things. You can see everything in the video below.

We spent about an hour and a half at the store and I filmed much of the time, little snippets and such. Afterwards I took him to Fire and Ice for lunch. He made a meatballs and hot dogs spaghetti concoction. I thought that he was going to get the hot dog as one in a bun separately but he is inconsistent on whether or not he’s going to have a bun. You never know. I had some shaved steak and chicken plus a bunch of sauces, mushrooms and some pasta. We finished off with a bacon cheeseburger that we split. It was a very tasty lunch.

We drove back to the house and I was hoping that he was tired enough that he would pass out asleep but no such luck. He stayed awake and then I had to try and convince him to go to sleep. He fought it but once he crawled in bed with me he was out in two minutes. I think he was still arguing me.

We went to karate and he was pretty good. Got into a little stand your ground moment with another kid while in his sparring gear but otherwise he did okay. I had him apologize to Mr. Jacob for his behaviour last week. We’re slowly getting it through to him that certain things are disrespectful and not at all funny. I hope he learns more quickly since he is going to start training with a Bo Staff after his next belt. A purple belt that he should earn by next Friday. I’m not sure if any of us are ready for this.

We returned home and had dinner. The kids then made their BrickHeadz sets. Andrew had Hulk and Eva, Belle. These are growing on me.