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Goals for 2009

Fri, 2 Jan 2009 10:28:00 -0600

Wow! I popped in to check out Amy's blog on Dandelion Seeds and when I went to leave a comment, realized that I haven't logged in to my blog in over a year! Oh my! Ok, well don't think I have been completely avoiding the blog world....I did have a blog on my own website and because of some issues, lost it all recently. I have been wanting to get back into blogging because it is fun and a great way to keep up with what we are doing. My mother in law likes to read my blogs too :) Even though we talk almost every day, sometimes I forget to tell her about some of the cute things that my kids do.....hey, I forget about a lot of things these days. Blogs are a fantastic way for me to look back on what we have done. SO on that note, let me share with you what I want to do this year.

My goals for 2009 are:

Finish my 2006 scrapbook

Blog regularly (at least once a week)

Help other women be the best that they can be......wife, mom, daughter, etc.

Spend more time with my mom.

Become more physically fit.

Thanks for sharing in my goals. I pray that you will do all that you want to do in 2009.

Be blessed!

The Discovery Toys Doodle Desk

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:48:00 -0500

Yesterday, the UPS man came. At our house, it is always like Christmas when he comes because most of the time, he is bringing TOYS! One of the benefits of being a Discovery Toys Rep! LOL My kids LOVE having a toy mommy!

Anyway, he brought in 9 boxes! In 3 of those boxes were my kids Doodle Desks. What is a Doodle Desk? It is this really sturdy cardboard desk that has pictures for the kids to color and places to add photos....kind of like a scrapbook, only a desk! Here is the description from Discovery Toys:

Looks like a desk, functions like a desk. Yet it’s SO much more! And fun! It’s a unique 3-D canvas upon which kids can draw, color, write …even paste things like a scrapbook! Children can showcase their creative skills and personal life stories with 4 “favorite” themed panels – People, Places, Things & Memories. As they select favorites to feature, they refine memory skills and learn how to make important choices. In the process, they explore and express their inner thoughts and feelings, likes and dislikes, achievements and challenges – critical for emotional and social development. Easy to assemble corrugate desk measures 23 ”h x 27 ”l x 19 ”w. Assembled stool measures 12 ”h x 13”l x 13”w. (58cm x 69cm x 48cm, 30cm x 32cm x 33cm) From 4 years and Up

When I first saw this at our Convention this year, I didn't think my kids would want them....but they did. After they came in yesterday, all 3 of them spent the entire afternoon working on coloring in the pre-drawn designs and talking about what pictures they were going to add to it! So, we now have 3 Doodle Desks! Here are the pictures of my children decorating their personal desks!

My daughter will be 13 next month and she loves it!

This son is 10.

And this one is 7.

Now they will have a very cool way to display their artwork and things that they do this school year!

See....my house really is a PLAY To Learn Home! Have a playful day everyone!

Fall Break

Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:29:00 -0500

Well, after only starting school 5 weeks ago, we decided to go ahead and take a fall break along with the public school kids. We were not going to but since I offered to keep the little girl that we used to watch, we decided to take a week off from school and get some other things done. So...here we are! On Fall Break!

I am not sure how much of a break I will get this week.

Today I am cleaning out my office.....again! I can't seem to keep it organized.

Tonight is my Discovery Toys TEAM meeting and since I am the TEAM Leader....I kinda have to be there! LOL

Tomorrow I will finish some things around the house. The kids want to sell some of their things on Ebay so I guess I get to help them do that.

Wednesday, I get to go have coffee with a new homeschool mom in our area! I love doing that!

Thursday I get to go set up my Discovery Toys booth at the Wee Ones Re-Runs Consignment Sale in Covington and then will be there on Friday meeting people!

Friday night will be fun. The homeschool families from our church, Raleigh Assembly of God, are coming over for a bonfire! We have about 20 families in the church that homeschool!

Why is it that when we have a "break", we end up doing more than normal? LOL

Have a great week!

The School Room

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:56:00 -0500

Whew! The actual process of getting the playroom (now school room) was not that hard or take very long. It didn't even take long to take pictures. What has taken so long is to get me to sit down long enough to upload them!

Here are the before pics:

Here is my youngest painting. Yes, I actually let the kids help! LOL

This is one of my youngest and oldest painting. The middle child was away at camp and was disappointed that he didn't get to help.

My hubby built me a shelf for our books and left a space underneath for the kids to sit and read. We put an under cabinet light under it too.

Since my hubby built a shelf for the books, I decided to use 2 of my existing shelves for the toys and games.

Here is the wall that has my dry erase board, timeline, solar system poster and multiplication poster. The book shelf next to this area has all of our school books for this year.

Here is our Music area.

I still have more to share but we have to run to Office Depot to have some more lesson plan books printed and bound. I will tell you about those later!

My dream school room

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:09:00 -0500

Lately I have been working on organizing my office and school room / playroom for the upcoming school year and have been trying to decide how to organize all of the stuff that we use. Well, I have found the Homeschool Queen of Organizing! Betsy Stout sent a link out to pictures of her school room and I have been studying it all week! It is EXACLTY what I am trying to do but I just couldn't figure out how to do it. Here is a link to her pictures http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/NotebookingNook/353757/. Go check it out!

I will be organized and ready to roll when we start school. Thanks Betsy!

So many passwords...

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:52:00 -0500

Well, I am back.....again! LOL I actually have popped in frequently but had forgotten my password and never took the time to try to retrieve it until yesterday. I emailed HSB Support and they helped me immediately! THANKS Jodi!

Anyway, things are still going well here. We are taking a mini summer break right now. The two older children will be going to church camp on July 9th. I was supposed to go with them but we had too many adults from our church signed up to go....what a wild problem to have, too many volunteers! LOL Imagine that.

I will be heading to California on July 19th for the Discovery Toys National Convention and am SO excited about it. We have 40 new products that will be coming out in the fall and I will get to see them at the "Toy Fair" that Discovery Toys does for us.

We will finish out the summer doing math and finishing up some things that need to be done but will still be having fun too! We are enjoying "Terrific Tuesdays" at our church where the kids get to go do fun things. We have had skating and children's museum so far. Next week is Chuck E. Cheese! YAY!!

That is all for now. I will post again soon.....if I remember my password that is! LOL

Last Chance Sales!!

Thu, 8 Feb 2007 08:30:01 -0600

Ok there are TWO HUGE Closeout sales going on!!! One is the Winter
Sale where you can save up to 62% OFF. That ends February 10th.
Thats THIS Saturday. AND STARTING February 8th is the Spring
Closeout Sale!! Where you can SAVE up to 50% OFF! These Toys will
not be available again. So go and check out my website!
There is a bunch of items that can be used by
Homeschoolers. Especially in the Spring Closeout Sale Started Feb
8th and Ending March 15th. Here is a list of the sale items. If you
want feel free to order them off my website
www.discoverytoyslink.com/cjarvis OR send me an email
christie@christiejarvis.com

WINTER SALE (items with the * are Good additions to a curriculum)
ends February 10th!

ALL Toys and Games Promote Learning. Descriptions available on my
website. www.discoverytoyslink.com/cjarvis

Early Years:* Classical Casey $16.99
My First Discoveries (cloth book) $9.99
Copy Cat's Animal Noises (board book) $5.99
My Blankie (Book and Blanket set) $10.99

Preschool Years: Flexiblocks (can be used along with Legos!) $19.99
* My Dad's Story (Magnetic book) $11.99
Color, Craft & Carry $9.99
Astro Arcade (popup Tent) $29.99
Softly Sarah (Caucasion Doll) $13.99
Softly Sarah Royal Dressup Outfits $8.99
The Race (book) $8.99
School Years:* Handy Helpers Activity Cards School Years $8.99
* Marbleous Mosaics (FUN travel Game) $15.99
Jumpin Jam Splash(jump rope hooks to garden hose) $7.99
Bear Works (Similar to Build A Bear) $12.99
Super Marbleworks Raceway Accessory Set $8.99
* Tutti Frutti (card game) $11.99
Doodle Chair (kids size folding chair) $19.99
* Puzzled! Aha! Brainteasers $14.99
Pixelblocks (similar to legos but adapts color to TV
screen of computer monitor) (1400 peices) $29.99
* Wrap & Learn Multiplication $9.99
X-Trek (Radio Control Race track) $29.99

Spring Closeout Sale
Starts February 8th-Ends March 15th

Fascination Safari Station $19.99 (early years)
Rockin Safari $8.99 (early years)
Tidy Traveler refill Pack $9.99 (personnal care)
Jiggles $9.99 (early years)
Night, Night Bear (book) $9.99 (early years)
Watch Me Grow $9.99 (early years)
* Caterpillar Color Race $8.99 (preschool years)
Animal Tracks $19.99 (early years)
* Progressive puzzles $6.99 (preschool years)
Buzzy Buddy $6.99 (early years)
* Formulate-4 $14.99 (preschool years)
* Alphabet Lace Place $12.99 (preschool years)
Matville Double Play $14.99 (preschool Years)
Matville vehicles $6.99 (preschool years)
* Adventures In Grammer $9.99 (School years)
* Wild Woods (game) $8.99 (preschool years)
* Stargo (game) $12.99 (School Years)
* Make-A-Photo Story $14.99 (School years)
* Opposites are fun (book and CD) $12.99 (preschool years)
* It's My Business (entreprenuer starter Kit) $14.99 (school years)
* Science Wiz Power Pals (science Kit) $19.99 (school years)
* Science Wiz Inventions (science Kit) $19.99 (school years)
3 in 1 PlayCenter $23.99 (preschool years)

check out my webpage to see what all these great Toys and Games look
like and learn what they can do for your family.

www.christiejarvis.com

~Christie Jarvis~

Now is THE time to give Discovery Toys a test drive!

Pay off your holiday bills, have fun, touch many lives with exceptional educational products and make a great income.

Ask me how you can become involved TODAY!

Catching Up

Mon, 5 Feb 2007 13:12:00 -0600

I have quite a bit of catching up to do! We have been pretty busy around here and I have not had a chance to blog.

Let's see.... in November, the new little baby that I am keeping was born. She is such a cutie and is really a good baby. It is a joy to have her around. Since I can't have anymore children, I will just borrow others :)

I stayed busy in November and December with Discovery Toys. My children got a lot of Discovery Toys this year! :) So many of our products are great learning tools that I can use in our homeschool.

We have really gotten into Ancient Greece and have a lot of fun with it. We tried to make a paper mache' apple to have a keepsake for Zeus' Golden Apple but it didn't turn out very well so we just painted a fake apple and wrote "To The Most Beautiful" on it. My kids will always remember that story!

Things slowed down in January a little bit. My uncle Don passed away on Jan 28th after a long battle with cancer. He will be greatly missed but we know that he is in a much better place and is not in pain anymore! Praise God!

We are preparing for our Valentine's Party with the homeschoolers at our church. I love being a part of a church that has so many homeschoolers! It is such a blessing to have others people that believe in the same things as you do and be able to get together for homeschool activities.

I will TRY to come on frequently and update....we shall see :)

New Moms

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:51:00 -0500

I had SO much fun today! I had the opportunity to speak to the new moms support group at one of the hospitals in our area. There were about 5 of them there and they all had their babies ranging in age from 7 weeks to 7 months. I got a party booked and everyone was interested in Discovery Toys in one way. This is one reason why I love my job! I get to teach new mommies about these wonderful products and see the joy in their faces.

Have a PLAYFUL day!

Saving Dinner

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 17:16:00 -0500

On the way to church this morning, I started reading the latest edition of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine. Fabulous as always...anyway, I was so excited to see the article about Leanne Ely and her methods of helping families eat healthier meals together. I have been a Menu Mailer subscriber for almost 2 years. I have always been a good cook but it wasn't always healthy....too much fat, preservatives, sugar....etc. Now, we cook very healthy meals and are feeling GREAT! My cholesterol is AWESOME!

My children aren't crazy about every meal that I cook from the menu mailer reipes but how many kids DO like everything their mom cooks?? I was amazed though at some of the things they did eat. They actually like the recipes with salmon! If you have not checked out www.savingdinner.com then do it today! You can use a sample menu for a week and see how it works.