Adventures of a Military Family of 8
No Anchor Can Hold Us Down...
Our Family has started to budget as of October 1st and one of the things on the priority list is to cut cable. While researching for ways to still keep my sanity and not have cable, I found one solution that I loved. The Google Chromecast streaming media player is perfect for my needs, watching t.v. while I cut off the cable! See it. Stream it. Love it! Google Chromecast Streaming…
Many friends and Family members constantly asked me what laundry system I use and after seeing for themselves my many failed attempts at laundry peace, I am happy that they can see my final choice.As a Mom of 6 kids, 2 dogs, 1 cat, 1 rabbit, 1 turtle, and many fish; I have searched high and low for the perfect washer and dryer, and I finally found a laundry system that can keep up with my lifestyle.
What is the Best Laundry System to Buy? I have found that the best combination for me [Read more…]
As a Family of 8 in this day in age it is imperative that there is a security plan in place for our wifi network at home. This is why I was happy to receive the Cujo Smart Firewall to use in our home. After installing and using it, I am so happy to share with you How to Make Your Home Wifi Network Secure for Your Family with Cujo Smart Firewall.
It was so much easier than I thought, and with the design it has; it is definitely welcome in any part of the house! I was very happy that Best Buy sent it to us.
Great STEM Learning Toy for Kids Circuit Scribe Basic – Draw Circuits Learning System. As a Mom of 6 kids, it is always a challenge to find toys that the kids will like AND are educational, but lately I have found that STEM toys are the perfect combination. The kids enjoy playing with STEM based toys, and I am happy to know that they are learning in the process.
My 12 and 9 year old Sons have been into building circuits lately, and it has been a fun thing to watch, as I think back to my Grandfather teaching me as a kid [Read more…]
With so many birthdays and events, I am always writing thank you cards on behalf of the kids; it’s the neat thing to do. I say neat, because the kids might not always write the neatest or most thoughtful note cards.
Which is why I was so excited when I was approached to try Thankr.
UPDATE:
The Thankr app is now available on Android as well!! (yay!)
Thankr is an app that makes it not only fun, but an easy way [Read more…]
A year ago while we were preparing for my Daughter’s Sweet 16, we had a lot of rehearsals at home for their 3 dances. It was a constant hassle because we were always using the small portable speakers, they were never loud enough to play over 16 loud teens, and they would run out of power so quickly. [Read more…]
This is part of a sponsored collaboration with Wisdomantics. All opinions are 100% mine.
Child #1 “Mom, tell her to stop touching me!
Child #2 ” I’m not touching him!!”
Child #3 “I’m bored”
Child #4 “Daddy, I’m hungry!”
If you have a large family then you know how the rest of this conversation goes. Someone is always bored, hungry, needing to use the bathroom, bickering, so sleepy and the list goes on and on. So no matter where we are going, if there is any period of time when we are all going to be confined to one space, I need something to keep everyone happy and occupied. Happy, occupied kids lead to calm, stress free parents and that is always the goal, am I right?
A couple of weeks ago we decided to take a road trip and visit some family that lives a few hours away. So, we packed our bags and some fun stuff for the kids to do in the car along with some snacks to save money and minimize stopping as much as possible. Each kid has their own bag with their snacks and a variety of things to stay busy with. Coloring books, puzzles, travel games, crayons and pencils are perfect for taking along on a road trip. This ensures that everyone has something that they like to do and they can entertain themselves for part of the trip.
We hit the road and the first hour of our trip was smooth and quiet. Everyone was doing their own thing, my husband was driving and I was enjoying the bicker free zone! Then we arrived at our destination and everyone was smiling and happy. LOL, just kidding! By the time the second hour of our little road trip began so did the bickering. All I know is someone kicked someone else, voices started to rise and then there was a stinky fart that nobody would claim ownership of. As I opened the window and gasped for some fresh air, I remembered. I reached into my bag and pulled out the iPad. That got the kid’s attention and of course they wanted to know what I was doing. Well, I had remembered that I brought the iPad along because I installed a game that we could all play together while we were in the car on our trip.
Wisdomantics is an awesome game from Kingdom Games Enterprises, LLC and we were given the opportunity to try it out and have some good, clean family fun! I love games like this because there are so many games out there that are too grown up for my little ones and too childish for my big ones. When I find a game that the whole family can play, I seriously feel like I hit the jackpot. Wisdomantics is definitely a big win for us because even the youngest kids can play along with help from me, dad or a sibling. The colorful graphics in the game were really bright and we love the whole look of the game.
I love that the game is easy to learn so that you can start playing right away. My favorite thing about Wisdomantics is that it has options to play against the computer, which is great for someone who is alone while playing and also to play against accutane online without rx other players online. Our favorite option is the Pass & Play game. This is a multiplayer game for people that are together. Everyone gets to take a turn and then pass it to the next player. This works perfectly for our big family! You can choose 2 to 4 player so we formed teams of 2 so that we could all play at the same time.
In Wisdomantics, you learn the wisdom of King Solomon. The goal of the game is to impart this wisdom in each player so that they can learn to apply it to their real lives. There are 400 multiple choice questions in the game that are based on the book of Proverbs in the Holy Bible. I love that my kids were having so much fun playing that they didn’t realize that they were learning important lessons from the Bible at the same time. Now, anyone who knows me know that I am a huge believer that learning should be fun and that kids learn the most when they are getting a genuine sense of enjoyment from their activities. When you play for yourself you will feel that Wisdomantics was made with this belief in mind. My kids love it and ask to play during family game night now and I love seeing them use what they learned in their daily activities.
Since we first played Wisdomantics on our road trip, it has fast become a family favorite. It has definitely saved my butt a few times when we ended up stuck in traffic or in a crowded doctor’s office waiting room. It’s a fun game that keeps my kids quiet and happily busy for a while and because of this I never leave home without the iPad anymore. I never know when we might
need it and it’s a game I can feel good about as a parent.
Wisdomantics is available in the ios app store and will soon be available on Android devices.
It’s definitely worth the inexpensive $2.99 price tag! If you would love to play Wisdomantics you can download it today here
You can enter my giveaway below for a chance to win 1 of 2 $25 Visa gift cards, and a special giveaway only for those of you who purchase the app…
A giveaway for an iPad 2!
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Giveaway ends June 30, 2016
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Winners of June’s Giveaways:
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Malware vs Precious Memories #LifeOnFiOS
I lost, but you can prevent that. Please do something to prevent that! I didn’t and I lost EVERYTHING on my cell phone and my laptop from Malware. I also lost my cell phone AND laptop! Below is what happened to me, my personal story of what happened this week. If you have ever thought about backing up your phone and decided to do it later, thought about backing up the items on your computer? I thought about doing that a lot, but with daily life I always choose to leave it for later.
A few weeks ago, I was upgrading my internet to Quantum FiOS Internet, and I saw some packages that they offer for internet safety on your phones, computers, and back up options. I thought about getting one of the packages, honestly they are NOT costly at all; but I thought I’d just go back to that later. Days kept passing and not a day would go by that I wouldn’t think about ordering the Safety Package, but I kept saying…
“I’ll do it later”
On Wednesday I had my cell phone plugged into my computer, I was charging it and using it at the same time. Suddenly my phone started showing a lot of flashing screens and went black. I thought it was powering down because of the battery so I tried to turn it back on. My laptop went black and powered down as well. I thought nothing of it and went to turn it on again. I would show you a picture of the messages on the screens, but I had no other devices to take pictures with ;/.
Have you ever had the “blue screen of death” on your computer? I have, many times on many different computers (because I never learned my lesson and would turn off anti-virus programs). This one was different, apparently I discovered the “black screen of death”
The phone and computer wouldn’t fully turn on, all I had on both was a black screen.
After many attempts from my “google” friend, and a techie (I.T.) Husband, the diagnosis is malware. The laptop has a corrupted hard drive, and the cell phone in “my” language? Is “no-more” Seems since I was using both at the same time, I had an open and live connection between both. I was also on a mi-fi when I was working, so what came in through my phone, moved into my laptop and had babies lol.
Moral of the story?
Always make sure you back up your devices. schedule it during your sleep time if that’s better for you, but please do it. I lost thousands of memories on each device, as I have on many other devices that I have lost/gotten stolen/infected. Memories of my kids that I will never get back, it’s truly heartbreaking.
Are you a Verizon FiOS member?
If you are not, I am not going to pick on you; I still love you!
I have tried many different providers (as you can read about it here), but none ever gave me ALL of the services and quality that Verizon does. I am not saying this because I am getting paid for this post, because I am not. No one asked me to write this post. I am simply writing this post because I felt it was VERY important to share with my readers what mistake I made. It is a mistake that cost me so much, and if I can help ONE person avoid this; then I have done something good.
If you are not a member of Verizon and want to be, you should sign-up; from Amazon gc’s as rewards, to quantum speed internet, to having the amazing ability to record up to 12 shows at once…
The benefits are unlimited!
My #LifeOnFiOS is so much easier with Quantum Internet…
Without giving away my age, I am going to tell you that my first memories of using the internet included the now prehistoric dial-up. Something that my children will never know the sounds of, I clearly remember the never-ending minutes I had to wait for a video to finish buffering. It’s stuff of Halloween stories!
Fast forward to my adult life, a life as a Military Family; a life as an always moving Military Family… of 8!
When I was a “newlywed” and a “Mommy of littles with a Husband always seeming to be Deployed”, I felt alone [Read more…]
