Getting Zoe Ready For Preschool and Miles Ready for Me

Zoe has been ready for at least two months to go to school. She is so very excited about going to preschool and getting homework. While I was at BlogHer, a friend of mine, Erica (she works for 5minutesformom) was telling me everything she needs to get done in a week for back to school with her three children. That reminded me that I have a lot to do too. Two of the things being, calling the doctor for a copy of the immunization records and the other, finding out where the registration forms are.

image I called the school and the doctor and have started the process of getting Zoe into school. My next problem is going to be how am I going to deal with my son, who’s entire world is his sister. I’m a small part of his world but he seems to handle when I leave and go on a trip but whenever he is away from his sister he gets really depressed. Hopefully, I can get him as interested in doing “home work” as his sister is. Then we can practice our letters, shapes, numbers and working with scissors.

Mead sent us five different products from the Mead Writing Fundamentals back to school line.

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Snip-It
Shape Builders
Letter Stories
Dry Erase Activity Board (Stages 1, 2, 3)

Zoe just loves practicing her letters and working on numbers. She can sit for hours just learning and working on these things.

So my goal is that while Zoe is off at Pre-school for 3 hours every couple of days is to get Miles interested in academics a little more, but more than that it’s going to be about having time alone with mommy. I’ll have lots of one on one time with him and I’m really excited about it. I’m also excited to practice shapes and letter recognition. This is the age that Zoe was when she started learning her alphabet.

Mead Writing Fundamentals are designed with your child in mind. They encourage hand eye coordination, reading skills, and the ability to focus. They are divided into four stages based on the developmental level of the child, these tools progressively build upon one another as children master the skills necessary for writing success.

The mead product line can be found at Target and has been on-sale for Back To School! I am giving away the entire set that I received to review. All you have to do to enter is:

Leave me a comment telling me how you are getting ready for preschool. You can earn more entries by doing all of the social media things listed below (digg, stumble, blog, you know the drill) if you feel so inclined.

This is a product sponsored post and giveaway the supplies are provided by Mead. This giveaway ends August 23rd, All rules can be found under giveaway rules.

Getting Organized with Mead and Target Giveaway

I am awful with organization. TERRIBLE! I just can’t get myself together and the only thing I have that is holding the pieces together is Outlook. But what do I do when I can’t access my computer or phone, and yes it does happen.

Sometimes, my husband would just like to know what is for dinner, sometimes, he and I, I should say we, we would like to know what our plans are for the week, what is our schedule for the month? I keep it all in outlook, and send it to him, but it would be easier if it was in a more centralized place, like the Fridge! Mead sent me some of their Organizeher products for review. I love the color! Thanks for adding color to my kitchen decor!

I know everyone likes to see my personal photos of using the products that I’m reviewing but for this one, and my trip being at the same time, I just didn’t have time to properly process the photos for the review. So I apologize, but rest assured, they are on my fridge. Ok, so saying that actually made me feel guilty and I jumped up and used my not meant for great photos video camera to take some photos.

Anyways!

Mead has an new line of organizational products for moms like me, and dads like my husband called OrganizHer, sold exclusively at Target.

Family To-Do Magnetic Notepad

If it can go on the fridge it saves my life. The kitchen is the center of life, you eat three meals a day so you’re always around the fridge. So I love this because I can keep different lists and see them all day long as a reminder.  image

Write ‘N Wipe Meal Center

I’m a big time meal planner, and I’m always pulling up my blog to find what I was planning on making, so now, I can keep it on the fridge, and make a grocery list as the same time! 

IMG_0199Expense Tracker

 

image Saving money is made a whole lot easier when you keep track of how much you are spending. I once created my own way of keeping track of it, but this keeps me organized and saves me time. I don’t have to find a notebook and draw all the lines, it’s all done for me.

Magnetic Calendar Center:

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My husband and I can now centrally find all our monthly information and put our computers down for a while!

Month to Month Family Wall Calendar:

 

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I asked for one of these because we always have one. We for some reason don’t have one this year, but now we do, so Thank you Mead for all of these products.

Enter to Win:

The exact same products I received (an estimated $50 in product), along with a $25 gift card to Target.

Month-To-Month Family Wall Calendar

Magnetic Calendar Center

Write ‘N Wipe Meal Center

Expense Tracker

Family To-Do Magnetic Notepad

To Enter:

Extra Entries:

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The contest will run until June 6th 11:59 pm Pacific. All rules can be found under giveaway rules