The Sewing Mom

The holidays are over and all of our gifts have either been put away or returned to the store. However, during the holidays, I tend to reminisce about Christmases past and I got to thinking about my nieces and nephews when they were young children.

My one nephew in particular wanted a particular type of building set one year that, after it was put together, created a cool pirate ship. I was a poor college student at the time and the $40 price tag seemed like an awful lot. I just had to get it for him though, it was what he wanted and I knew it was such a fabulous toy. You see, kids can actually learn things from their toys, especially the construction, creative toys such as a building set.

My nieces and nephews are all grown up now and some even have children of their own. Soon it will be time to be buying their young children similar building sets to what I bought my nephew. The toy companies have come a long way though and now there are really cool magnet building sets available that not only foster creative hands on learning, but because they use magnets, there is scientific learning going on as well. Think about it, who isn’t fascinated with magnets and how they work?

The magnetic building sets from Magnext come in many shapes and sizes and so many different things can be built from them such as a roller coaster, or, how about a T-rex dinosaur?! This sets are really amazing and I plan to stock up now and have them on hand for future gift giving.

WOW! I all ready feel blessed and the New Year has only just begun. I learned today that I have been awarded the Lemonade Award, not by one, but by two very talented bloggers. I am happy beyond words and want to say thank you to both Lisa at New York Chica and the Unbalanced Libra, thank you ladies!

Here are the rules for this award:

* Display the award on your blog or your post.
* Nominate 10 blogs that have great Attitude, and or Gratitude.
* Link your nominees.
* Leave a comment on your nominees blogs, so they know what’s happening.
* And as always link back to the blog who give you the award.

As I recently received this award and posted about it here, I am going to leave it at thank you and not do any nominations, although, I do know that there are so many more blogs who all show great Attitude and/or Gratitude.

New Years Graphic CommentsTo all of my readers and their families, I wish you all a very Happy New Year filled with God’s blessings. May you find peace, health and happiness. I am looking forward to the new year with all of its possibilities and hope to share my new experiences here with you. I also hope to read your own stories on all of the many blogs I visit on an almost daily basis. Happy blogging and stay tuned!