My friend, Katrina, knows me so very well. She sent me a link to a homeschooling momma's website, mamajennblogs.com and I have still not explored everything yet.
One thing I did find and set right to work making was the Mama & Me journal. I knew this would be perfect for our oldest daughter. What is a Mama & Me journal? It is a notebook for Mackenzie and I to write letters back and forth to each other. With 2 younger sisters around it is not always easy for us to have conversations. Plus, she is at the other house 50% of the time as well, so she will have something to look forward to that is all her own. And it serves a double purpose- she can practice her spelling, writing and penmanship.
I really hope that this notebook will help for us to keep the line of communication open. Life can be hard, so if/when she asks some tough questions I'll have some time to ask God how I should answer her.
You only need a few things to make a Mama & Me journal of your own.
- A notebook
- Some fun scrapbook paper
- Clear contact paper
You can download and print off a Mama & Me label from Jenn's site. But I didn't have the laptop printer with me so I just wrote it on myself.
Then I took an idea off Jenn's blog that she took off Erica's site (Confessions of a Homeschooler) and wrote a letter on the first page explaining what the notebook is about.
Dear Mackenzie,
Would you like to be my pen pal? Instead of mailing letters to each other, we can keep them here in this notebook. Does that sound like fun?
I will write to you and then leave the notebook on your bed. Then, when you want to write me back you can begin writing on the next page and leave the notebook on my bed when you are done.
You can write about anything! It can be funny or serious! Just write about whatever is on your mind! :-)
I am so excited and I hope that you are excited too!
Love,
Mom
P.S. Write back soon! :-)
Mackenzie has already discovered it and can't wait for me to write back to her.
