It’s amazing what a little alone time three days a week can do for a puzzling momma! I have been getting in at least an hour or so on these days and it has been wonderful. It’s also getting a lot easier since I have a lot less pieces to weed through to find the right one as I get closer and closer to the end. Here are a couple of picture updates. As you can see, all that remains…
I can’t believe that I have gotten to work on the puzzle multiple times this week – it makes me sooo happy. Between yesterday and today I was able to place well over 200 pieces, I think. Very excited about that. I have also set a new goal for myself so that I can finish this section up in a timely manner and then take a small puzzling break to do a thorough spring cleaning of my house, and to…
It’s been three weeks since Derek started school, and I’m so pleased to report that each day it has gotten a little easier than the previous time. He still likes me to stay with him for a few minutes or “10 and 5 minutes” as he likes to say. LOL I usually sneak out after just a few minutes and he seems to be doing okay with that. So, each day I have been getting in at least 45 minutes…
Today was Derek’s official first day of preschool, and it surprisingly did not start off well. For months on end, we heard nothing but “I wanna go to school….when can I go to school?”….etc from him. But then right before he had his “try it out – discovery day” at school back in January, he started saying that he didn’t want to go. So we kind of dropped it for a while. Then as scheduled, he started this morning. We…
Happy 2014 everyone! The year is off to a good start as I have been lucky enough to get in a little bit of puzzling time this week. Cole is sleeping through the night most nights so I’ve been getting a little more sleep lately which certainly helps with enabling me to get in some puzzling time once in a while. I haven’t posted new progress pictures in quite some time I know, so here are the latest and greatest….
They were both Christmas presents for my son, Derek this year. He desperately wants to help me with my Life puzzle, but Mommy is still a little gun shy on letting him help with that one just yet. So, instead we worked on two puzzles together this week. The first one, a Peanuts theme featuring Snoopy was 35 pieces, and almost made me want to go camping – not quite though! LOL The other one, Spiderman with friends and foes,…
Hello to all of Penny’s readers! My name is Matthew, I’m the writer and researcher for Puzumi. We’re a puzzle company that prides itself on creating puzzles that help people train their brain, sharpen their skills and let folks have fun while doing this! A big focus of mine of late has been looking at how puzzles impact children during their development. From their earliest moments when they begin using puzzles that are simple cutouts of basic shapes, to more…
Conversation with my almost 4-year-old son yesterday, “Mommy, can I have a piece of candy?” “Sure, Derek. Get one piece out of your Halloween bowl.” A minute later, “Mommy, look….a puzzle piece!” What?! My missing piece from Kevin Sloan’s The Messenger has been found! I wonder how it got in Derek’s Halloween stash?! It’s wood so I don’t think it would have tasted too much like 100 Grand bar. Hmmmm…….
Earlier this week, I was contacted by Mike from the Jigamajoy Company of Pine Brook, New Jersey, who has created a very unique product that combines standard playing cards and jigsaw puzzles into a really interesting puzzling experience. A few formats have several different ways to solve each puzzle and some even have math questions to help kids put the puzzle together correctly. Huh? Who would have thought of combining these two seemingly unrelated aspects of “gaming”, but it seems…
In my last post I mentioned that I was getting my first wooden jigsaw puzzle, entitled The Messenger by Kevin Sloan. What I didn’t say at the time, as I hadn’t yet received the puzzle, was that I was contacted by Artifact Puzzles and given the opportunity to choose any puzzle I wanted (up to a generous pre-set price) and they would send it to me absolutely free of charge. Of course I was very skeptical at first because it sounded too…