What I learned in August.....

I have linked up with Emily P Freeman for a few months now posting What I learned in.......

here is my August one

1. back to school time is bitter sweet
i feel like it am so ready for them to get back to school and then i find that i miss them a ton. either way they are both doing great in school, my son has new found love for school and we could not be more pleased with the teachers that they each got this year. Thankful for it all.

2. ice cream is cheaper than therapy
i have really struggled with a few things this past month and i happen to come across this shirt. I need it in my life. I searched for something similar on my favorite tshirt site Look Human. i was surprised to find how much is cheaper than therapy. just check out this list of tshirts that have things listed that are cheaper than therapy. WHY KNEW?!?!?

3. i love supporting friends on the mission field
We have college friends that are missionaries in Papua New Guiena. I love that we can partner with them and support them while they are away from home. Here is a link to their Booster page, with one day left to help support them and celebrate with them on two years there.

4. finding beauty in my days
just sitting in carline and this beauty landed on my van. the beauty in the mundane.

5. reading books that challenge and push me.
I finished Rising Strong by Brene' Brown and really loved every second of it.

Teacher Appreciation

I was looking all over for a cute way for my kids to bring their teacher a Starbucks gift card this week for Teacher Appreciation week and I came across this link at Thrifty NW Mom.

Pinterest has a ton of links to other ways you can do this but this was just happened to be my favorite.

this is the final project!

I just need to have the kids sign their name to the card and we are done.

supplies needed:

scissors

tape

bakers twine or regular twine

Starbucks card

coffee sleeve holder

(I just asked the lady at Starbucks if I could grab two, she smiled and said that was fine and thought it would be a cute addition to the card.)

and the printable from Thrifty NW Mom here

this is what one side of the coffee sleeve looked like

this is what the other side of it looked like

I cut the one side off and then it fit on the printable cup better

see, looks like a real Starbucks cup.

you can see that when you cut the coffee sleeve it comes apart

I used some double stick tape to attach the two ends together

then  slid the gift card into the sleeve and taped the sleeve onto the printable card.

They gave me this gift card holder so I decided to tape it to the back of the card with the total amount that is on the gift card. then I wrapped the card in the bakers twine.

fun easy teacher appreciation gift and a quick way for me to get my craft on. thank you Thrifty NW Mom for the great idea and printable.

St Patty's Day Treat

At the end of last week we brought these cute colors to Little girl's teachers so that they would be sure not to get pinched today. I chose both of the colors one day when I was out shopping and I brought them home and asked Little girl which colors she would like to give each of her teachers. She chose the exact colors that I would have picked of the ladies and they are the exact colors that each of them liked. We were pleased. 

I saw this pin last year and knew that it would be fun for her teachers this year for St. Patty's day. 

 

I really liked their printable but wasn't sure how it would print on my printer so I just typed up the saying in word and glued it on some green card stock and tied it on with some bakers twine.

thank you eighteen 25 for always sharing cute ideas.

Back to School Teacher Gifts

I must give credit, where credit is due. I saw this cute little tag on my instagram feed and had to investigate. I clicked on her site and there is was. this cute little printable to pair with your favorite candle for you childs teacher. you can find the link to this printable at Skip to my Lou blog here. there is also another option with the same saying on them.

my printer is currently out of colored ink so I just wrote the cute little saying on come card stock. we have three teachers this year. one for my son and my daughter has two preschool teachers. it was fun picking out the candle and the scents with my girl and then bringing them home to tie up.

Thank you Skip to my Lou for such a wonderful idea and the cute printable. I wish my printer was working and I could have printed them.

Evidence that God is listening

My son is finishing up his kindergarten year in public school. Public school in general was a little scary for me but while there were somethings about it that I wasn't crazy about this year my golden boy has done great there. Anyone who knows us knows that he was fitted for hearing aids three and a half years ago. I wrote about it here, here and here.

While the disability was somewhat life changing for us it has been beneficial in some ways as well. One of the ways is that with him having as IEP (individualized learning plan) at the school we are able to get recommendations from his teacher and from his speech therapist about what teacher for the next year will be good for him. Both ladies had agreed that there were two first grade teachers that would be great for him. After meeting with his teacher she was able to get a better idea of who would be best for him. We had his IEP meeting and she was put in as his first grade teacher. I have still not met her yet though.

All this brings me around to my title of this post......evidence that God is listening.  While we were at the park the other day I met a mother of four kids who all are at the same school as my guy.  Her youngest is a girl and she is in second grade. I asked her about the first grade teachers for her kids and three of her kids have had this teacher that my golden boy will have next year. This mother had nothing but wonderful things to say about this teacher. She especially said how beneficial she was for her two boys. My heart was settled. A peace came over me. My pray has been that he has a great  first grade year, that this teacher that we have never met but was recommended to us will be wonderful. I know it is still two or so months away but i also know that it will be here before i know it.  He has been hearing my prayers. He knows the desires of my heart. He loves me with an everlasting love. He loves my golden boy too and wants the best for him.  Feeling blessed.

Teacher Appreciation 2014

 well it is teacher appreciation week and pinterest is  overflowing with ideas for those teachers in your life. after the abundance of strawberries that we picked this past weekend I knew that on Monday my little guy would be bringing some to his teacher. I searched pinterest for a way to make a box to put them in. I had about four of those cute blue berry boxes at one point but I am down to only one left and I can't manage to part with it. I had a just emptied wheat thins box so that was what I was going to use. i came across this cute little box and decided to follow the tutorial to make it for the berries.

what you need: cardboard box

paper towel

strawberries

staple

tag

hole punch

bakers twine

i came across this pin on pinterest for the tag. i just now opened the link and saw that the tag in the picture is a free download. it's cute too.
here is another link to some cute things you can so with those empty cereal boxes

Teacher Gift

cute apple cups

yummy candy sticks from Cracker Barrel



a cute cup to give to teachers

 I saw these cute cups in the dollar section of Target a while back and grabbed three of them for Little Guy's teachers. I wasn't sure when I would use them for but knew that would get them some time during the year. Teacher appreciation week was the perfect time. I wasn't sure what I wanted to put in them either until my hubby came home from Cracker Barrel with a hand full of these candy sticks. After we ate almost all of the ones he got I headed to CB and got some more to put in the glasses.