Mom Monday-We Love Teachers!!

It's Teacher Appreciation week!!!  Time to show your kids' teachers how much you appreciate everything they have done all year for your tiny humans.  My kids have been blessed with great teachers this year.  So I am definitely taking this week to make sure they know how much we appreciate them.  I have gathered some really cute ideas.  Most are simple and easy on the budget.

This was my first choice for Chief's teachers but...how to get 2 bottles of wine into the school???

 

So I also found some more appropriate gifts that the actual student can give their teachers. This one is really cute and easy from Pizzazzerie.  Those plastic mason jar cups are everywhere right now.  Fill it with cute pink stuff and you are done.  Perfect for those kids that have more than one teacher.

 

 

 

 I also love this one!!  Got a child with 3 or 4 teachers?  This one is great on the budget but still really cute!

 

 

If your favorite teacher has a green thumb, then give them a plant that can still grow in the classroom!  Everyone is kind of in a "succulent" trend right now.  This blog also has more ideas for you!

 

 

I have shopped and gathered Chief's teacher gifts.  I came up with stuffing a bag with pens, pencils, and notepads with a tag that reads "You are a NOTEWORTHY teacher!"  I haven't put it all together but when I do, watch for it!!

 

Whatever you do make sure it comes from the heart.  Your teachers will appreciate it! 

 

PS-don't forget the speech therapists this month either!! It is Better Speech and Hearing Month!!  Since they are not classroom teachers, students and parents tend to forget about them.  But they work hard too!!

 

Hugs y'all!

Melissa

 

 

Wonder Woman Wednesday-The Grateful Jar

It's two weeks before Thanksgiving which usually means our Facebook feeds are filled with people doing the "30 days of Thankfulness" or whatever it is called.  Obviously, I am not doing it.  Not  because I am not thankful or grateful for the people and oppurtunities in my life.  I don't feel it is necessary to plaster it all over social media.  If you are grateful/thankful, you tell those people to their face.  You do little things like bake some cookies and deliver them.  You send them a card just thanking them for being them. Don't get me wrong.  I am not judging the people that are participating in it.  I am not saying they are thankful for their parents, grandparents, spouses or kids.  I just believe the spoken word speaks louder than sitting behind the computer and typing the same message.

 

That being said, I have come up with a creative way to display your thankfulnes year round!  I have seen many ideas for a Thankful tree or a Grateful tree.  We have a chalkboard wall that was perfect for this idea. I may still do it for the next couple of weeks.  But I really want something that can be used year round.  So I came up with the "Grateful Jar."  Take a plain old mason jar, decorate it how ever you want, get the kids in on it...whatever!  Throughout the year, write things that made you grateful/thankful at that moment.  If your hubby got up with the baby at 2 in morning, write how grateful you are on a slip of paper.  If your 8 year old son FINALLY picked up all his Legos without being asked (purely hypothetical!!), write it your gratefulness down on a slip of paper.  If your 13 year old daughter contained her annoyance for her little brother long enough to help him complete a task (again HYPOTHETICAL), write how much you appreciated that on your slip of paper.  You get the idea, right? Each time you write a grateful moment down, put that slip of paper in the jar.  The point is to have a year of grateful moments that you can share on Thanksgiving night, New Year's Eve or whenever you feel the need. By doing it this way, you are showing your thankfulness year round for your loved ones, not just in the month of November.

Here's a picture of ours.  We are starting ours today afterschool.

Hope everyone has a great Wednesday!

Hugs y'all!

LSG

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