Teacher Appreciation Week

by Amy1 Comment
It's Teacher Appreciation Week, and like gratitude, I think we should try to show our appreciation as much as possible.  Click here if you missed my post on gratitude. I've been looking at Pinterest for Teacher Appreciation Week gift ideas. During my research,  I noticed a few things: there are lots of ideas for fun or funny gifts, there are a ton of bad puns, loads of ideas for candy/food gifts, and cute ways to wrap up office supplies, which is usually my gift of choice. I even saw an idea for a gift of wine personalized to state that your kid is the reason her or his teacher drinks (I’m not too sure about that one). While fun and funny, I felt the main focus of the week was lost.  The true respect, admiration, and recognition of the difference teachers make in our lives was not the focus and we need to make sure that is a part of any teacher...
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Mother’s Day Gifts any Mom would love

by Amy14 Comments
Mother's Day is next month, if you haven’t started thinking about what you want to do or give on Mother’s Day, I have a few ideas that could work for you. Here are my Mother's Day Gift Ideas any Mom would love Gifts made by the people who love them Handmade gifts:  All moms, grandmas, great grandmas, and aunties love things made by their kids, grand-kids, nieces, and nephews, especially when little hands and feet are featured. The sight of these handmade treasures usually brings a tear to the eye. Here are hand and foot flowers that I made inspired by the many ideas on Pinterest. Make a meal: There is the classic breakfast in bed for mom, Mother's Day brunch or make her dinner with an amazing dessert. Does your mom love chocolate? You could impress her with Molten Chocolate cake! Gift of Time Time off:  I remember as a new mom, I fell into the all too common pattern of the baby first all the time....
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