Appreciating the Teachers

We are passing these little gifts out to Shelly's four classroom teachers for Teacher Appreciation Week. 

The notepads are from Marshall's and then I added a Lindt chocolate bar to each package. 

I found this cute idea for the tag here and created my own version.

 Shelly has some great teachers and I hope they know how much they are appreciated!

Thanks Pinterest

So about a week ago I was looking at the stats for my blog (how often my blog is visited, where visitors are located, what people Google to get to my site, etc.) and I noticed a huge number (like over 100) of people had been to my blog in one day. I was shocked. This is just a little ol' family blog meant to keep my family and friends updated with our comings and goings. 

As I dug deeper into the blog statistics, I realized that the large numbers of people were visiting from Pinterest. And, specifically they were stopping by to see some of my teacher gifts that I put together for my girls' teachers. 

The teacher in me was thrilled. The crafty part of me was overwhelmed. And, the blogger in me was stunned. 

But what happened next got me even more excited. I checked out my stats once again and on yet, another Friday, my blog had over 100 visitors. I can't get over it. 

So with this new knowledge I am thinking I might need to do a little something more with the teacher gift section of my blog. Not sure how it will manifest itself, but stay tuned as I work on more teacher inspiration. 

And to all of the new followers...welcome and thank you! 

We ♡ Their Teachers

The girls have some really fantastic teachers. Teachers who work hard and care about their students. So, we made up a little something for them to show our appreciation. The cupcake in a jar idea has been all over the blog world. So, here is our twist on it. 

Bake the cupcakes

Place sprinkles in the bottom of the jars (16 oz. jars)

Slice 2 cupcakes in half, place the bottom of one in jar, frost, add more sprinkles, top with cupcake top. Repeat.

Add a ribbon around the jar

Add a spoon and tie it up!

Create a label with the cupcake info

Create a label and attach it to the top---done!

Frost the remaining cupcakes and sprinkle on mini pastel chips. Feed to the girls.

Showered with ♥

Lily's terrific 4th grade teacher is getting married in a couple of weeks. So, a few of the moms got together to throw her a surprise shower at the school. We set up in the library and I think she was very surprised. 

Lily loves her and can't wait to attend her wedding. So exciting.

Gifts

Ok, now is the time that I get all sappy and melancholy about another year ending for Lily. She will finish the 2nd grade tomorrow and by 12:46 (her words) she will be a 3rd grader. It just doesn't seem possible. I am not ready for the second half of elementary school to begin. Where is the time going????

Today Lily took her teacher gifts into school. We put together a beach towel, magazine, notepad, B&BW lotion, and Bath & Body Works gift certificate for Mrs. Lee. For her teacher assistant and bus driver, we got a ceramic ice cream cone dish, scoop, notepad, and B&BW lotion. And finally, we gave the specialists (6 of them...art, PE, music, etc.) a B&BW bottle of lotion and soap. Here are the gifts ready to go:

05.20.07

School will be wrapping up this week. So, that means I am working on the teacher gifts. Fortunately, I was able to donate money toward gift certificates for both of the girls' teachers. But, I came up with a simple little idea for the specialist teachers at Lily's school and for both of girls' teachers. It's a little ice cream dish with a spoon and then some chocolate candies inside and a gift certificate to Cold Stone Creamery. Here are the tags I made to go with the (12) gifts:

I printed these out and put them on cardstock. I'll take some pictures of the little gifts and post them soon. We had the annual end of the year pool party yesterday. This is always a fun time and we were there from 1:00 - 9:30!!! Fun, fun, fun!!! Lots of busy-ness next week...love the end of the school year...always have!!!