I am super excited to kick off my 10 day series this year!  This series will  be a follow up to my previous posts in my Teaching your Child to read Series. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out my Letter of the Week Series,  print concepts and reading behavior ideas and sight word series for tons of freebies and great information!!

The very first reading strategy in this series can be seen both at school and at home. At home it takes an entirely different form.

At home eagle eyes are special adaptations developed over centuries of evolving children. This amazing ability includes: Being to detect Mom from anywhere on Earth, seeing through walls when a sibling has something that doesn’t belong to them and the uncanny ability to spot toys in the trash can from miles away.

But…as annoying as eagle eyes may be, they certainly have their place in the classroom.

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Who doesn’t love Amazon?

Y’all…this mom lives on Amazon Prime!!  I seriously don’t know how I survived without it.  From school supplies to birthday presents to groceries, I love the convience of having stuff delivered right to my front door!

Sooo….I’m super excited to announce I’m helping give you a shot at a $150 Amazon gift card!

Seriously, $150!!  I could do alot of damage on Amazon with that!

If you’ve not heard about it on my Facebook or through my email list – I’m taking part in an awesome 10 days series with lots of other awesome bloggers.  You can read more about that here.

You’ll get 10 days of amazing teaching tips,  free resources and printables.   Be sure to sign up for my email list so you don’t miss it.

Entering is super duper easy!  And you’ll get a chance to check out the other bloggers and all the awesome stuff they are offering for free as well!

So what are you waiting for?!!

Enter today and score your chance to win this amazing gift card!!  And don’t forget to stay tuned for tons of other goodies from us in the next couple of weeks!

I’m not sure there are many people in the world who deserve a summer break as much as a teacher at the end of the school year.

Imagine your patience by the end of summer.  It’s relatively the size of a flea, right?  Now imagine how you’d feel if you took your child and multiplied them by 25, and then by 180 school days.

Yep, if anyone deserves a break, it’s teachers!  And though teacher appreciation week was just a few weeks ago, I still fully intend to send a sweet summer send off to my kid’s teachers!  It’s one last, “thank you for tolerating my children” gift to show our appreciation.

I’ve been seeing tons of cute end of year teacher gifts in my feed lately, so I decided to round them all up into one little post for quick reference.  You’ll have this year through senior year covered, so don’t forget to pin this one for later!

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By now, y’all know me and my holiday treat bags!  As a teacher, I loved to spoil my students at holidays and the tradition just kind of carried over when my own kids started school.

I saw those sweet little faces like up in my own classroom, and wanted to continue to spread that joy for my daughters’ little preschool friends!

The last day of school isn’t exactly a holiday, but it might as well be.  Teachers everywhere will soon lower temperatures nation wide, as they breath a collective sigh of relief!  And the excitment in the air from students?  It rivals Christmas.

So, like I said, might as well be a holiday!  So to celebrate, I like to send a little goodie on the last day of school too.

If you’re here, you’re either  parent, searching for the same, or a teacher searching for her class.  Either way,  I’ve got the mother-lode of cute end of year treat bag ideas.

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Father’s day is quickly approaching.  Why not give Dad a gift he can truly cherish?  I mean, everyone knows hand made gifts are the best, right?

I’ve rounded up some of the sweetest, funniest and easiest DIY Father’s Day gifts on Pinterest and compiled them all in this handy-dandy post just for you!

From funny to practical to sentimental,  Dad is sure to love the gifts on this list!  Better yet, these DIY Father’s Day gifts are easy and affordable too!

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I’ve seen all the posts of these sweet memory projects where people have converted one of their pictures into an SVG file. I’ve read a few tutorials, and thought I could easily do one myself.

I’ve been a photographer almost a decade, and have a good bit of experience with Photoshop, so it didn’t seem like it should be difficult. Convert it into a high contrast, black and white image, import it into my design software and trace. Simple, right?

Um…that’s a big fat NOPE!

That is of course until I stumbled upon one of the most helpful websites ever! It makes it super easy to turn photographs into svgs!

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I mean what Dad isn’t obsessed with poop?

For real y’all….  I remember the boys in my college dorms walking down the hallways discussing the impressive girth of their post burger bender poops. And how my 16 year old boyfriend  thought it was hilarious to fart in the car and then lock the windows so I couldn’t roll them down.

It seems they never grow out of that fascination either.  I think one my own husband’s proudest moments in life was when my daughter first pooped in the potty.

“Hey Mommy!  Look at this!  She did it!  And its HUGE!”

He tells all the cheesy Dad jokes about poop and seems a little too interested in his own brand of scents.  So these DIY Father’s Day Toilet Paper gifts are perfect for him!  And…they are super easy to make!!

So today I’m sharing this super quick and easy tutorial and a whole set of funny & free SVGs!

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I’m that dog mom and l own it.

While people have failed me, my dogs have always been there.

They don’t judge, they don’t hold grudges, in fact, they don’t talk at all.  They just offer unconditional, truly devoted, love.

So when my sweet pup turned 1, I planned a sweet & simple family birthday party and photo shoot to commemorate her first birthday.  And the results were absolutely adorable!

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The classroom countdown to summer has started.  School children everywhere are growing even more antsy by the day.

Teachers are feeling the pressure as the school year comes to a close and end of year assessments abound.  They know the reward of summer is just around the corner and anxiously await it.

Everyone is excited about summer (except maybe parents)!  What better way to show that excitement than through some adorable DIY projects?

Since summer fever is running wild in my house, I’ve decided to get a jump start on our end of the year projects!  I’ve already made cute shirts for my kiddos, and my teacher self has been scouring the internet in search of shirt ideas for my teacher friends.

So today, I’ve rounded up some of the cutest FREE end of  the school year SVGs for both students and teachers.  So whether, you’re a Mama, a teacher, a teacher Mama, or a Mama looking for the perfect gift for a teacher, I’ve got you covered with these amazing free cut files!

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Summer is my absolute favorite time of year.

Flip flops, swimming, beach trips, the smell of the fresh cut grass after a thunderstorm…. What’s not to love?

I eagerly await summer all year long.  Now that the countdown is short, I can’t contain my excitement and I’m already crafting up a summer storm!

So today I’ve rounded up over 20 amazing and FREE summer SVGs!  So if you’re a summer lover like me, you’ve hit the proverbial jackpot my friend!

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