The Sadler Family: end of school year gifts

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Sunday, August 15, 2021

First post in 2021????

I always try to update this blog when I have time off school!!!! I realized I didn't update during Winter or Spring Break and now SUMMER BREAK is over in two days!!!!

A lot has happened since my last update!

Christmas was just us - COVID Christmas wasn't much fun - but it was still nice!

This year's ornaments

Gifts for co-workers

Anyone who knows me - knows this is the best gift EVER!

GIFT CARDS

My new office chair

Ryan was excepted into the manager training program with Jewel and has been going full steam from department to department learning the ins and outs of the grocery business! He was transferred to another store a few months ago and will be going into another store in about a week. He's hoping to return to the store he is currently at because he enjoys working there! Fingers crossed!

All three of us are fully vaccinated and hoping to stay healthy. In February, Bill tested positive for the coronavirus! Five days later I tested positive. It was HORRIBLE! With Bill's diaphragm condition it was scary! He had to get chest x-rays every other day and was put on many antibiotics! Thankfully he recovered. I was off work most of February and experienced the typical symptoms: WORST HEADACHE EVER, loss of taste and smell for over a week (horrible), cough, and tired! I was unable to even lift my head from my pillow with the COVID Headache!

Bill continues to have many procedures, tests, and infusions in hope they will begin to see improvement with his diaphragm! We continue to hold out hope we will see some improvement, but at times it gets very discouraging considering it's been a year of treatment.

In May, we celebrated the lives of three of my uncles who passed away during the pandemic. It was great to see family who we haven't seen in a long time, however, the circumstances wasn't ideal!

These were the gifts I gave at the end of last school year.

With most of the year remote and on zoom - I only worked with a small amount of people!

Retirement Gifts for another Teaching Assistant and for the person I am replacing in the LMC!

The first week out of school, I purchased a new car! It doesn't LOOK any different than my former Impala - same body style and color - but a few years newer and only 1700 miles on it!

My niece is getting so BIG! The last time I updated she was only a month old and now in a couple months will already be ONE! Look at this sweet face!

The biggest news is that I was approached about making a change at work/school! I was asked to be the LMC (Library Media Center) Assistant in the mornings and continue as a Special Education Teacher Assistant in the afternoons!

The library has not been updated or "cleaned up" in a very long time. I've spent a good portion of my summer over at the school creating, cleaning and learning the new responsibilities of a LMC Assistant!

Here are some BEFORE and AFTER comparisons!

These are the signs I created for the displays

Here is the final results!

Here are some other projects I have been creating!

Back to school little gifts

Classroom signs

These gumball jars from Target were a hot commodity and hard to find! Everyone was posting how to paint them to use them for displays! Here's some of my creations:

Now they have them in WHITE! I hit the jackpot on a Saturday morning!

Lastly, I already ordered Ryan's ornament for this upcoming Christmas!

That's the latest! Hope to update sooner next time!

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

School's Out For Summer!!! What's Been Going On!

SCHOOLS OUT FOR SUMMER! 71 DAYS OFF THIS SUMMER - WHICH IS LESS THAN USUALLY SINCE WE HAD TO MAKE UP SEVERAL SNOW DAYS - BUT I'LL TAKE IT !!!

The time off always allows for a blog update to recap what's been going on since the last time I posted! Which happened to be Winter Break!

In my previous post-January found us redoing Ryan's bedroom.

February was Valentine's Day. I ordered these cute pennies from Jane.com - The year on the pennies are 1993, which happens to be the year Bill and I were married. One is stamped with the date and the other is our initials.

I made little treat bags for my fellow co-workers. I printed the saying: "You are SCENT-sational and truly re-MARK-able" There were scented markers inside each bag with some candy.

The bigger bags were gifts for both Ryan and Bill

On Valentine's Day, a good friend and fellow teacher fell walking her son's dog and broke her ankle. We collected items for a sunshine basket and I delivered it to her along with this card I made.

Some fun treats to help pass the time along with a gift card to Teachers Pay Teachers!

March was St. Patrick's Day! I made these little treat containers for my fellow co-workers and family members. Inside each pot was a variety of candy that is wrapped in gold wrappers.

The saying on the front of each clay pot read: YOU ARE THE POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE/OUR RAINBOW

March also brought Bill to the dermatologist. He has had a "suspicious" spot on top of his head for quite some time. Several doctors/nurses told him to get it looked at - it started getting bigger and darker so I finally made an appointment and there was a cancellation allowing him to go directly from work that day! THANKFULLY it was a Seborrheic keratosis and non-cancerous! The dermatologist froze the spot and within a week or two scabbed up and fell of!

April was my Mom's birthday and Easter. (all in the same weekend). We celebrated her birthday the weekend before, so she could have a day to herself!

Easter is one of my favorite holidays to decorate - I love bunnies and I love the pastel colors!

I made these bunny "butts" out of styrofoam balls and clay pots

Easter plastic eggs with letter stickers glued onto spools of thread

Cute bunnies from embroidery hoops and burlap

and these cute little bunny gift bags for fellow co-workers.

Each bunny bag had an egg as a gift tag.

Ryan's never too old for an Easter Basket!

(Allow "the Easter Bunny" no longer hides the basket for him to find!)

I ordered these eggs from Jane.com - I LOVE HOW THEY TURNED OUT! I decided to keep them out year round and found a nest and sign to keep them in.

My supervisor had back surgery and was going to be off work for six weeks. I made this card to go along with a gift to let her know how much she would be missed!

May was Mother's Day. We celebrated with a Chinese Buffet!

The end of the school year is ALWAYS so hectic. A LOT GOING ON!

There have been some changes in which grades some of the teachers will be teaching next year - so I was asked to make a few classroom signs:

I made these cards from Tiny Print to give along with some "year-end" gifts

This is what the outside of the envelopes looked like:

I made these frames for a friend who was transferred to another school last year and our LMC director:

I designed notecards (front and inside) for several other teachers and the principal - they turned out so cute.

I made two of these letter boards. One for a teacher who retired at the end of the year. I worked with her for 18 years and she was the first teacher I worked with when started as a Teaching Assistant. The other was for another teacher who I've worked with for 18 years and was transferred to another school next year.

I wrapped it in cellophane and topped it with flowers and leaves.

The notecards fit into a cellophane bag perfectly.

Here are all the End Of The School Year gifts I created:

The staff made an ABC book for our retiring teacher. I went through 19 yearbooks and was able to create the "N" page in the book:

My friend/co-worker was picking up her puppy the day after school was out - I placed this on her desk to get her through the final week of school:

For the month of May, I was asked to create a display and posters for a fundraiser. Students brought in coins and donated them into the jar that represented the teacher/principal they wanted to dye their hair the last week of school! I found a website to change each of the participant's hair to the color they said they would dye their hair if they won! It turned out really nice!

These posters will stay in the display case until they run/walk in October

May brought Ryan close to graduating with his bachelor's degree!

TWO MORE CLASSES and A SEMINAR and he will be done on August 25th!

Spring Semester was an AWESOME one for him!

STRAIGHT "A's"

Which placed him on the Dean's List!

(fun fact: my uncle's son is also on the list - my grandma would have been so proud!)

June was our 26th Wedding Anniversary - and as always I got a wide array of gift cards!

This is random - but during my oil change, my brother found this nest sitting on the engine of my car! We believe it to be a squirrel's nest! Thankfully it didn't start a fire or the squirrel didn't eat any of my wires!