Flashback Friday....It's My BIRTHDAY!!!!!

SO...today is my BIRTHDAY!!!  Forget the fact that I'm halfway to 70....as Mr. Spouse likes to remind me every chance he gets...but it's my day!!!  I love ANY excuse to celebrate and, well, finally being halfway to 70 sounds like the perfect reason to party!

I want to celebrate with YOU.

Yes, YOU.

So my entire store is 20% off today!!!!

AND....that's not all.

I'm giving away EVERYTHING in my ENTIRE store to one friend today!

But you have to head over to Facebook to enter.

In the meantime, I'm flashing back to an old post I wrote a couple of years ago...all about birthdays!  Pretty fitting, don'tcha think?!?!

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originally posted July 25, 2012

Since today is my birthday, I wanted to share with y’all what I do for birthdays in my classroom.  I always hated having a summer birthday when I was growing up…no chance to celebrate at school!  Dangit!!  I know my school babies feel the same way, so it’s important I have a little something for everyone.  Each of my kiddos gets to wear a H-U-G-E birthday button {you can get them at the Dollar Tree…and they’re the size of your head :)  Seriously, though…they remind me of the big ol’ buttons that NKOTB used to sell…I had them ALL.} 

I adhere ribbon to it so they can wear it like a necklace…SO much easier than sticking them with a pin! 

At the end of the day….after we sing a little “happy birthday” before heading out the door…I hand the birthday baby a birthday bag full of fun little goodies!

The bags matched my theme last year.  The boys got green balloons and the girls got pink.  I just traced a balloon template {freehand…sorry, no tracer!} onto scrapbook paper, typed up a little “happy birthday”, cut, paste, curled, and voila! 

I like to make all these bags at once before the start of the school year.  You know as well as I do that as soon as the school year starts, things get crazy.  Doing everything at the beginning of the year saves me time…and gives me a peace of mind…for the rest of the year.  I always make several extra just incase I get a few new friends throughout the year.  I shop the back to school aisles of Wal Mart for the goodies inside.  Depending on school rules and regulations…and student allergies…I throw in a few little pieces of candy, a bookmark, a Happy Birthday pencil, and crayons.  You can find the crayons at Wal Mart for 50cents a pack right now!!!  HURRY!

The kids LOVE this gift!!!  I also throw in a little birthday certificate into the mix.  Click on the pic to download yours!

Quick, E-A-S-Y, and inexpensive!!!  I love being able to give my kids something I know they’ll put to good use and they couldn’t be more thrilled to be recognized on their special day!!  For my sweeties who celebrate during the summer, we *celebrate* their half birthday during the school year :)