Through out the last few years, my family has enjoyed the adventures of our elf, Jingle Bells! I wanted to capture a few of his antics to share with you. Jingle Bells joined our family and soon started reeking havoc all over our house! He even came with a suitcase of clothes. Jingle Bells seems to be attracted to shiny objects- whether they be bath beads or lights on the Christmas tree. He also loves to find nooks and crannies to hide or a place to just hang out! This year, Jingle Bells even tried to disguise himself by sneaking into the play mustaches! We weren't fooled though! Our elf also loves to play with toys and is always up for building a snowman (even when there isn't any snow outside)! Our elf will always find a way to entertain us! I would love to hear what kind of trouble your elf has gotten into this year! What are you favorite elf antics? Jingle Bells is always looking for interesting ways to get into trouble! Thank you for reading, Happy Holidays!
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This is the best thing in the world when in comes to managing behavior around the holidays! Even when kids don't believe, you can still have a blast doing it. I use the elf as both a behavior management system and teaching tool. The elf that visits my classroom each year will do the craziest things, to include leaving notes when the kids are out of the room. She's also a little troublemaker, because let's face it, she's only let out of the North Pole once a year! I have found and used tons of ideas off of Pinterest over the years but I wanted to add a few of my own as well. Each year, my elf tries to help us out with different things. My favorite was when she was swinging on the Holiday Ornaments and halfway through the math lesson she "fell" over and started swinging by her feet. Now to a classroom of seven-year-olds, no matter whether they believed or not, they all freaked out a little bit. Cries of "She's moving" and "The Elf is real" filled the classroom. Needless to say, we were a little off task for that lesson, but for the rest of the day the kids really were fabulous. Each one tried to behave in ways they normally didn't. My second favorite memory of the elf is when she placed herself on top of our intercom box. During the announcements she promptly bounced herself right off the box and nose dived onto the floor! At the time, the class I had was really sweet and didn't really need to extra behavior incentive, but it was all in good fun. One of the sweetest kids in the class ran over, grabbed the elf, and gave it a huge hug telling her it would all be okay. Now, if you've every had anything to do with the Elf on the Shelf, rule number one is do NOT touch the elf of they lose their magic. Luckily, this was in the morning, and I could recover. The elf wrote the class a cute note explaining that Santa decided to give them one more chance, since they were being helpful like a good friend should be. The rest of the week was great, and the Elf learned to secure herself where ever she landed. Naughty Elf, getting into the candy dish! Those are of the children. Are those wrappers stuck down in the printer?!? I'd love to see other pictures of your Elf's misbehavior! Please feel free to leave me comments or pictures below! Thanks for reading.
I wanted to take a minute to give you a little preview of my brain, and the books I grew up reading. I have a deep love for reading and I think it goes back to one of the favorite memories of my mom. When I was little, my mom would read to my brothers and I that each night. I remember when in upper elementary school, she would sit in between our rooms in the doorway and read from a chapter book. Each night I would fall asleep to the stories she would tell. I still revisit some of my favorite childhood authors. I remember eating through the Box Car Children (by Gertrude Warner), Goosebumps (RL Stine), Babysitter Club (Ann Martin). In high school I read a little of this and that, but my favorites were the Fear Street series (RL Stine), The Secret Circle (or anything LJ Smith, prior to the Vampire Diaries TV series), The Canterbury Tales (in Old English, by Geoffrey Chaucer), Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury). I also enjoyed The Hobbit (Tolkien), and Needful Things (or anything by Stephen King). I loved books! Without the distraction of video games or TV shows, I had some time. It was normal to find a good paperback in my bag at all time. My current reading list includes several different genre. I love books by Patricia Briggs (including the Mercy Thompson series), Revelations of Deceit (Corban Dain), Wicked As They Come (Delilah Dawson), Glass Hearts (Renee Lovins), In her Closet series (Tasha Harrison), A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences (Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris), Pawn- Ironclad Bodyguard (Molly Joseph/Annabel Joseph), the Wheel of Time series (Robert Jordan), and Wayward Pines (Blake Crouch). With so many fabulous books out there, it's hard to chose. I have found the best way to enjoy a new book is to just grab one and jump it! Happy reading!
I challenge you to leave a book (either a favorite book or one on your book bucket list) below in the comment section! I am curious to see what other #avidreaders are reading! I thought I would share a little of my journey into motherhood with everyone. Having a child was not without it's ups and downs. Getting pregnant itself wasn't without it's difficulties. Ten years of trying and I finally gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. There is not a minute that has gone by that I haven't loved being a mother. It used to be that when I saw someone who was pregnant it would make me want to cry, but now I get so excited for them. The miracle of being a mom. I realize everyday how truly blessed I am to have found someone to both share my life with and to raise a child with.
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I am an inspired soul who loves to write and take photographs. I read and write constantly and have been inspired by many people throughout my life. I grew up reading everything I could get my hands on but my favorites were always R.L. Stine and L.J. Smith (prior to the Vampire Diaries). I have composed many things through the past several years and would like to use this blog as a way to share some of them with you (both new and old writings). I would love feedback both positive and negative to help me improve my writing. Thank you for following this blog. Archives
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