Daily Five Clip Chart

Today had the beginnings of being a "terrible, horrible, no good very bad day"! We woke up to bright sunshine and not to our alarm clock. We had no electrical power. We had to get to church early today, so no time to shower or wash my hair...Yuck! No coffee could be made. We couldn't figure out how to use our "Smart" dumb phone to call Consumers Energy. During church I realized I had gone to college with the couple sitting behind me. They commented that I hadn't changed a bit...Great, dirty hair and no make-up is how they remember me!

I'm happy to say that things did look up! My young parent Bible class was very meaningful and we talked about being "Faith Whisperers" in the lives of our children. (This idea has come to me as I read The Book Whisperer which IS as good as everyone says!) I left church feeling very different than how I had walked in and was so happy to come home to a house lit up like a Christmas Tree! We had turned lights on, but not off during the outage!

I would be able to play with my electric toys! My daughter's bedroom has been converted into my craft room. Every vertical surface is covered with paper or fabric! No more basement for me . . . I'm moving up in the world! Check this out...

Underneath this paper there IS a bed!

Today I found yet more paper to laminate! I love the way these turned out...

Come closer!

I've been using my marker board to do my Daily Five rotations. This will be so much more fun. I used my Cricut to cut the puzzle pieces out and then laminated them with my very own PaperMonster laminator. The thick lamination is so sturdy this will last for years!! I used a dry erase marker to write on them, so they can be erased and used for all kinds of things! 

I love this machine! I'm so happy I get to give one away!
Will it be you? I hope so!

Did you know you can win your very own laminator? I blogged about it yesterday and today
I added another way to enter.  Just scroll down a little and see what I added!

Falling for Fall! GiveAway and Freebie!

Happy first day of FALL! I think this is my favorite season, but I'll be honest with you . . . I love them all. However, only Fall brings crunching leaves, pumpkins and fresh apples. I've never gone on a hayride in any other season. Even though I started going to football games to watch the marching band, I've actually started to enjoy the game. Fall, I greet you with joy!

This is a picture from last  autumn!

Next fall I hope to visit my friend Laurie from Chickadee Jubilee and watch the Chimney Swifts make their fall appearance. Go check them out  HERE and enjoy the new blog design by Barb from Ruby Slippers Blog Design...I'm hoping she can join us when we slide down the hill on cardboard boxes waiting for the birds to arrive!

Could you "fall" for a laminator? I did! I have fallen in love with my very own PaperMonster Laminator! Since MyBinding.com sent me one to review I have been busy laminating everything in sight! I'm even using it to make my school's student and teacher ID cards. It does an amazing job and puts a very strong protective coat on everything I've put through it. It is priced affordably and takes up very little space. It is light weight enough for me to easily take from home to school and back home again. I would have liked more information about it in the directions department, but most of my questions were answered in the wonderful video MyBindings.com has on its site.


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