New Year's Chance for a Give Away

Today is the last day of 2012. . . I've had a good time with this year. A lot has happened. . . and before it ends, I'm sure a lot more will happen.

The best part of this year is adding my granddaughter to our family. At 6 months old, she is so full of life and fun to be around. How can you NOT smile when you see her?

 Having all my kids around at Christmas was a huge thing. Thank God for family.

Worrying about my parents will be a normal thing from now on. Mom is still hospitalized and goes up and down. She says she is ready to go. She knows and we know she doesn't want to live a life in constant care by someone else. But ultimately, God gets to choose when she is ready to leave this Earth. Dad is now sick with a pretty bad upper respiratory infection, but he is on antibiotics and will wait for him to heal.

My blog anniversary is coming up soon. . .very soon. I can't tell you how happy I am that I started doing this. If anyone else is wondering IF they should make one. . . I would say "Go For IT!"  I've met people, learned things, shared things, created things and felt compassion for others here. It's a great safe place to go when you want to get away from your day job!

Speaking of creating. . . I bought some cute Valentine trains from Scrappin Doodles and thought I'd make something for my son-in-law's classroom. He teaches Kindergarten in Texas. I'm not sure if this activity is right where kinders need to be, if it's too easy, or too hard. I guess some of you will have to tell me.

It's a counting, sorting, and sequencing activity. It's bright, colorful and 

I've used some of my clip art from DJ Inkers. 

You can check this out in my TPT Store. 

I will also give 3 of them away by the end of tomorrow, the first day of 2013. I need you tell me about your favorite blog, or your own blog, or a new blog you just found out about. I want to see if there's a great blog that I haven't heard about that I should be following. Don't forget to follow me and leave your email address.

Happy New Year!
Patty

Sequencing and a Giveaway. . yup a chance for free.

It snowed beautifully this morning. . . Just like in a snow globe! 

That's the kind of winter I like.

I decided not to go to the hospital today as two of my other sisters were going to be there all day. I think it got confusing and overwhelming for mom and dad to have so many making decisions and talking. So my baby sister (she's no baby, believe me. . . she's 48!) stayed home. We'll both go tomorrow.  Mom had the scope today. They found 2 ulcers, put clips/staples in one and cauterized the other. Now we need to work on her blood pressure, and hemoglobin.

  I tell you what. .. . I know more about our bodies than I ever cared to know about!

In my  extra time here at home, I felt the need to create. So I made these cutsified sequencing activities. I had just purchased the clipart from Scrappin Doodles and knew that I needed to be productive today!

This set has numbers from 100-300.

This set has numbers from 300-600. They are very simple. Kids just need to arrange them in order from smallest to largest. Shouldn't take very long for them to do. There is nothing for them to write down, but there is an answer key if they want to check their work.

I'm selling each set for $2.00 each at my TPT Store.

I will give three of them away. Leave me a comment telling me which set you'd like, become one of my followers, leave your email address,  and I'll have my husband pick 3 random numbers to see who gets them.

I'll announce the winners tomorrow night sometime.

Have you visited Sos-Supply's Blogoversary giveaway yet? 

If not, you better get over there. Great prizes and all for free!

Patty

Blogoversary and Update On My MOM!

I'm joining Sue at SOS Supply for her one year anniversary give away! I know you'll want to stop by her blog and enter it. . . Wait till you see all the fun things that you could win! And I mean FUN!

I also want to share that I've been MIA for a couple days. . . my mom was admitted to a hospital on Christmas night and I've been with her and my sisters since then. My time is a blur. Long story . . . shortened. . . She has internal bleeding, found an ulcer, continues to bleed, change to a bigger hospital, throroughly go over all the questions. . . and put her into a new room. Tomorrow morning they'll do another scope to see if the ulcer in question looks same, different, or what?

I have felt the prayers of many many oodles of friends around the country. Boy that truly helps. At times I thought we were losing her and then she'd perk back up. . . I feel like we are in a good place right now and that she will get over this and be able to come home. Time will tell. But when you are 89. . . 90 in January. . . how much more of this can you do? My dad is worried. . . but tries to be the valiant one. . . what man wouldn't? His stubborness will help him through this.

I've seen a lot of great things going on while surfing the web on my ipad at the hospitals. . .but feel numb to take advantage of anything. It's funny how something like this can shadow over what used to be fun. I'll get back into it. . . . For now, I just want to say I love all of you and all of your support and the warm fuzzy feelings you give me.

It also causes me to think. . . if I feel this way about possibly losing my mom. . . how do all those parents in Newtown feel? Hmmmmm?

Now go over to SOS-Supply and support her celebration!

Patty