An Award

I was super surprised and happy to receive an award from 4 awesome bloggers! Thank you to Lil' Country Kindergarten (thanks also to Marlena for making me a blog button!!), A Rainbow of Teaching, and Let's Teach Something for awarding me:

The Versatile Blogger Award rules:

1. Thank the person who nominated you with a link back to them. Thanks to all the ladies mentioned above...I'm just happy someone is actually reading this blog!!

2. Tell 7 things about yourself

1. I have wanted to teach kindergarten for as long as I can remember. I can remember telling my 1st grade teacher it's what I wanted to do and I never changed my mind! In high school, I mentored under an awesome kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Shelley, and I continued going to her classroom throughout college during my breaks. She really is the reason I love kindergarten and why I think I try to be creative in what I do.
2. I have the most awesome family in the whole world. They all (husband, mom, sister, grandparents, aunt, cousins, inlaws) do so much for my classroom and I can't thank them enough!
3. I left the VERY small town in south Alabama I lived in growing up to go to college at Samford University in Birmingham, where I knew NO ONE! It was the best decision I ever made. I met the best friends in the world and went to the most AMAZING education school. Seriously...if you want to be teacher, go to Samford.
4. I am a clipart and font junkie. It was a joke in college that all of the girls and I in my education block could tell you exactly what font something was in and which computers on campus had that font!
5. I have been very lucky during my 8 years of teaching to have worked for 2 wonderful schools. I started near my hometown (but over the border in Florida) for the first 5 years, where I was the baby of the teachers for a while and inherited about 10 other moms. I then left and taught 2 years in Louisiana and worked at another wonderful school and met great friends (FYI - a lot of parishes are great to work for there and have TONS of great technology, which I miss!). After not thinking I was going to teach this year due to my husband being in a very bad car accident, I was blessed to have the opportunity to come back to my first school in Florida, where we could be close to our families.
6. I am a major blog-stalker and because of all the great blogs I read, I finally decided to start my own.
7. I couldn't think of a last one, so I asked my husband something interesting and he said that I like sports, which is very true! I will watch ESPN, football, baseball, etc. even when he's not around...name an NFL player and I can probably tell you the team they play for :).
Wow...that was a little bit long..sorry!

3. Pass this award on to 12 other newly discovered blogs and let them know they received an award.

Golden Gang Kindergarten
Little Miss Glamour
Mrs. Kimbrell - War Eagle!
Under the Alphabet Tree
The Kindergarten Corral
Can Do Kinders
Kinderzoo
Loving and Learning in PreK
Creating and Teaching
Adventures of Miss Elizabeth
Empowering Little Learners
The Lucas Family - not teaching, but super cute pics of my niece :)

I would also like to thank Stephanie from Kinder Kiddo for giving me this award:


Thanks again ladies and go check out the blogs I listed...they have some great ideas!