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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 453889" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Found a great thing for a teacher IF you can afford a gift in the $7-$10 range. It is a post-it note holder shaped like an apple. A 3-D apple. It is super cool! husband is finishing his temp job tomorrow because he will be overwhelmed with soccer and football games and teaching and working an 8-5 job even if he cuts down to 3 days a week. the teaching just eats too much time to do it right and he won't shortchange his students. Turns out his boss at the day job had a birthday today that he didn't know about. He was included in the singing and cake, they truly think of him as "one of them" which is SO UNUSUAL for this college. He wanted to do a gift for her as a thank you for keeping him on this long and when he learned it was her birthday wanted to make it something nice. I had seen these in ads but not in stores yet. Well, our Walmart had them for $7.88 and they are AWESOME!! I have a handmade gift bag it will fit in perfectly so he is set to go.</p><p></p><p>I forgot how violent Katie's boys are. I would think the foam floor puzzles would be good. Maybe something sewn to go on their walls or the felt board idea IF they can do that. So many of the things I would suggest they would need supervision with and they just won't get it with katie so those are out. maybe bean bag chairs? You can sew them fairly easily and then just ask easy child and nichole and anyone else who works to keep an eye out for shipments that come with packing peanuts that are not the dissolving ones (some are made out of cornstarch and dissolve with water - cool to play with but not for chairs). Otherwise a cheap beanbag chair maybe. They are great for various sensory things. I have memories of an electrified wire my dad made so we could cut up styrofoam that he brought home from his security job (from stuff the store unpacked for display). It was the only way we could afford to fill the beanbag chair my mom made for gfgbro for xmas. I think Mom, Dad and I spent a couple of weeks using every spare hour we could get him out of the house cutting up styrofoam, lol.</p><p></p><p>Would they appreciate a nice looking comfy outfit to go special places with Nana? Wiz and thank you both really liked having "good" clothes to wear to church and special occasions. We used to make up reasons to have a special occasion back when we only had Wiz because he got such a kick out of it. By the time thank you came along there were plenty of reasons to dress up so we didn't have to. but each of them LOVED to put on a tie and look "all growed up" as they called it. Not sure where they got the idea that ties were for special occasions because NONE of the males on my side or husband's wore them around the kids, but they would not be budged! </p><p></p><p>Maybe gifts for alex and evan should be experience gifts, short outings with nana with-o mom and dad or whatever to things they otherwise would never do. Even church might be one. That way it is short, maybe just one boy each time so you are not overwhelmed, they can learn decent manners with Nana, and get some special 1 on 1 time. Because they are going to turn anything into a weapon if they can hurt with foam blocks. Even Wiz never managed THAT!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 453889, member: 1233"] Found a great thing for a teacher IF you can afford a gift in the $7-$10 range. It is a post-it note holder shaped like an apple. A 3-D apple. It is super cool! husband is finishing his temp job tomorrow because he will be overwhelmed with soccer and football games and teaching and working an 8-5 job even if he cuts down to 3 days a week. the teaching just eats too much time to do it right and he won't shortchange his students. Turns out his boss at the day job had a birthday today that he didn't know about. He was included in the singing and cake, they truly think of him as "one of them" which is SO UNUSUAL for this college. He wanted to do a gift for her as a thank you for keeping him on this long and when he learned it was her birthday wanted to make it something nice. I had seen these in ads but not in stores yet. Well, our Walmart had them for $7.88 and they are AWESOME!! I have a handmade gift bag it will fit in perfectly so he is set to go. I forgot how violent Katie's boys are. I would think the foam floor puzzles would be good. Maybe something sewn to go on their walls or the felt board idea IF they can do that. So many of the things I would suggest they would need supervision with and they just won't get it with katie so those are out. maybe bean bag chairs? You can sew them fairly easily and then just ask easy child and nichole and anyone else who works to keep an eye out for shipments that come with packing peanuts that are not the dissolving ones (some are made out of cornstarch and dissolve with water - cool to play with but not for chairs). Otherwise a cheap beanbag chair maybe. They are great for various sensory things. I have memories of an electrified wire my dad made so we could cut up styrofoam that he brought home from his security job (from stuff the store unpacked for display). It was the only way we could afford to fill the beanbag chair my mom made for gfgbro for xmas. I think Mom, Dad and I spent a couple of weeks using every spare hour we could get him out of the house cutting up styrofoam, lol. Would they appreciate a nice looking comfy outfit to go special places with Nana? Wiz and thank you both really liked having "good" clothes to wear to church and special occasions. We used to make up reasons to have a special occasion back when we only had Wiz because he got such a kick out of it. By the time thank you came along there were plenty of reasons to dress up so we didn't have to. but each of them LOVED to put on a tie and look "all growed up" as they called it. Not sure where they got the idea that ties were for special occasions because NONE of the males on my side or husband's wore them around the kids, but they would not be budged! Maybe gifts for alex and evan should be experience gifts, short outings with nana with-o mom and dad or whatever to things they otherwise would never do. Even church might be one. That way it is short, maybe just one boy each time so you are not overwhelmed, they can learn decent manners with Nana, and get some special 1 on 1 time. Because they are going to turn anything into a weapon if they can hurt with foam blocks. Even Wiz never managed THAT! [/QUOTE]
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