This is one of the few times in the year that the kids give their classmates little gifts. With these gifts we like to include little cards but we also limit our spending, so we will usually make up our own cards. These are the ones that we made for the our kids this year...
small, simple and in rose and blue.

Doing these got me thinking and I decided to make a modified version of these for any of you to use for your kids...especially if you are like me and doing these last minute :)

So if you are in need of quick Easter postcard style cards, help yourselves to these. Simply print on thick or cardstock paper, cut and have your kids sign their names on them. Each card is 3" x 2.25" and there are three colours available. Please help yourselves and please let me know how you used them :)

Our children, age 4 and 5, truly enjoy giving and receiving little gifts from their classmates. As fun as it is, we make it a point to spend as little as possible and to give non candy gifts (except for Halloween...that just seems cruel otherwise). 
Last year we gave their classmates chalk eggs (link here) and below are this years gifts.

That is it....simple, affordable, candy free and fun for the kiddies.

Every new year, we take the last day of our Christmas vacation to do one big final house re-org. This includes taking down Christmas decorations, taking older toys out of circulation/prepping them for the donation bin and putting up my new calendar. Also, every year I say I will have my calendar up at home and on here earlier but it just doesn't 'feel' right until I am officially at the end of vacation mode. So why fight it!

The calendar I created for this year is a little different than what I usual do...I went bigger (legal), portrait and most definitely more colourful. If you like it and still need a 2014 Calendar, feel free to print off a copy for yourself.

Tomorrow is officially the end of our Christmas vacation. As we do every new year, we spent some time this first week to purge and organize the house..ahhhh so nice. We also took down all of our Christmas decorations this weekend and as I always do every new year, I put up my new calendar up a week late...grrrrrr! 
Note: Item #8 on my things to accomplish this year.....have new calendar done in November and up in December.

If you are a little behind like I was and still need a 2013 calendar, you are more then welcome to print off a copy for yourself. Enjoy and Happy New Year.

If you are like me, you are just finishing up your "New Year" clean, purge and organizing ritual. I finally got to putting up my new one page calendar. I made one for my studio and one for my work place cubicle. If you are still in the need of a 2012 Calendar, you are more then welcome to print off a copy for yourself. Happy New Year.

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