As someone with a birthday stuck right in the middle of summer, I totally sympathize with the problem (no teacher birthday = no gift certificate to your favorite nail salon and sushi place... oh is that just our school?) But also I think there's probably a cut off age for half birthdays....maybe before thirty?
Regardless, as our family does not contribute the "suggested teacher gift donation amount" of $75 per child, and Wren loves her teacher anyway, I end up making the presents.
So far this year Wren helped me whip up a batch of orange body scrub from the Martha recipe for the Christmas gifts, and Chase and I made a bunch of apple butter for previous birthdays. This is the last of the year though, and I remembered that note about 5 minutes before I wanted to be sleeping.
Last night I grabbed the scrap bag and the hem of an old pair of pants and pieced this little rice eye bag. It's just a sloppy rectangle, basically, first sewn right sides together, with a little opening, and then top stitched to keep the rice from escaping. I added a few drops of lavender/chamomile essential oil to the rice, to make it nice and calming, I hope.
I hope Wren's teacher likes it. We have a parent conference coming up on Monday, so if she is allergic to rice/and/or/chamomile and lavender I guess I'll find out then.
And Jane's conference is this Friday morning.
Jane. Who is 2. And has a conference. Possible discussion topics:
- How is the pooping going?
- And what about the nose picking?
STAY TUNED. I will find out all the details soon enough.
3 comments:
I am 30 and plan to celebrate my half birthday in a few months :)
And the gift you made is very thoughtful, specially for a teacher!
this post makes me crazy with rage. maybe this is my lifetime of public school talking, but teachers don't have birthdays and they most certainly do not get $75 PER CHILD on their freaking HALF birthday.
this is deranged.
i really like your present choices, though. you are actually the best last minute present maker ever.
So funny.
I am childless, but my niece is a teacher -- in east Harlem in NYC bless her -- and I don't think she ever sent birthday notices home with the kids, even if hers is in January. Though she is 31, lol. I will have to ask her if there is a "suggested gift" of anything per child!
It is a win win though to make gifts for teachers your babies love though, right? To make apple butter with them even better. I bow to you that you can sew! My mother did and I never had the knack.. Ironically, I have been a fashion stylist for people on stage and TV and film for years, lol.
I have to check out the body scrub.
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