Proud Mama

I wanted to share with you some of the amazing things my Daughter's have been up to. Hannah was recently elected to the the Soroptomist Student of the month at her middle school and also was elected to attend the young authors conference with a few other selected children from her middle school.

Hannah is pictured far right in this photo that appeared on the middle school website. She also made the honor role!

Alex was just honored with the rest of the honor role students at the high school. She achieved a 3.8 this last semester. She is 100% independent in doing her homework and I know that when she earns those A's she feels a true sense of accomplishments. Alex also started Driver's Ed. this week and yesterday I took her for her first drive. :) There is something special when your daughter looks at you in awe after she has driven for the first time. "MOM, you make it look so easy... you're amazing!" That was a cool Mom moment.

We had a sit down with Peppers teacher and it was most interesting.  Seems that Pepper is at the top of her 3rd grade class! Her teacher says that she is getting the highest scores in her class. I'm not sharing this to brag... I'm just awfully excited for her! She is a bit shy and it seems that this year she has found a group in her class with the same quirky and fun sense of humor. I think this has been key in helping her excell... her comfort and ease among her peers. Its so neat to see her bloom this year! All of my girls are strong readers... but Pepper burns holes in books... she reads them so fast!

Ella has been learning how to read. I'm one of those parents that try to get them started reading as soon as I can. She has shown interest these last few months and we checked out these books at the library... these are truly the BEST if you are helping a pre-reader learn. She is hysterical as she reads the story back to me... she even uses special voices! LOL! Ella starts Kindergarten next year. it will be interesting how we both adjust. For now I will just savor her reading and ballet.

You may have noticed that I mentioned reading a lot when it comes to my girls. I was a terrible reader and student. I even had to take some reading classes. Early education was hard for me so I have done everything possible to facilitate their early education. Looking back I can see that its paid off for them and also re-iterated that our weaknesses can become our strengths! Now... what does this have to do with stamping and papercrafting? I'm a strong believer that when we try to improve on our weaknesses in stamping... practice and step out of the box... we can accomplish so much more... we grow and become strong, we become more confident and better crafters!

Thanks for stoping by... for some eye candy check out Nichole's and Taylor's Blogs as they WOW you with their sneak peek count downs for Papertrey Ink's April 15th release!