Playing With Words 365

Educating, inspiring, and empowering parents & professionals in supporting young children's overall development

My First Blog Award!

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Well last week I received a blog award! The Versatile Blogger award! Carrie over at Crafty Mom Share presented me with this last Tuesday. Carrie is a high school math teacher turned stay-at-home mom who loves to craft with her adorable daughter. Make sure to check out her blog and follow her of you don’t already! She has some great craft ideas (and you know I love crafts!) She also has a linky party, Sharing Saturday, that I recommend you check out also!

Now this blog award comes with some rules:

  • Thank the person that nominated you with a link back to them (done)
  • Tell 7 things about yourself.
  • Pass this award on to 15 newly discovered blogs and let them know that they’ve received an award!

Seven Things About Myself

  1. I LOVE to read, but lately end up falling asleep after only a few pages!
  2. I grew up in the mountains with SNOW and miss it terribly this time of year (though its just a short 3 hour drive to visit my parents!)
  3. I love rain.
  4. I am both an only child and the youngest child 😉
  5. I love me a pair of nice designer jeans…but haven’t bought a new pair in a while because they are so expensive and lately I just love dressing my kids up instead 😉
  6. I need a 12 step program for my addiction to Starbucks.
  7. I have not “slept through the night” in over three years and I wouldn’t change it for anything.

And 15 blogs I have found recently that I think ROCK

  1. Reading Confetti– Reading specialist turned SAHM
  2. Ready Set Read! Another reading specialist turned SAHM
  3. Royal Baloo and Logi Bear Too A homeschooling mama- great free printables!
  4. What’s Fun Today? Kindergarten teacher turned SAHM
  5. Criss Cross Applesauce Another teacher who is currently a SAHM Great activities (free printables!)
  6. Speech Room News A fellow SLP, her blog is just AMAZING! Parents, Teachers and SLPs will find something here (FREE PRINTABLES!)
  7. Happy Hooligans Mother and childcare provider with great play and craft activities
  8. Cachey Mama’s Classroom Mama and headstart teacher- great preschool ideas
  9. Toys In The Dryer cute blog by two moms!
  10. Moms Town Calgary North A new blog with some great activities!
  11. Learning 4 Kids Adorable site with great activities and FREE printables!
  12. Whole Child Creative Curriculum Preschool kits, crafts, and FREEBIES!
  13. Learning Ideas Great site with all kinds of, you guessed it, Learning Ideas 😉
  14. Love and Lollipops Lots of fun, cute family and child activities
  15. Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds Sheryl is a preschool teacher with lots of great ideas!

And, one bonus site, that I know already got this blog award last month, but I recently came across it and think other parents and educators should take a look: Deceptively Educational.

Thanks again Carrie for the award!!

Well, my daughter and I are working on a new printable book for this Friday’s Freebie Friday…with a fun activity to go along with it. It involves a reindeer…I can’t wait to share it with you Friday! Until then, I have some other great posts coming up. Make sure to check out my new Thrifty Thursday Linky Party and link up of you’d like! We have had some GREAT activities linked up. This Thursday I will be featuring a few of my favorites!

Cheers!

About Katie

Katie is a licensed, credentialed and certified pediatric speech-language pathologist and mom to four (8, 6, 3 and 6 months). Her passion for educating, inspiring and empowering parents of children with all abilities led her to start her blog playing with words 365 where she shares information about speech & language development & intervention strategies, parenting, photography and a little about her family life too. Katie has been working in the field of speech pathology for 12 years and is certified in The Hanen Centre’s It Takes Two to Talk ® and Target Word ® programs and holds a certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). In addition to blogging and being a mommy, Katie works part time in her small private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can follow her on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter.

Comments

  3. Marcia says

    Hi Katie, Thank you so much! I am thrilled to be included! I love your site and the new striped holiday design is great also!
    Marcia 🙂

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  7. Deceptively Educational says

    Thanks SO much, Katie. I’m truly flattered that you think so highly of my site that you’d add it as a “BONUS.” I LOVE blogging almost as much as I like creating fun educational activities for my son. It means so much to be recognized by amazing fellow bloggers like yourself! Thanks again!

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    • Katie says

      You are SO welcome! I just felt that I couldn’t leave you out 😉 Thanks again for sharing all your awesome ideas!

      Reply

  8. Lori says

    Thank you so much for the award. Some of the other blogs you nominated are new to me, so I will have fun checking them out. I am also loving your blog. Such great ideas for literacy!

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  9. momstown Calgary says

    Wow! Thank you so much. This is our first award, and I’m so honoured to receive it. I’m really enjoying your blog too, and looking forward to the next Thrifty Thursdays linkup. Thank you for all of the great ideas and resources you share.

    Reply

  11. Lisa says

    Thank you so much Kaite! This is my first blog award too! I’m truly flattered that you would think of me! Looking forward to this week’s Thrifty Thursday!

    Lisa

    Reply

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