Yeah, I guess. I just...well, all the other teachers gave gifts. This would have been helpful information to have. Well, actually, I don't think the other part-time teachers did, so I guess it's ok.

I'm at my parents and near tears. I'm beyond exhausted. It's at least 2 hours past when I've been going to bed lately. Mom and Dad aren't even home yet, and the room I'm sleeping in hasn't been gotten ready yet. Actually, there's a lot that's not ready, considering my brother and nephew arrive at around 11am tomorrow.

I. Need. Bed. Now.

I need to get Owen's teachers gifts. He has three, as well as a speech therapist and an occupational therapist. Are $10 Target gift cards too cheap and impersonal?

Cashmere, I think that's perfect. I got a $25 gift certificate from one of my families...from two kids. I think that's great, especially since there are so many of them.

Thanks, vw. We also have to buy for the daycare girls at the gym--and there are five or six of them. I like to spread the cheer on the holidays but it's being spread a little thinly this year.

Oh, yeah! Definitely! Honestly, I'm always surprised when the kiddos/parents remember me. Which sounds terrible, but I don't mean it that way. So, I think it's very sweet that you're doing something for all of those people.

Whew! I just tromped up and down the hill over the highway to visit a friend and bring cookies and lament relationships (he just got dumped today...for the third time by the same girl. He swears he won't take her back for a fourth time. I'm hoping) He made me dinner. It was good. I'm like "why can't he and I just like each other? We'd be so perfect together! We're already "secretly married" on facebook!"

Whew! I just tromped up and down the hill over the highway to visit a friend and bring cookies and lament relationships (he just got dumped today...for the third time by the same girl. He swears he won't take her back for a fourth time. I'm hoping)

Bec and I broke up and got back together thirteen times before we got married. Not a comment on your friend's sitch, I should make that clear. Just jogged a memory.

Are $10 Target gift cards too cheap and impersonal?

You can always add some homemade goodies.

We've got that covered, too. I rolled out the cookie dough and the kids did the cutting tonight. A few Christmas cookies will be included.

Yeah, I guess. I just...well, all the other teachers gave gifts. This would have been helpful information to have. Well, actually, I don't think the other part-time teachers did, so I guess it's ok.

Woman - chill! (a) You are not a full time teacher anyway; (b) even if you were, it's still TOTALLY AT YOUR DISCRETION; (c) kids are generally MORE excited about playing a fun game/baking cookies/receiving praise and a sticker than they are about being handed a present. I know this, because I do do the present thing, and some years they've STILL all gone home grumpy and feeling ripped off just because one kid won a big present in pass-the-parcel. (Said present being a truly crappy kitsch jokey Secret Santa present I'd just been handed, and promptly rewrapped and given away. BAD call. All the kids resented the fact that one kid ended up with this huge thing.)

Are $10 Target gift cards too cheap and impersonal?

You can always add some homemade goodies.

But you don't need to! Honestly, I'd be delighted with the equivalent of a $10 Target gift card. It's always lovely to get anything, and when it's something actually nice and/or useful (rather than the gilt-edged ceramic clown picked out by a child, bless) then that's a definite bonus. If you feel like adding home made goodies, that's lovely - but, honestly, don't feel you need to go the domestic goddess route.

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Aaaand because I am still very excited about the lovely gold taffata skirt I found yesterday, but made the mistake of posting about it in the same post as the shministim thing, I am posting it again.

Isn't it pretty? And it was less than half price!