Appreciate me! Please?

Me, to Jacob: You know, it's Teacher Appreciation Week this week and it's Mother's Day on Sunday, so I expect to feel appreciated all week.

Jacob, stilted: I appreciate you. There.

I guess I'll take what I can get.

Since it IS Teacher Appreciation Week, all the teacher bloggers in all the land are hosting giveaways for products and gift cards to teacherspayteachers.com. I may or may not have entered over 20 contests today in hopes of winning one. Not that I care that much about the cutesy markers and decorations, but the gift cards, man, the gift cards!

I then spent about 2 hours adding products to my wish list. I want to buy all the things! The task cards! The Greek mythology units! The interactive notebook activities! Even if I do win $25 (and with the accompanying 28% off sale), I'd only be able to get a fraction of the things I'd like. Oh, why does everything cost so many dollars?

Speaking of, I went to town this year purchasing products from a particular seller on this website. (We have a certain amount of money we can spend each year and then get reimbursed from the school.) I received a notification a couple weeks ago that she recently became a millionaire through selling her products. When I told Jacob this, he immediately asked if I could do the same thing. Maybe if I ever have time to create products, I'll venture into this as a side business . . .

Side note: When I told Jacob I wanted to buy more things, he asked, "Are you going to make that teacher even more than a millionaire?" Ha.

Mostly, for Teacher Appreciation Week I hope to still have a job next year. My students took their Language Arts and Science end-of-year tests last week and they did . . . much worse than I anticipated. Fingers crossed they redeem themselves in the math test this week or I may just be looking for a new line of employment. Like selling things on Teachers Pay Teachers, perhaps?