SpeechSnacks Two-Year Blogiversary Celebration {A Week of Guest Posts and Giveaways!!}

I can’t believe two years have passed since I started my adventures in blogging!  (Here is my first ever blog post, published on September 2, 2011. )  I say “adventure” because that is truly what blogging has been for me!   Like a good adventure novel that one might read, I have experienced excitement,  surprise, suspense, highs and lows, and met so many “characters” along the way.  Unlike a good adventure novel, my story doesn’t have an ending yet.  That’s because after two years,  I continue to enjoy sharing my thoughts, ideas, recipes and inspirations.

My blog has transformed somewhat over the past two years.  I started out sharing healthy recipe ideas and incorporated ways to address speech and language into the process.  I  geared most of my posts toward families and hoped to inspire them to teach their children to speak and eat well.   As time went on,  I focused my ideas on ways that  therapists could incorporate edible learning into their sessions, although I realize that food allergies and school-related  restrictions could present an issue.  So I decided to start a TeachersPayTeachers store as a supplement to my blog posts in hopes of making my ideas more usable in the school setting.

If you follow my blog, I thank you.  It is because of you that I continue to write.  It is because of my students that I continue to be inspired.  And it is because of my passion for my profession (and food, of course) that I look forward to what I do every day!!   I hope that I have helped make a difference to a child, parent or fellow-educator in some small way because that is what makes it all worthwhile!!

I am sharing a  FREEBIE that I created.  It is a favorite poem of mine. (I have included three different styles). Feel free to download it and display it as an inspirational reminder of why we do what we do in this profession every day!  

 

Now for the GUEST POSTS and GIVEAWAYS!!!!   I have some amazingly generous and talented  “speechie”  friends who will be guest posting each day this week.  Several have also donated their food-themed TpT products to help me celebrate my blogiversary!  There will be FOUR giveaways–so feel free to enter ALL of them.   Each giveaway will be for TWO products.  I will begin posting giveaways tomorrow (9/2/13).  All giveaways ends at midnight on September 8th!