Almost Finished!

From the day of the flood to now

MY family and my daycare family have been nothing but a HUGE blessing!

My husband, my brothers, my dad and my mom have worked so hard at putting the basement together as quickly as possible!

And now with the painting done, (thanks to a daycare Grandma!!)

only a few steps left of the process and we will be back in our daycare!!

Its all soooo exciting!

Here are a few photos of the before and after paint!

before the painting began!

another view of the room!

the stripes on the one long wall!

looking down the stairs!

I am hoping in 2 weeks we will offically be down in our daycare space!!!



The stick just wasn't so sticky!

One of my new year resolutions was to plan my daycare projects in advance!

I have not missed a single day!

Everything has been ready and prepped for when the time came!

well last night I look at my calendar

and do a check in my head to make sure I have all the materials

well nope I do not because of the the flood!

I don't have all my yarn, not much tissue paper, no felt

BUT contact paper YES! 

It was on a top shelf!

So I gather all the supplies that made it and have them ready for today!

a BIG piece of contact paper pom poms, a small amount of tissue paper, buttons, sequence, a few pieces of yarn and string and some other small light weight odds and ends!

the kids go to work!!

hang the contact paper on the wall!

set out supplies and let the kids start the decorating process

hmmm where should I put this?

The finished product!

Also not sure if it was because the contact paper has been sitting in a super moist basement or if it was bad contact paper but the items had a hard time staying stuck!!  I am assuming it was because it sat in the basement but who knows! so all day I have been picking up the pieces that are slowing falling off to the ground!!

here one of the kiddos made a face

you can see the eyes, the button ears, the sequence mouth and the yarn for hair!

Too cute!!!

This was a HUGE hit and the kids were busy with this activity for over 30 minutes!  I love when we can get up and moving with our project time!!

I highly recommend this activity with energetic kids! Because there was lots of walking to be done if you stick the supplies on one side of the room and the contact paper on the other! 

I leave you with this picture

I was finsihing lunch clean up and walked into our "new" daycare space and found this little dude sitting at the table reading a book (upside down) just smiling away like he was the biggest kid at daycare today!  It just struck me as super funny and I had to get a picture of it! 

Happy Monday!!

Here are a few more pics of my daycare space as of today

this is a pic of the back bedroom

and this is a pic of the main daycare area that I use!

The carpet is offically dry and waiting a little longer on the wood!

so we are almost ready to start repairing everything!

Sparkle and Shine!

Since my basement is FAR from being sparkling and shining

This was at 630 am on Thursday January 26th

This was at 12pm today January 27th

Slowly but surly the progress is being made!

We are trying to stay positive!!

Anyways like I said before

Since my basement is far from being sparkly and shinny 

we had to do a craft to brighten up my mood

(the kids are THRILLED to be having daycare on my main level!)

So I stole asked my husband for some of his cds that he wasn't using

and we decorated them with gems, and sequence!

look at those big ol brown eyes!  How do you not love her!!

even through the sass, I love her!

working hard!!

Here are a few of the finished products!

the plan will be to string them up somewhere!  

we just haven't decided where yet!

Simple, easy, fun and sparkly!!  

and who does love a little sparkle in their life!

Happy Weekend to everyone!

I will hopefully be taking daily pics so that I can remember all work we went through and hopefully in the very near future my daycare will look AMAZING!!!

linking up with a sparkling and shinning link over at The Sunday Showcase

be sure to check out the link which is FULL of great ideas!!!

AWESOME!!

Today I woke up like any other day

Went to brush my teeth

No Water?!?

Strange...

Wake Husband up to tell him

We have NO water

He slowly gets up to check it out!

I head down stairs to turn lights on and un lock door

for daycare kids!

I hear a noise

I open door thinking the noise is coming from outside!

Its not coming from outside

Its coming from inside!

Open door to the basement

(where I do daycare)

WATER, WATER, WATER, WATER,

EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

daycare closed!

Try to figure out how to save everything!

HUGE MESS!!

Its coming along and daycare will have to be held in my main floor for a few weeks

hopefully I will be up and blogging more childcare things soon!!