Flu, Awards and Freebie!

I was knocked out with the flu Thursday evening. I hadn't been feeling well Thursday after lunch, but I chalked it up to our Thanksgiving feast at school (so sorry cafeteria ladies!). I was feeling  better by dinner time and went to a farewell dinner for one of our friends who had been in town attending some training for the last couple of weeks. I scarfed down nachos and fajitas like they were going out of style friends :(  Sure enough, I got sick in the middle of the night - and even after throwing up I didn't feel any better....for 2 DAYS. I barely managed to drag my butt out of bed on Friday morning to email my lesson plans to work - oh my poor kids, you know I just loaded that substitute up with worksheets and coloring pages! And I pretty much stayed in bed all day Friday and Saturday in a semi-conscious state.

Side note: My silly husband is so phobic of throwing up that he did not eat anything from the time I threw up on Thursday night until Saturday night - he was convinced he was going to get sick too and he will do anything not to have to throw up. Luckily everyone else in the family seems to have avoided getting sick - I'm crossing my fingers that the kids aren't just incubating this!

Well this morning I got up and I'm feeling much better - and of course the first thing I had to do was check out what had been happening in bloggy land! You can imagine how thrilled I  was to see that, while I lay sick, I was awarded the Sunshine Award by 3 different bloggers! Oh my word! I am just thrilled by the honor! Thank you so much to CacheyMama from Cachey Mama's Classroom,  Ms. Helms of Work Smart Not Hard Teaching Kindergarten and Kerri from Ms. Kerri and Her Krazy Kindergarten!

 Here are the "rules" for this award:

1. Thank the person who gave this award and write a post about it.
2. Answer the following questions below.
3. And pass the award to 10~12 fabulous bloggers, link their blogs and let them know you awarded them. 

My answers to the questions:

• Favorite color? Blue, although you really couldn't tell by looking around my house!
• Favorite animal?  Dogs - specifically rottweilers, I'm still missing my baby that passed at the end of August, and we can't get a new rotti any time soon because they're not allowed in on post housing :(
• Favorite number? 138
• Favorite drink? Pepsi Zero or Shamrock Shakes from McDonalds (so sad they're not available year round!)
• Facebook or Twitter? Not really either any more since I began blogging, but I still check out Facebook once in a while to keep in touch with friends.
• Your passion? Teaching! Preferably kindergarten - can't wait to get "demoted" next year!
• Giving or getting presents? Giving - I love, love, love buying stuff for my kids and husband - as long as it's a surprise - can't stand getting exactly what's on a list because that's no fun!
• Favorite day?  Friday - love having a whole weekend to look forward to!
• Favorite flowers? Oh, please, please let my husband read this post! Sweet man keeps buying me roses, which are pretty but expensive, and I would much rather have carnations, tulips or gladiolas! I've tried telling him that at least a dozen times since we've been married, but he likes to stick with tradition (what a horrible problem to have right?! I really should be slapped for not being more thankful, especially given the season!)

Ok so the fabulous bloggers I am passing this award to are:

Crisscross Applesauce in First Grade

Because I am so tickled by this award, I made a quick freebie as a "Thank you!" to all my followers! I know that lately I have been posting more 1st grade stuff than Kindergarten, so to remedy that here is an uppercase/lowercase alphabet match-up just in time for all the Winter festivities!

Gingerbread Alphabet Match