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hey everyone it's devon from
mamacheaps.com and

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i'm sitting here in a quiet quiet car
line

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uh just enjoying a few moments before
the kids

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come out it's warm here today so i've
got my starbucks iced

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coffee and i just wanted to share with
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very quickly a tradition that i started
a few years ago and i am

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so so happy that i did it's one of my
favorite

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favorite end of the year traditions and
my kids have no idea about it

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yet so about six years ago at the end of
lilly's

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very first year of preschool i picked up
a copy of all the places you'll go

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by dr seuss you're probably familiar
with this

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book but if you're not it's just a
really sweet

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tale of hard work and motivation and the
world is yours and

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go get them and you know all that stuff
and

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overcoming um just overcoming obstacles
and

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and how you know the world is really
yours if you go out and work hard and

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try your best and
um all that stuff so it's the perfect

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book for the end of the school year
also for graduation time so here's what

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i do
every single year at the end of the

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school year please
do not wait until like the last day of

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school
do not do this the teachers will not be

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happy with you if you do that don't do
that

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a couple months before school is over or
even a few weeks before the end of

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school when things aren't quite as crazy
smuggle a copy of this book to your

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child's teacher
and ask them if they will just write a

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short line or two and sign the book
just a short line no novel

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no just a just a little quick anecdote
really

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short little message anywhere they want
in the book

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okay put the book away till the next
year

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do the same thing it's easier you know
when the kids are little and they really

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only have one main teacher maybe a
teacher's aide

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um you know you could have them sign as
they get older and it gets a little

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trickier in middle school and in high
school when they have multiple teachers

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just pick and choose pick you know your
kids favorite teachers or most

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influential teachers
um favorite coaches favorite club

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leaders whatever
pick their favorites and have them be

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the ones to leave a little note in here
and um i started doing this when lily

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her first year in preschool
this year i will be picking up landon's

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copy of the book
so that his teachers can sign it as he

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ends his first year
of preschool and if you just take a

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quick peek
inside lily's book you can see that

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already
you know she's getting some little

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messages from
various teachers that she's had over the

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years
in kindergarten and um you know the

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teachers can sign it anywhere inside and
guess what

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this book will be wrapped up and i will
give it to her

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on her high school graduation day oh and
i cried just thinking about it because

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it seems like it's so far off in the
future but it's gonna it's already going

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so fast i know it's gonna be here in the
blink of an eye

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but on her high school graduation day i
can give her this book

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and if she opens it up there will be
messages from

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all of her teachers and coaches over the
years

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um things that they remember her doing
in their class or you know just

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just little anecdotes or well wishes for
her future

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that's really cool right that is so cool
that's something that i really wish that

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you know i had something like that from
my own childhood

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so just a little idea of an end of the
year tradition that if you haven't

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started you might want
to and i'm going to put a link up in the

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status of this video to my blog post
feel free to check that out save it to

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your facebook wall save this video to
your facebook wall

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if you click share at the bottom of this
video it'll save it right to your wall

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so that that can be your reminder
to um either to go out and buy your copy

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or if actually if you share it if you
check your

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facebook memories every day it'll pop up
on today's date

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um every year from now on so that could
remember remind you to go dig the book

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out of your hiding spot and
you know start thinking about getting it

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to the teacher that year to sign
and i'll also leave a link to purchase

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the book on amazon that's where i got
this copy

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it's usually on there for oh a few bucks
like less than ten dollars usually maybe

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a little
more than that um right around that ten

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dollar mark you can pick up a copy so
just a sweet little tradition that if

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you
um you know if you want to start it now

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the earlier the earlier you started the
better but i'm so glad i did because now

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i mean i have so much fun going back and
reading the little notes that her

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teachers have left for her so i can only
imagine how much she's going to love

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seeing it um 10 years from now
and uh checking out everything that

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people have said
when i gift it to her so as always

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thanks for watching if you already do
this tradition

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definitely drop me a comment let me know
like if you do anything different the

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way that i do it or the same
i would love to hear from you so thanks

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for watching guys
until next time