Apps I Cannot Live Without

I use my iPad as my laptop.  It is extremely convenient, user friendly, and has internet everywhere.  It makes my life so much easier as I travel from location to location for work.  I can complete my documentation anywhere.  I sure used it on the long car trips this holiday season!

I love the app store.  I love it almost as much as I like Pinterest!  Here are my top apps for 2012. Enjoy :)

Professional
Numbers (Like Excel for Mac)
Decibel 10th (Reads decibles.  So I can reward my group if they keep the noise "below the red")
30/30 (Time tracker... can set alarms at different intervals for different activites.  Perfect for groups, classrooms, or cleaning the house)
Haiku Deck (Free slide creator for presentations.  Beautiful and easy)
Evernote (Allows your to add photos, voiceover, and text to notes as well as store them in journals)
Skitch (Allows you to add arrows, text, and draw on pictures.  Syncs with Evernote)
Docusign (Attach your actual signiture to any document)
You Tube

Personal
Holy Bible
iHeart Radio
iBooks
Kindle
UnStuck (Enter some information about a problem you are facing and it will help you to become "UnStuck"
Treat Cards (Create and mail actual custom cards with from your device.  Birthday reminders)
Find iPhone
Score Center
Facebook
Pinterest
eBay
Zillow (Real estate tracker)
Big Oven (Enter the ingredients in your pantry and it will give you recipes with those items)

Calming
Art Circles (Browse art by collection.  Fun interface)
Fluidity (Relaxing lava lamp like background)
Fluid (Water movement background)

Games
The Room (1 person puzzle game)
Blokus HD (2-4 person puzzle game)
Stack the States (State trivia)
Wheel HD (Wheel of Fortune)
Trivial Persuit
Pictureka
Train Conduct (1 person very fun and complicated, time-sensitive, train conductor game)
Train Conduct 2, USA (Version 2)
Towers hd (1 person puzzle game)
Magic Piano (Become a concert pianist by the time it takes to download this app)

Art
Paper

For my 2 year old
LunchBox (Puzzles, colors, big/small)
Playtales (Interactive books)
eflash English (#1 app for growing vocabulary.  We started this at 12 months)
eflash Spanish Cards (Same for spanish vocab)
eflash2 Spanish (Dito)
Mickey Mouse Road Ralley (Not really educational.  My son just loves Mickey)
Potty Time (Very fun and efficient potty training app.  Reward system.  Can call "Rachel" when he goes in the potty.  Also potty songs and books)
Letter School (Practice learning letters, sounds, and what words start with what letters)

I know this post is a little off the beaten path for me, but it is inspired by two of my friends that received an iPad for Christmas.  They wanted a list of my favorite apps, so here ya go girls!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Y'all!

"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."
Isaiah 9:6

"When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy."
Matthew 2:10

Travel Play Therapy and Sand Tray Bag

I travel from school to school with a rolling tote bag.  It contains all of my materials for play therapy and sand tray therapy.  I am lucky that all of my schools allow me to keep my actual sand tray in my room so I only have to transport the miniatures and accessories.  I used one of the 40% off coupons online to purchase this bag from Hobby Lobby.  The bag was made for scrap booking, but it meets my needs for play therapy perfectly.  Plus, it is cute!

My travel tote bag includes the following items (and yes... they all fit!)...

Dress up that boys and girls are interested in
Sand tray miniatures and accessories
Puppets
Sensory and calming objects
Kanoodle, my all time favorite puzzle game)
Slinky
2 PlayStation Controllers
Tennis Balls
Stress Balls
Cell Phone
Playing Cards
Sheet
Masking Tape
Art Supplies
Construction Paper
Pipe Cleaners
Flash Light
Band-Aids
Genotoons
Baby, Bottle, and Swaddle
Super Soft Teddy
2 Swords and Shields
Magic Princess Wand
Wizard Wand
Stickers
Realistic Medical Kit
Play-Doh
Bendable Family (Multicultural)
Trucks/Cars/Planes
Army Men
Toothbrush

Even though I travel, I try and set up the items with as much consistency and organization as possible.

Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy. Psalm 33, 3