Setting some goals...

Here are a couple pics of the altered board book I made. I'm very glad that it is done! lol I don't think I'll be volunteering to do that again anytime soon! lol

Now I'm trying to finish the LO I'm making using my last post as journaling. Hopefully I'll have it finished today. So here's the big news...I've decided that the time has come to quit smoking. My quit date is June 24/07. I am telling as many people as I can...the more people that know the less chance I have of not succeeding. And I will be getting a whole new look this summer.

Shoes...

This was the scene inside my mom's front door today. Shoes, shoes & more shoes. Dan & Shi were there with their 7 kids, and Sonda & Randy were there with their 6 kids, and then Mercedes & I were there...alot of people, alot of noise, alot of shoes!

I first noticed the shoes as I was running out the door to get something from my house. I noticed them enough that this was the first picture I took when I got back to my mom's house. As I was taking the picture I thought how this pile of shoes was so indicative of our family right now. A little jumbled up, a little messy, a little all over, but alot all together!

Wasn't it just the other day that the front entry was filled with car seats & diaper bags? When did all these kids go from toddlers to teenagers? When did we stop changing diapers & start helping with hair & makeup? How is it that my nieces are more interested in the cute boys rather than the playground? Instead of checking on the kids playing outside we are checking out the boys that have come to pick up these girls...these girls that were babies just yesterday.

We have no more babies now. No diapers, no bottles, no sleepers. Our youngest kids will be starting kindergarten within the next year or two & the oldest will be graduating high school in a year or two. I'm amazed at how fast the time has gone and I stop for a moment to just look around and try to remember exactly how we look right now. This is our family. These are our shoes.

A good day...

I got an email today from Canadian Scrapbooker magazine requesting a LO for the Fall issue! Woohoo!! I had made the layout for Sonda...it's pictures from Sawyer's first day of School...so I had to go borrow it to send off for photographs. She didn't want to give it to me, since the first time I was published the magazine lost the layout...I'm still dealing with that one! I finally convinced Sonda that the LO will be safe...worst case scenerio I can make her another one! I also finally finished the altered board book I've been working on. I am so glad to have that off my desk!! I need to do something for myself now...I have a few pictures printed, but nothing that is really screaming "scrap me"...and my ink is just about out so I'm trying to be really stingy...so I'll either have to work with the pics I have or try to get a challenge accomplished from http://www.scrapcentral.ca.

Today Mercedes made me just laugh (again)...she was over at my mom's house and I called her to tell her I was running to the grocery store. She asked me to get her a surprise. I said "no". She said "please". I said, sarcastically, "ok, I'll get you some broccoli"...she said "YAY!!! Thanks Mom!" I don't know of many kids that get excited about broccoli!! lol Then later she had a friend over to play and she asked me if she could have some broccoli...I said yes. So in a very excited voice she asked her friend "hey, Jewell...want some broccoli?" Jewell looked at Mercedes like she had lost her mind and shook her head vehemently. Mercedes just shrugged her shoulders and said "ok, but I'm having some!!" And she then proceeded to have 2 big helpings of steamed broccoli. I just had to laugh though cause I have never seen a child so excited by a vegetable! lol

May long weekend...

Well here we are...middle of May already...boy, does time fly! I haven't been doing much lately as I've been struggling with one health issue after another! The latest thing is an abcessed tooth that made the whole right side of my face swell. I went to the dr. and got some antibiotics and I have an appointment with the dentist on Wednesday. I'm trying to decide if the time has come to just have all my teeth pulled. Logically, I don't think it's that hard of a decision, but the idea of not having any of my own teeth before I turn 40 is just freaking me out!! Plus this is a major decision...can't change my mind after it's done...guess I'll wait and see what the dentist recommends.

I haven't been able to do much scrappin lately, although I did make a couple cards for Dan & Burns 40th birthday and I've been working on an altered board book for a girl that is getting married next week. I'm really looking forward to finishing it so that I can maybe work on something for myself soon!! Seems like everything I've done lately is for other people, so I'm anxious to get a couple Lo's done for my own scrapbook. Here's hoping I get the book finished today. I'll post pics as soon as it's done. :)