Monday, November 17, 2008 at 06:57AM Happy Monday morning! Had a fabulous and productive weekend...need to finish off a couple things and photograph a couple others and then will be back with a jam packed post...hopefully today, possibly tomorrow. You'll want to see it. Honest. :)
Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 06:22PM Time for another "totally random things I keep meaning to mention" post... ;)
1. Still having a grand time over on the CK site at my Month by Month Scrapbooking group! Daily giveaways, challenges and sneak peeks! Still time to join the fun...plus, I'll have another little announcement there on Monday, so don't miss it!
2. While I really wanted to do all of the daily challenges that I set out, life and time are intervening. But. I have managed to finish these two:
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(Made it a thumbnail so that hopefully when you click on it you'll be able to actually see the journaling.) This first one was for Monday's challenge...scrapping a childhood memory that goes along with a specific month. Here, I journaled about how my boys' "city" fall leaves experiences differ so much from my own growing up in the country.
Cardstock: Prism Papers; Sheer leaves: Maya Road (off of one of their 12x12 sheets); Fonts: Impact, Century Gothic.
This second one is for today's challenge to do a layout about service. The boys and I did this giving tree project last year and I wanted to record the experience.
Cardstock: Prism Papers; Pen: American Crafts Precision Pen; Pencils: Koh-i-Noor Gioconda soft pastel pencils; Font: Rockwell.
3. Turns out we live in the best place to raise kids in Colorado...according to Business Week (scroll down to Colorado). Pretty cool. :)
4. I'm behind on Jessica Sprague's Stories in Hand class...haven't been able to play along at all yet. :( But I'm so excited for when I get a chance to catch up!! Have you been participating? How's it going?
5. Micah has been so talkative lately (which is truly saying something, as the kid talks up a storm anyhow). One of my very favorite things, though, is how he refers to others...he says "who-body"...as in "who-body there?" (in response to "knock, knock") and "who-body did that?" Silly kid. He also has taken to saying "avoid" instead of, well, other things you might say...like "don't hit that tree!" except he says "do avoid that tree!" And he's very fond of "not exactly" and "actually" right now, too. I wish they'd all stop growing up.
Oh! And he's decided "Mikey" is an unacceptable nickname. Constantly hearing "Don't call me Mikey!" around here, as I can't seem to break myself of the habit. I call Asher "Ashey" pretty often, too, and Micah's even taken to correcting me there..."don't call my brother Ashey!" (Asher, fortunately, doesn't mind if I call him Ashey.) Love how he always sticks up for his brothers, too..."don't talk like that to my brother!" is a daily thing around here (said to Noah about Asher or vice versa, often back to back).
6. Asher was the Star of the Week this Monday at his Options class. It was basically an individualized show and tell. He was so excited to bring some of his favorite toys, his little picture album of our family vacation last summer, and a drawing of a dragster he'd designed. Micah and I stayed to watch his "presentation"...so happy!
7. I'm going to an all day crop this Saturday and am so excited! Hoping to get a bunch of little holiday projects knocked off my list! Speaking of which, did you know that there are only 42 more shopping days till Christmas? Oy.
8. I just finalized travel plans for CHA Winter (this coming January)! I'm even more stoked about that than the crop Saturday, lol! This will be the first CHA I've been able to attend (it's a craft and hobby show for those unfamiliar with what I'm talking about). I'll be at the CK booth and hope to also walk the floor and visit with folks. Yay!
Okay, that's probably enough randomness for the moment. I'm sure there were other things I've been meaning to post but they've slipped my mind again. ;)
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 08:32PM Well, I think it's official. The boys found the Christmas CDs today and spent much of the day playing them at top volume and "dancing" (aka running crazily around the house in close proximity to each other whilst I try not to keep saying, "be careful!"). They also started picking which Christmas songs they'll play on the piano for their winter recital. Noah's already gone through his entire Christmas music for the piano book trying to make up his mind.
Not that we haven't had plenty of holiday prep stuff around here already. But the music really does it, I think. ;) So. Since I'd really rather not go insane this winter, any good recommendations on kid-friendly Christmas music? (We have a bunch but variety is always better, right?)
Monday, November 10, 2008 at 02:18AM Yes, it's just really late Sunday night right now, but my morning's going to be busy and I'll be in and out all day. So. I figured I'd post now. :)
As mentioned, today is Monday. It's also the start of the online promotion hoopla for my book over at Creating Keepsakes! If you haven't already joined my group over there, get on that! You won't want to miss out on the sneak peeks, giveaways and challenges!!
Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 11:47PM Just a quick entry to say that Noah had his "friends" birthday party today. :) We held it over at our gym, as they had a nice package where they'll run games in the gym with the kids for an hour and then we have the conference room for cake, ice cream and presents. The kids had a blast playing all sorts of tag and soccer games in the gym (and I was happy that that particular part turned out as well as it did given the range of kids we had, lol).
When we got to the cake and ice cream part, though, we came upon something we'd never expected. The kids (all 7 or 8 years old, mind you) got into a political debate. It started with me asking the kids if they wanted their ice cream at the same time as their cake or after. They started "voting." Someone said, "I vote for Obama." And it just took off from there. One boy even knew the electoral college vote. Really. A couple different times, we actually had to step in and ask them to change the subject as things were getting a bit heated between a couple of the boys who very strongly believed what they believed. :)
Don't get me wrong, I think it's awesome that they all know what's going on in the world and have an opinion. It even turned into a learning opportunity about respecting other people's opinions. :) I'm told the boy who knew the electoral college vote has actually been tardy to class a few times in the past few weeks for debating politics in the hallways. Wow.
Politics aside, it really was a fun party. :)
