Two years ago...

...ish...we were celebrating our first Thanksgiving without my dad. It was a rather subdued Thanksgiving. Still, though, we found plenty to be thankful for. Today, over on the Prism blog, you can see the layout I finally finished about it.  

So. How was your Thanksgiving this year? Ours was quiet but lovely. Just us, my brother and my niece. The boys had a blast playing with their cousin and battling their uncle on the Wii. We managed to have a dandy little feast (thank you, Super Target, for your lovely pre-made holiday meals that only required me to heat things up...about the extent of my cooking abilities, LOL). We have plenty of leftovers (didn't even make it to the pie yesterday!). And, in a bit, we're headed out to do a wee bit of shopping. :) Yup, life is good.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Don't have a cool blog entry or anything today...just wanted to wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving! Hope you have a fabulous day!

Off now, to finish straightening up my office here enough that I can walk in it...also waiting for a load of laundry. Ah, the exciting life I lead, LOL! 

Oh, wait! I do have a layout that I've not shared that is actually very appropriate today. Here it is: 

I wanted to document this prayer that I remember from my childhood. It was on a poster that hung above my bed. I still find myself saying it from time to time. :)

Sigh. So much more that could be said. I'm so blessed and have so much to be thankful for. Right at the moment, though, I'm also exhausted, LOL...so I'll have to catch you this weekend. ;)

Just quick...

...um, addressing holiday cards (determined to actually get them out in time this year, lol) and am wondering whether the addresses I have are up to date. So, if you've received a card from me in the past but have moved in the past year, could you pretty please shoot me an email with your new address? Thanks heaps!

(Incidentally, I find this task annoying. ;) Not the addressing holiday cards part...the always having to verify addresses. I'm in favor of a system where mail is simply delivered based on your social security number or something similar...where I get to always use the same address for a person and it's just that person's responsibility to keep his/her address up to date with the powers that be. So there.)

Two layouts...

As I mentioned yesterday, a new challenge is up over on the Good Grief Blog. Even if you don't have a lost loved one to scrapbook about, this particular challenge (I think) is a good one. (And, incidentally, nowhere in the "rules" over there does it require that you scrapbook about people who are gone...I actually find myself, as I do these challenges, realizing that I really should be doing some of them about people in my life right now as well.)

Anyhoo...my layouts are the "featured" ones today. Here's what I had to say:

My dad loved food...loved it. It honestly didn't matter what it was, he just loved to eat it. :) This challenge, then, came fairly easily. In my head, I'd already been making a list of the foods that especially make me think of him...foods that bring up images of him whenever I see them or my boys ask for them.

Even though this layout doesn't particularly tell a story, I love that I have this list all in one place...just like I'm thrilled when seeing or eating one of these foods leads to discussions with my boys about what else their Papa loved. ;)

After I'd finished the layout above, though, I still had food on the brain. As so often happens, I started thinking about things I want to make sure my boys know about their Papa. Thus, this layout:

 
Yup, just silly little bits that I wanted to share. I'm actually thinking now that I want to do a little album just about foods I associate with specific people (both living and not)...could be a fun Thanksgiving afternoon project, don't you think? ;)

New challenge up!

Yup, another challenge is up over at the Good Grief Blog...check it out! :)