Friday, August 6, 2010
An Uninterrupted Conversation
I find myself craving an uninterrupted conversation. I've discovered that when you are a mom that you never get to a have a full, uninterrupted conversation and I've been craving that. It doesn't matter if I'm talking to my husband or a girlfriend, our conversation is inevitably interrupted. Obviously when I'm with my husband, our son is the culprit. When I'm with my girlfriends it can be any number of culprits-my kid, their kids, or other random kids. When I leave a playdate that's as much for the moms as it is for the kids I'll remember when I get home several conversations that were started and never finished. I find myself getting more and more annoyed by these interruptions. Yes, I realize your child is bleeding profusely, but can we please finish our conversation. Maybe it's time for a Moms night out!
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
A layout and some blathering
I haven't done a very good job of posting this summer, but it seems that the only people that even look at this blog sometimes are those that write comments in Chinese. I'm not sure what the point of their comments are, but I find them rather annoying.
We've been staying really busy this summer. I had enrolled Caleb in a 2 day a week preschool program but it didn't work out so I haven't had much time to scrapbook or blog. I took him to a friends house today and instead of coming home and cleaning like I normally do, I took the time to make a layout about our July 4th. I'm still trying to figure out how I want to scrapbook and how I want to document and print the pictures that don't make my scrapbook pages. I'm not ok with my pictures just living on my hard drive. I want them to be assessible to us to look at and enjoy. I had thought about doing shutterfly books with all of my pictures and my scrapbook pages. However, when I thought about going back and doing that for all of my photos I think it would be insanely time consuming, especially trying to get it all in order for the book to be printed. Instead I think that I'm going to use the 12x12 albums with page protectors. I will print my scrapbook pages and then do very simple digital pages for the rest of the pictures. I have some easy peasy templates that I can use for the majority of the pictures. That way everything will be in one book and if I do decide to do a paper layout every once in a while that can go in the mix too. The beauty of this system is that I can print and put them in protectors and then rearrange as needed whereas a shutterfly book would have to be in order from the beginning. I've kind of been in a non creative state lately because I haven't been able to figure out how I wanted to do all of this. Now that I've finally got that straight in my head I'm hoping i can get going and make some progress. I know that sounds silly, but sometimes I really have to ponder things before I can figure out how to proceed. Without further ado here is the layout I made today:
The journaling reads:
I always loved the 4th of July as a kid. Chris, my neighbor across the street, and I would ride our bikes to the fireworks stand several times a week before the 4th to stock up on fireworks. I don’t know why we didn’t get all of our stuff in one shot, but I guess part of the fun was going, looking at all the fireworks displayed and figuring out what we would buy that day. I’m sure the people that worked the stand loved us! Then we normally didn’t shoot them all off on the 4th. I know I for one would sort of stockpile them, and dig them out of the closet to just look at them every once in a while. Then normally at the end of the summer, we would have a big firework show on the empty lot next to our house. Chris and I would take turns lighting the fireworks and digging through our stash to figure out what we’d light next. The adults would hang out in their chairs and visit and watch our show. We had lots of fun on that empty lot and every 4th of July I remember the good ole days when riding my bike to the fireworks stand was the highlight of my day.
I still get a kick out of going to the fireworks store. We have huge firework warehouses near us so it’s a little different than the mom and pop stands I frequented in my youth. This year when we set out to do our fireworks shopping I brought along the camera to document my love for fireworks and my love of seeing all those brightly colored packages just lined up and waiting to be lit. I think the employees thought I was nuts when I broke the camera out, but they just don’t understand scrapbooking and the need to have some pictures to go with the story. We picked out our goodies and Caleb got his chance to play with fireworks. So far his favorites seem to be the sparklers. I think he also appreciates the bright colors and the packages themselves. On the 4th I decided to take all the fireworks out of their packaging to make it easier to light that night. I also sorted them by category just because it made me happy (weird, I know). Caleb got a package he called his “bucket fireworks” (I’m guessing because they looked like buckets) and played with them all afternoon like army men or something. I think he may just end up being a firebug like his Mom.
We've been staying really busy this summer. I had enrolled Caleb in a 2 day a week preschool program but it didn't work out so I haven't had much time to scrapbook or blog. I took him to a friends house today and instead of coming home and cleaning like I normally do, I took the time to make a layout about our July 4th. I'm still trying to figure out how I want to scrapbook and how I want to document and print the pictures that don't make my scrapbook pages. I'm not ok with my pictures just living on my hard drive. I want them to be assessible to us to look at and enjoy. I had thought about doing shutterfly books with all of my pictures and my scrapbook pages. However, when I thought about going back and doing that for all of my photos I think it would be insanely time consuming, especially trying to get it all in order for the book to be printed. Instead I think that I'm going to use the 12x12 albums with page protectors. I will print my scrapbook pages and then do very simple digital pages for the rest of the pictures. I have some easy peasy templates that I can use for the majority of the pictures. That way everything will be in one book and if I do decide to do a paper layout every once in a while that can go in the mix too. The beauty of this system is that I can print and put them in protectors and then rearrange as needed whereas a shutterfly book would have to be in order from the beginning. I've kind of been in a non creative state lately because I haven't been able to figure out how I wanted to do all of this. Now that I've finally got that straight in my head I'm hoping i can get going and make some progress. I know that sounds silly, but sometimes I really have to ponder things before I can figure out how to proceed. Without further ado here is the layout I made today:
The journaling reads:
I always loved the 4th of July as a kid. Chris, my neighbor across the street, and I would ride our bikes to the fireworks stand several times a week before the 4th to stock up on fireworks. I don’t know why we didn’t get all of our stuff in one shot, but I guess part of the fun was going, looking at all the fireworks displayed and figuring out what we would buy that day. I’m sure the people that worked the stand loved us! Then we normally didn’t shoot them all off on the 4th. I know I for one would sort of stockpile them, and dig them out of the closet to just look at them every once in a while. Then normally at the end of the summer, we would have a big firework show on the empty lot next to our house. Chris and I would take turns lighting the fireworks and digging through our stash to figure out what we’d light next. The adults would hang out in their chairs and visit and watch our show. We had lots of fun on that empty lot and every 4th of July I remember the good ole days when riding my bike to the fireworks stand was the highlight of my day.
I still get a kick out of going to the fireworks store. We have huge firework warehouses near us so it’s a little different than the mom and pop stands I frequented in my youth. This year when we set out to do our fireworks shopping I brought along the camera to document my love for fireworks and my love of seeing all those brightly colored packages just lined up and waiting to be lit. I think the employees thought I was nuts when I broke the camera out, but they just don’t understand scrapbooking and the need to have some pictures to go with the story. We picked out our goodies and Caleb got his chance to play with fireworks. So far his favorites seem to be the sparklers. I think he also appreciates the bright colors and the packages themselves. On the 4th I decided to take all the fireworks out of their packaging to make it easier to light that night. I also sorted them by category just because it made me happy (weird, I know). Caleb got a package he called his “bucket fireworks” (I’m guessing because they looked like buckets) and played with them all afternoon like army men or something. I think he may just end up being a firebug like his Mom.
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