My house

Merry Christmas! Here are a few shots from around my house. I just love decorating for Christmas. We have a Family Christmas tonight with my Dad's side of the family. Missing a few gifts for them, darn post office. Can't they work on Sundays?!! LOL Oh well, that is not the reason getting together. It'a about family time, bonding, eating, laughing, watching the children play, and of course, FOOTBALL!

It's 1:30 pm and I am still in my pajamas! Ahhh.....holidays! Need to go get ready for the Christmas Dinner. Haven't ate yet today to save myself for tonight! And make up a flyer to wrap telling people about their incredible gift that is MIA.

Three down...

SEVEN MORE TO GO on my first MM party orders. I got one bag today. I was told that 5 shipped. Hmm...1, 5 what's the difference?! It's gotten to the point now that it is more comical than anything. I have moved on from p.o'd to not giving fly fluck. At this point, as long as they come, I will be happy. I am beyond embarrassed and I just pray that my customers don't hold it against me and will continue to shop for handbags with me and Elisa Lou Designs.

I am going to hold a Grand Opening Show in January sometime. Hope they give me another chance.

Well...how long before the other 19 bags come? YES 19. That is what I am waiting on.

Craziness

I can't believe how nuts my day has been. I went with my mom to go get a new JackRussel puppy for my stepdad this morning. She is so cute! Then I had to come home to find out the bottom was falling out with MM. I dealt with that for few hours and then had to go to the school to decorate my sons classroom as a surprise for the kids in the morning. Then tried to order chinese food with our local joint. TRIED being the word...Took them 3 minutes to figure out that I just wanted my Sweet & Sour Sauce on the side vs. over the chicken. Then I have to hunt down old Credit Card statements to have as a back up incase my MM bags are not delivered. Then I had to deal with customers calling and wanting to know where their bags are...NOT HERE was my answer and I start bawling. I feel terrible. But it's beyond my control at this point. I had one ask for a refund. I had an ebay christmas gift that I thought was not mailed to me. The tracking was in my spam folder. Problem solved there. Found out my bags were shipped from eLisaLou. (GOOD NEWS) THEN....I get a call from my sister just sobbing...she tells me my grandma's convertable that she was borrowing was stolen. WHAT!!! I was in shock. She had been home all day and never left so she wasn't aware it was missing. Well....long story short....The car was NOT stolen. Her apartment complex had it towed because she had it parked in her spot in the carport but that car was not registered as the proper car. WHAT A MESS. Then the towing company tells her that only the owner can remove the car from impound. SHE IN FLORIDA! So luckily my mom is POA for her and we believe my mom can help her get the car. So....that is how my day went. Craziness. I live for days like this! NOT!

Beautiful Funeral Home

I have never seen a more beautiful funeral home in all my life. Or maybe I am just not in one enough...thank goodness, but this was done so pretty for Christmas. I think were about 20 some trees decorated up in this place. And just unbelieveable decorations. The trees looked like could have been in a museum. I have never seen such precision. The one is the picture here was just HUGE and it had fake snow sprinkled all over it. The decorations were just balls but boy was it pretty. The first is my family, the next on is Josh's Aunt & Uncle from Concord, NC. The third is his Aunt & Uncle from Winston-Salem, NC. We don't get to see them very often and it was such a joy to get to have them here around the holidays! But not for this reason. Off to the funeral...

Holy Crowds...

Well, we had to return one thing already. Holy Crowds...I don't usually have to go out this time of year. WOW! That is why I shop early! I almost think it was worse than black friday. I just sat in the car while Josh ran in to return it. It was something from Best Buy...not my store of choice to go into. Give me a craft or fabric store anyday!

I got a Christmas card from California today! THANKS SHELL! I am bad...I sent them to our immediate family only this year.
Oh...AND....drum roll please.....



I got a Maddy Moo bag that was ordered on SEPTEMBER 27. A week shy of 3 months! NOT BAD....{rolling eyes, followed by a severe twitch} It's that same twitch that Scrap In A Snap gave me...odd....I thought I got rid of that problem.

Just sitting back waiting for all my online orders to start rolling in. The paper is ready to begin wrapping. Poor boys...they wonder why they have no gifts under the tree yet. It's because Mommy did a bunch of online order and I am still waiting for them to arrive! What a great way to shop. I just might continue this online shopping thing. I thought I might miss the actual hands on shopping experience. But after today, NOPE! Black Friday is my one an only time to brave the crowds.

Off to plan out our evening. We have family arriving from out of state today. Funeral Monday. Thanks for the well wishes at this difficult time too! It means a lot to know I have such great friends!

Huh??

Why is that just when you think you life is moving along smoothly and things are all kosher...bam....you are hit head on. This has a lot to do with side businesses. TLC just recently announces that they are going to start remitting sales tax for the consultant. My intial response was, Cool. No more dealing with that crap. But....now that I have sat and thought about what it means...It sucks. For me, who does major expos outside of my home state, it means that I will be paying twice for taxes. HUH???

I am just about ready to close this chapter in my life. I don't see how it will benefit those of us who are out trying to market TLC and working the business. I guess I will just have to do home state expos, ect. Which isn't good. Bev and I have created a great system on our expos and this really puts a wrench in the plans.

Still no voice...the boys are in heaven! LOL

No voice...

I have no voice and a very sore throat. UGH.
Must have been all the cheering for Erik on BL last night! LOL WOW! He looked incredible!

I ordered my business cards last night for Elisa Lou. Boy it's hard to decide on what looks good. I had it done several ways with many different combos. I finally just said forget and ordered them. Not good to do when you are high on cold medicine! LOL Hopefully no typos!

I have a funeral to attend Monday. Josh's Grandpa on his mom's side past away yesterday. So I will have a house full this weekend I have a feeling. We have family coming home from Florida, North Carolina, Indiana, and Muskegan, MI area. It will be great to see them but not under these circumstances.

I have a photo shoot on Sunday to do, gifts to finish making, gifts to wrap, gifts to buy, and dinners to plan. I am reminded daily about how many days until Christmas. This weather is screwing me up. It should NOT be near 55 degrees in Michigan in the middle of December. I can't get thru my head that it is crunch time. Just doesn't feel like it should be that time.

Still waiting on Maddy Moo bags from OCTOBER. I will be so glad to put that part of my life behind me.

Need to figure out how I am going to work Sales Tax with TLC now too. Out of state expos just seem too appealing to me anymore. paying double taxes. NO THANKS. There has to be a way around it...need to contact the account.

Stress...me? never...

Biggest Loser?

Oh man! Can you believe Erik!!! WOW! I am motivated now. I hope he takes it all!

Time will tell....

My night

Went to the Ann Arbor Comedy Club tonight with my Boss and co-workers. The head liner was Roblittle.com He was funny. Got a little 'dirty' at times but we are all adults. We can handle it! It was just a little uncomfortable hearing some of this in front of my male boss. I am very reserve in nature and for some of this to be said out loud in front of me was not in my character! But it sure didn't stop me from laughing at him!

We ate dinner at Champion House. It was ok. Wouldn't pick it again but would eat there again. One of those types of things. I had chicken...no surprise there! LOL I HATE SEAFOOD AND STEAK!! Maybe I should just be come a non meat eater. I don't really enjoy all veggies...so not sure what you would call me.

Off to sleep...

Charms-a-plenty Rep

http://www.charms-a-plenty.com/store/aGo.asp?aff=1064

Found these really cute charms and thought...why not. So I joined! BIG SURPRISE THERE! or not!

So if any of you ever need any charms for your projects...think of me!

Gift for Cousin

I have done a bunch of online shopping this year for the holidays. I got an order in yesterday! I made this for my cousin. I am going to put it in a 12x12 frame for her. I took these pictures of her children last weekend. It came from www.scrapbookpictures.com

The quality is great. The only thing I don't like is how I screwed up a coupole photos. I didn't realize that I used the same picture twice and then I distorted one when creating. It didn't look bad on the screen but in the print it is really noticable. So that is my fault not the companies.

This was done in PS CS2. It was from a template from Jen Caputo that I downloaded many months back. It was a freebie that I found one day while surfing. I never knew how to use it until I took my CS2 class this fall! That was the best $120 I ever spent. Well...hmm....I have spent that much on Elisa Lou bags and those still bring me enjoyment...so it's one of the best purchases I have made! LOL I hope she likes it. I sorta wish I wouldn't have put Merry Christmas on it but...It's Christmas TIME! She can just put it in an album when she is done displaying it for the holiday season.

I have a few more projects to complete now. We have a light dusting of snow this morning and the sun out right now! BEAUTIFUL! How I love the SNOW!

Uglydolls.com

Oh my! This are the best! I love unique items like this! Josh is on the other computer right now ordering for our youngest. He saw them while I was peeking at the website and starts, "oh Mommy, I want that pink one!"
www.uglydolls.com

Yes, Pink! My youngest son's favorite color is PINK! Maybe it's because he attends daycare with 5 other girls? Who knows. It really doesn't matter to me. Real men can wear pink!

We were just out shopping tonight at Target and spent over 5 minutes in the toy aisle trying to convince William that he can't buy any toys right now because it's Christmas Time! I have no one to blame but myself. We don't go out very often and when we do, I usually let the boys get something small. Not a good thing to have started.

Off to watch Biggest Loser! Love that show!

Holiday Photo

Here is the photo that I had printed for my cards before I made the one posted below. I am thinking I could always just put this photo inside the envelope with the other one. What to do, what to do?

Merry Christmas!

I was just playing around today with my LifeTimez. I really wanted to get some holiday cards done! I did a super fast photo shoot with the boys today just to get some pictures that I could use for our Christmas cards. Then I got the idea after I sent out for 40 prints of my favorite photo, that I would create a card front with LT. So now I am torn as to whether I should just put the photo in the card or just send out store bought cards with the photo enclosed as I planned. I will load the photo that I chose for my cards later. It is on my desktop. It's more or less the card because I PS'd it with a title and siggy. UGH....Decision, decision.

So tired...

I can't believe how tired I am. I just love this time of year and I don't feel so good and it is making me mad! We got some snow last night! YIPEE!!! I LOVE SNOW! I can't imagine what it would be like to have Christmas without the cold and the snow. To each his own...

I will try to get a picture of it for all my WARM climate friends!!
Speaking of friends...I need a favor. It's postcard time at our school. We need postcards from all 50 states. Plus any other part of the world. SHELL!! WENDY!!

Send them to:
Lincoln Elementary School
TEAM 111 Zander Stiverson
746 N Maple Grove
Hudson, MI 49247

I will email you all privately too about this just incase you don't read this boring blog for awhile!

The rest of the group!

Here are the remaining group of bags. Boy, the espresso was a popular print.

Elisa Lou! They love you!

Here are some more bags from a party that I held on 10-28-06.

More bags!

Sorry it took so long. Got busy with that thing called life again. And I hadn't been on this computer in awhile either. So I forgot about adding them.

Got another call from a past customer and she wants to do a "traveling bag show". This is what I am going to call it. She is just going to take my samples and take orders from her work. I don't have to travel to her place to do it. So that works out great. My sister is going to take her the stuff this weekend and then bring it back next weekend.

Can't wait to see the stuff from my second party. I see it is getting done! I saw some bags on the blog that were ordered by my customers! So won't be long now!

Truly like Christmas when those bags arrive. I almost shed a tear when I deliver them! I want to keep them! This is really a bad business move for me. Psychologically draining... LOL I go thru seperation anxiety with every bag! It's almost as bad as when I give away my photos from a session. There are mine but I have to give them up. I wonder if Elisa goes thru the same issues?! She is truly amazing, isn't she!

WARNING: pictures may cause excessive salivation!

Here are the bags from ElisaLou from my first party. I have more to post but it won't. So I must be at my limit! LOL I will post the others in a second entry and see if that will work.

Calendar sample, busy, busy, busy

Here is a sample of my calendar coaster that I made using the LifeTimez software. I want to make one for certain people in my family for Christmas but I just don't know if I will have the time to find the photos that I want to include on them.

I have my crop tomorrow and have to get up at 3am and head out the door by 4am. What in the heck was I thinking? I should have went up there and stayed the night. I have a two hour drive to get there and I have to be set up and ready by 8am. So I hope I will be able to get all set up in time. I am going to take my grid wall with me this time. The last one I did, I just used a couple of tables and that was just not a good set up for all that I bring. Some Leaving Prints gals had their grid wall and that looked so much better. So I am going to bit the bullet and just take it. It is just such a hassle to deal with when I am alone. But I guess if I want to sell some stuff, I need it to look very nice.

I just have to print off some signs and some flyers and pack the van and I will be ready. I spent last night counting my inventory. I didn't think I had a lot of kits left...WRONG! I am really considering selling things at 30% off retail just to move it. I got most of it at 40% off or slightly better. And at this point. I just would rather have money than product in cubes in my closet.

So the shoppers/croppers there will have a nice surprise at my booth tomorrow!

Off to get ready for the day. Have to take a shower, brush all the teeth in house, and pack a lunch. Then get two kids ready, one off to school, one off to story hour then the sitters, then home to print signs and pack my van. Then off to work at the school. WHEW....gotta run....

So much to do, so little time.

I have a crop this weekend a couple of hours away and I am no where near being ready. I just can't find the motivation to get my butt in gear. I am going to mark my stuff way down just so I can move it. I don't have any expos coming up any time soon and I just want to move some stuff that I have had awhile.

I am sorta getting tired of my scrapbooking business. I just feel like I have lost my zest. I find that I want to scrapbook more than I want to sell it lately. Not a good thing when I have soooo much inventory. I won't be leaving any time soon but I just don't feel like working at making it work. I have sorta found a new passion in the purses. Thats all I can think about lately. It's a bad obsession, I know. I don't have to worry about recruiting anyone or keeping up with my downline. I just have to sell. That is what I love to do.

Well...sitting here typing is not getting my stuff ready for the crop is it? Off to shower and then count. Plus I want to go see my nephew today. He is one week old today! Yeah, Zayden! I have loved you a week and you are in my heart forever.

I will post pictures later once I return home. I want to get some for his birth announcements.

Later....

Monday and have good news...

Just finished my Monday at work. It was a good day overall. Nice patients and nothing major happened. I do want to share some exciting news that I got yesterday in an email. As some of you may know, I changed who I get my bags thru a few weeks ago. Well, I had a party on the 22nd and just got an email on the 5th that they are ready to be shipped out on tuesday. WHAT??? She said she hired someone on to help her get the orders done. WHAT A NOVEL CONCEPT....huh....hire help when you need it?? ODD....Who'da thunk?!

Now if MM could have figure this out some time ago, they might not be in the mess they are in today. Greed...I have said it all along. It's a sin people...

Just had to share my excitement.

My nephew

I just have to share some of my photos. I can't believe how much this little one means to me already! It's so cool being an aunt! William and Zander also enjoy their newest cousin.

It's a boy!

Zayden Michael William Sallows
7# 4oz
20.5" long
born at 6:56pm
11-1-06

FINALLY!!! Wow...that just might go down in the books as the worlds longest labor. Man, I didn't think she would ever have that baby. He is healthy as can be!
This is my brother, Chad, and Baby Zayden.

Still no baby...

My brothers girl was admitted 10-31-06 @ 6:30 am to be induced. I went there in the morning full aware that this would take many hours. I just wanted to be there for support.

Well, here is is 6:30am 11-1-06 and still no baby. I didn't sleep for crap last night knowing I might get "the call". So I am up and ready to go. Called my mom she has heard nothing either. She has been up since 3am waiting. I don't know if I should just go there or what???

I hate this waiting. I remember how it was when I was the patient too. So I try not to act anxious but it is hard to hide! I think I am going to leave now and just stop at a fast food joint once in town and eat. Then head over to the hospital. Oh...please let her have this baby today. I can't take much more!

If you can't say something nice...

My mom always said that if you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all. I am going to use that as my reason for not posting here in awhile. So much crap going on in my life. It's all stemming from one place too. Funny how one thing can consume your life. I just found another option for my pain but still am afraid to talk about it. I don't want to jinx anything. It's seems like once I find something great, it always turns out badly. I have the scars to prove it! LOL

I am so fed up with my old Purse party company. Grrr...Shell knows where I am coming from on this topic. Now I have found a single person who will supply me with these most awesome bags and I am afraid to say anything about it because I don't want to ruin it. www.elisalou.com crap...now I blew it. The secret is out. I just can't stop thinking about these dang bags. If you like what you see, put my name in the comment box should you order one or five! I did a party on saturday with them and the response was great. Didn't get anymore bookings off it, but I didn't ask either. I am so scared to ask anyone else to have one until I know that things will come as promised. I am scared of promises too.

I have had so many promises in my life from people in my life that never happen so I just don't count on anything any more. Sad, huh. It sucks when you have had the life sucked out of you more than once! LOL

So anyways...these new bags are killer. And the price is right too! The quality is beyond what I have seen. Lots of people on my gift list are going to get to know Elisa Lou Designs! I can't wait to place the order. I just can't figure out what fabrics for whom.

Off to work...

Download overload

Oh man...I am so tired of trying to download stuff. I have been trying to install my Adobe Photoshop creative suites 2 program for a few days with no success. Called tech support and didn't get the help I needed. They gave me a new number to call. I was on hold for over an hour. UGH...then I got transfered to another person because I was in the wrong area. WTF? So I finally got to the correct person, THANK YOU JESSICA @ ADOBE! and she helped me get around the bug and get it downloaded.

Then at the same time on my laptop I am trying to download the new TLC DIGI kits...again...WTF...it has taken me almost 3 hours on DSL connection. Oh and to top it off...I sat down and saw that my email was open and thought maybe that was slowing it down so I CLOSED IT.....AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH........it shut the download off too!!! SERIOUSLY!!! I was so mad. And I saw it was up to 80% complete as I was screaming, NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOO. I am since redownloading and after 40 minutes I am only at 34%. Will this ever end?

So, I am on download overload!

Sinus infections

Why is it that I am repeatedly getting these stupid sinus infections? I feel like crap today. I started another round of antibiotics yesterday. Let's hope this doesn't last long. I have our annual scavenger hunt on saturday. It's has a new twist to it this year. Can't post what just yet as it is a surprise. But let's just say it took me awhile to get this done, edited, and printed.

Hope the weather holds out for us. Sounds the beginning of the week is going to be in the 60's so let's hope saturday is near the same. Don't want rain no matter how warm it is!

Well, off to work. Let's hope I can make it thru the whole day. I have class tonight too. And the Maddy Moo call...although I don't know why I am going to bother. I guess, it's like a train wreck...you have to look. Just a peek. I swear, they messed up a great thing. I am so saddened by the whole ordeal. However, you reap what you sow. I just hope I get what I am owed before 2007 shows up!

It's gotta be the meds talking right now! LOL I am not usually so bitter.

Cyst is gone!

Just got home from the doctors office. The huge horn growing out the top of my head is history! LOL The injection burnt like the dickens but it is gone! Two little stitches is all I needed. I looked at it. It was the size of a gumball. Looked just like a piece of chewed gum too! LOL was that TMI?

I was done in about 15 minutes. I asked them if they wanted to pierce the top of my ear lobe since it was numb. You know how you see those people with the rod thru the top of the ear. Wouldn't I look so cool?! AS IF!

Well, now I just sit and wait for the lidocaine to wear off! FUN~ Best go take some advil now!

Why do I bother?

I wonder I even bother to have a blog somedays. I just don't remember to post here much. Plus I don't have the time. I have cut myself wwwaaayyyyy to thin lately. Again...N O it's just two little letters. Just one shape of my mouth. One small breath of air outward will produce the sound. Just do it, Rach. Say NO. It's ok.

Oh wait...I do say no. I said no to the blog! LOL I don't post here often so I must be saying no.

UPDATE: I turned down a wedding on sunday! YEAH ME! My first step in learning to say no. I had a Maddy Moo party already scheduled for that day. And besides...who calls someone two weeks before a wedding and expects you to do it? I now understand that the first photographer has a family emergency and can't do it. But still. She acted sorta upset when I said no. Just another reason why I can't say no. It hurts feelings. I hate hurting peoples feelings. Makes me feel like crap. That poor bride. Man, I am making myself feel worse rather than better. UGH....

Girls weekend

I am heading up North for the weekend for a girls only weekend with my best friend from college. We started this last year. We just pack all our SB stuff and set up tables and just scrapbook all weekend long. I need to start packing for it tomorrow. I have not done something for personal reasons in soooo long. Sure I do my monthly AC kits but I consider that business work. I am going to take all my pictures and hope that I make a dent!

Then my October is all about Maddy Moo. I have 4 parties booked. One for 10-3-06, 10-7-06, 10-23-06, 10-28-06. And I have a lady that is booking off the 23rd party. So I know I will have one more for sure. My goal is to get two bookings off each party. I want to keep busy up until Thanksgiving and then I take a couple of months off of all my side businesses. Just keep cleaning teeth. But that is it. It's family time.

Well, better get some stuff done around the house so I can spend the day tomorrow packing my stuff! I am hoping this will get me organized at the same time. I have stuff shoved in all different spots so it will be hard to find it all. But once I do, I will get it organized and keep it that way! LOL (hey, it looks good in print)

Busy Day

What a day. Our plumbing line to our main water supply broke today. We have been without water for about 6 hours. The boys don't care. They love that they can pee outside! LOL But I have just held it all day.

What a great topic, eh?!

Well I have been very busy working on projects. I got an frog album done, two envelope albums for the swap with KKG, and one for personal use. I got the pictures from last weekends wedding done and turned them over. Fixed our broken water line, well, ok....I held the flashlight and swept up the mess. And helped put the sink/cabinet back in place. Went to a SU! party. Found the cutest purse stamps!! I will be adding them into my Maddy Moo business.
Printed off the MM catalog.

Wow...and it's only 6:30pm.

Went on the school field trip on friday to Sauder's Village. Rained off & on but still had a nice time. One of the boys that was in our group said to his mom, "Mrs. Stiverson is yelling at me more than you, Mom." FUNNY!
Well, if the kid would not run off or go places that were off limits...not to mention...I waited for the mother to correct him and she didn't so I did! Geesh...How hard can it be to tell your child not to walk on the train tracks? The sign clearly said, DANGER! No One Past this point. Train is active.

Um...yeah....then don't let your 8 yo go running down the tracks. DUH!

Anyways...

Off to pick up the house. Looks like a Toys R Us store right now!

Happy Birthday Zander! #8

7:41am....he is now officially 8! WOW....When, how did this happen? I only blinked. I promise.

We started the day off with a 2 hour delay because of fog. It's also picture day.

It's sure to a crazy day at school because of that. We got the cupcakes there with no major problems. Picked up the cake. Now I need to go clean the house to get ready for company tonight.

I am up to my eyes with Baby shower favors and scrapbooking stuff. I was working on a project and didn't get it done so it is all piled on my dining room table. Oh how I love digital scrapbooking! LOL No mess. Just save and close my laptop!

More later...

September 11th

I can't believe it has been 5 years since the world was changed forever. I was not affected directly by that event but I have been to NYC to see ground zero. It is a sobering experience. I can't even explain the feelings that rushed over me as I stood there looking out over this huge pit in the middle of a city filled with people. I turned around at one point to look at what was around me and I could see in my head that cloud of smoke and debris coming up the street and the images of people running away. I wondered for a split second what it must have felt like to have lived thru such an event. I am thankful to the core that I can only wonder. I pray I never have such an event brush into my life. I still have that same feeling come over me every time I see the photos from that trip. I transport myself back to that time and I can just feel the goosebumps on my arms starting rise. I am so lucky that I could visit this area first hand. It really helped me to understand the magnitude of the buildings, the surface area, and how many people where really affected directly by that act. As I stood there behind the fence looking up all the other buildings around there I had to remind myself that the height of the world trade center was still taller than any other building in the area. Being a country girl, it was so hard for me to understand the greatness of those structures. The height of them was more than I could imagine. I still can't believe it has happened in my life time.

I did take a moment today to pray for those affected and to really think about how lucky I am to live in a country where we are allowed so many freedoms. I am happy to have my life and thankful for my family and friends. I am truly blessed.

God Bless Us All...and for that we thank YOU.

Back To School

I am 35 y.o. and still dread the night before school. I don't know why. I can never sleep well. His love of school is such a relief. I had always wondered if my love of knowledge would pass on to my children and so far it has. I get such a warm feeling in my heart when I see him with his face buried in a book. I remember how I was at that age. I would lay in bed at night with a little flashlight under the covers so I could continue with that Great Book of the moment.

I signed up to take a photoshop class on Monday nights. It's just 5 weeks. It's a second course. I just hope that this time around I learn something useful. Last time the teacher was not so good and the students were even worse. If you can't "right Click" you don't belong in a photoshop class. I was going to hit the lady next to me so many times. She wanted to know how to "right click" ARE YOU KIDDING ME? There were a couple of aged people in there shouldn't have been. I have nothing against seniors learning computers but take the basics first. Not a photoshop class. Zoink...

I have the lunch sack packed and the backpack is ready. Clothes are picked out. Bathes are done. Both, err I mean, all three, KIDS are in bed! LOL I am just sitting here reflecting on what is to come and what we have completed. I wrote a tiny card out to Zander for his lunch sack. I hope he doesn't find it until lunch tomorrow. I just told him how proud I was of him and how fast he is growing up. I will surely miss him something terrible. I feel like a lose a small piece of him every new school year. I wonder if he will still always feel like my little boy. I hope he does. I pray he always knows...

Back to school...

Labor Day

I really don't think Labor Day means that you labor over house work all day. But that is how I plan to spend it. Just need to get some Hard Core Cleaning done. Gotta get ready for Fall.

Off to clean...probably won't be on here the rest of the weekend.