Procrastination

Procrastination should be my middle name. I procrastinate for anything and everything. I wait for the very last minute to do just about anything. In my classroom, I procrastinate grading papers, printing grades, making updates, putting up bulletin boards... you name it, I wait to do it. But the thing is.... sometimes the longer I wait the better it turns out. I am a master procrastinator. I procrastinate at least one thing each day, if not a dozen things. I really can't figure out why I feel the need, but it is my thing. I have always been a procrastinator. I don't think it really bugs my family too much, but sometimes it works against me because my husband is a master procrastinator as well. At least we can't give each other too much grief about it! :)

Collections

This is my first time doing a blog challenge. Today's topic is collections. This took a bit of time to figure out what I actually collect and it came to me. I collect RIBBON. I love ribbon. All of the beautiful colors and textures. Grosgrain, shear, satin..... checkered, polka dots, stripes and all. Ribbon makes me happy. I have been collecting ribbon for just over a year, when I started scrapbooking. I saw all of the great layouts in the different galleries and knew I had to get into the ribbon craze. My ribbon is kept in photo boxes, multiple boxes, and is always at an arm's length. I know this might not a common collection, but it allows me to have so much color in one place. There are so many places to get ribbon. I shop at Michael's, JoAnn's, Hobby Lobby, and my LSS. Ribbon is a good thing. :)

A weekend of babies

This weekend was full of babies. Friday night, I had a Ladies Night with the girls at work. It was inevitable that babies would be high on the list of topics. I tried to dodge the questions: When? When? and When? Truth be known, I have no clue when. I don't want to bring a baby into an apartment that we are quickly outgrowing. Another truth: I am terrified of getting pregnant. It stems from my Mom's troubles. And I will just have to get over that in the future. I have time. So Friday night was speckled with the baby questions and I survived.

Saturday was my cousin's baby shower. She received so many cute items. My mom was beside herself with excitement of what it would be like if I were pregnant. I understand her excitement, I just want it to tone down for awhile until we are pregnant. For the mom to be, I made a "Baby Boy" paint can with an incredibly soft blue blanket and a little rubber ducky. I really liked how this turned out. I have so much fun altering items and giving them as gifts. It is such a stress relief. But anyhow, the weekend was nice. After the shower we went to visit my grandpa and it was tough. It is hard to see a new life getting ready to begin and then seeing an older life seeming to slip away. It brought back a lot of memories, good and bad. We then went back to my gradparent's house for supper. Grandma's noodles would save any day. It was nice to see my family. I hadn't seen them since Christmas. They headed back to Tennessee and we all headed back home. We made an impromptu stop at Audra's and went for icecream that evening. It was a late drive home, but a fulfilling day. Now for another week of school. Thank goodness testing is done.

It begins...

So today I took the plunge. I have a morning ritual on the weekdays. I wake up. I take a shower. I make breakfast. I then eat said breakfast and browse the Net. As I browse, I check in with many blogs from my favorite people. It is an addiction, an obsession. And so this morning, I decided to give in to the black hole that is blogging. I don't know how often I will post, but I figure it is a good way to share my thoughts instead of keeping them in and also showing my family my newest pieces of scrapwork. So we will see where this goes...