My new favorite page!

I had a blast last night playing with my new stamps and came up with a new Layout that I really am loving right now. I am so happy with the result. It calms my worries that I couldn't scrap anything that had to do with boys :) I also just sent the last of our First year pictures into Walgreen's to be printed. One year down, one to go.... and then on to my parent's Family Album. Take care!

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...