Weekend of Rest

My what a dreary weekend we had here. Rain and fog - what fun! This is the view out our front window. Welp - not much to do but hunker down and relax. Well, sort of. Really we got a lot done. Wanted to get more done, but will give myself credit for about 20 loads of laundry, all bed linens washed and remade, curtains hung in every child's room, grocery shopping done and menu planned for the week, made two meals tonight and froze half of both (black bean and shrimp soup for us and homemade breaded chicken tenders for the kids), all (ALL) my scrap stuff rescued from my mom's house and brought here, oh - and I "un" decorated too. Not too bad I guess. Lots of other little stuff between there too. What we didn't do was a ton of running around, that was nice.


Really all of us got to do what we wanted. Here is Ethan playing with his favorite Christmas gift which was his wooden toolbench. He has played with it a LOT. I won't say non-stop, he has many gifts he likes - but this is up there.


Unfortunately Ethan also got sick this weekend. High fever and really lethargic due to it. Today he was doing better fever wise, but has such a sore throat that he hardly ate - I guess I'm off to the pediatrician tomorrow.





The other pictures are of Abbie playing the Wii which as you can imagine is a BIG hit here. Max is wrestling (note my poor leg in the shot) and Jeff is playing with his laptop (not really, trying to catch up on work email is more like it).

Uh, I am having trouble with the layout of these pictures and trying to write. I think next entry I am going back to the picture being in the middle. It's just easier for me that way.

So, as far as resolutions go I am challenging myself to a new one. Last post I didn't go into scrapbooking too much but I've been thinking about it a lot today. There are many things I want to do with my meager scrappin time.

1. I want to do a year long calendar this year. I love the one I did of 2006 and found it really easy to do. I just keep up with writing what we did on blank calendar grid paper like this. Then each month I do a one page layout on whatever exciting happened. Easy.

2. In the month of January (yeah, I know, it's the sixth already) I want to do a page a day finish work. It is crazy how many "almost done" pages or projects I have laying around. If I can pull off finishing 31 of those things I will be thrilled. Anyone else do that? Anyone else up for the challenge?????

3. I need to be packing up things to do for an overnight crop with Heather at the end of the month. If I don't start that soon I won't have enough to do. So I have to get on that.

Well I am all over the place tonight. I guess that's what happens when I am better about writing. Really I need to try to write during the morning when I am more awake!

I hope you have a great week - let me know if you want to join in on the 31 page challenge. Oh, and how are your resolutions going?

Take care! :)