We woke up to snow this morning…7 inches! What!? It WAS nice to have our Spring Break extended by one more day…and I’m looking at only 3 days of teaching this week. That’s a nice way to ease back into the routine.
Today wasn’t such a great day. I don’t know what it is, but my kids were like trying to eat all day. By about 4 I decided it had to be because they were bored. They were also fighting a lot. Well, he have been spending a lot more time together this last week, I guess. Anyway…after they have consumed half of the snacks and stuff I bought for lunches this week, I closed the kitchen…no more food till Dinner. And I started giving them jobs to do. They were kind of motivated since we got back on track with the Dave Ramsey way of working for money to GIVE, SAVE & SPEND. But it was hard to make them do a good job.
We did dye our Easter Eggs today. I actually did half of them. It just isn’t the same. They don’t care about decorating them, they just want to eat them. I suppose it will just get less important to them. It’s kind of sad.
I also got paint out today for them to do a painting. Savannah did a cute fairy picture…Karson painted something about firemen or robbers or something…Max just played and made designs and stuff. It was really funny. Karson wanted to PAINT his egg with watercolors. It is actually really cute. I thought it was funny that he wanted to be different.
I told you I’d post my pages from the Scrapbook Weekend I went to last weekend, so here they are. They are from Jasmin’s album.
I know…7 pages isn’t much…but I spent Friday evening and some of Sat. morning preparing for the workshops that I taught in the afternoon on saturday. And after I taught them, I slept until dinner…so really…I only worked on MY scrapbook for about 8 hours all together ( I’m guessing.)
The last page I really love. I made 3 pockets, with notes that slip out. The first one tells about how Jasmin was named after our babysitter Jasmin (aka MIMI), the last one is about her and how she is important to our family, and on the middle one I have asked Jasmin to write a note to baby Jasmin about her. I actually would like to make a page like this for each of our kid’s albums and have her do the same for them. I asked her to think about what she might like to write. I think it would be so special for them. She has been so much a part of their lives the past 5 years. I know they will enjoy looking back at something like that when they grow older and perhaps won’t see her as often.
…I think I’ve kind of developed a theme with color, embellishments and techniques in this scrapbook of Jasmin’s. I really like the unified way it looks compared to my other album…where the pages are designed around the event. You should see some of my old albums. Too funny, yet, I love to look through them. They are so different than what I do now. You can see how I went through phases of materials and design. Interesting (to me) to compare all the albums. I have finished 1 wedding album, 1 album of a trip to Florida, 2 baby albums of Savannah’s, a college album (me) and 2 Sam and Julie scrapbooks (1990-2000). UNFINISHED: Karson’s (left off at 3 wks), Max’s (left off at 6 mos.), Jasmin’s (about 3 weeks done), & Savannah’s from age 3-9!, a super cute ABC album I started when Savannah was 3, and another Durocher family album that ends at 2002 and only has about 17 pages in it. I really do like to scrapbook. I should do it more often. I have a friend that does 30 pages in one day!!! That’s not me. We approach scrapbooking from two totally different views. I really think mine out. Envision it in my mind, sometimes sketch the design. I have a lot of layering. I coordinate colors. I often add embellishments and draw/doodle on my pages to enhance the design of the page. It’s more of a work of art by the time I am through, I’m afraid. Which doesn’t work well for me in getting anywhere with these unfinished albums. But I enjoy it when I get the chance to work on them (over the past few years it has only been 1-4 times a year). What I really should do is instead of blogging about it, get up and go clean up my room so I can set up my scrapbook stuff to do some more pages. Yeah. But it’s now midnight, so maybe tomorrow. 😉