Not bad

Work was not bad today since we were slow again. Things were pretty busy during the school break. Scot had to drive downtown tonight for work stuff, and of course it's freezing cold and snowy. I will wait up for him, not that I need an excuse to stay up late. I should probably work on a scrapbook page, but I was distracted by watching Closer on IFC. Clive Owen is hard to ignore!

The kids had a fun day back at school. They were up early, dressed, and urging me out the door, so I think they were excited to see their friends again. We didn't do much socializing during the break, apart from one afternoon at the roller skating rink. We met friends there, and then sisters that are in each of their classes showed up, so they saw even more kids they knew. I guess Owen and his school friend were skating around holding hands. I didn't see it, but her mom came up to talk to me and said something about it. I'm glad a lot of Owen's friends are girls!

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Wishing I didn't have to work tomorrow, but that's nothing new. I need to call and make an appointment for my eye to be looked at by the real eye doctor, and maybe get a hair cut. Most of all, I am excited to get back to my excercise routine. I didn't have much time while my family was visiting, and then the class schedule was kind of weird through the holidays. Scot and I are going to the 12th Night dinner on Saturday and then I have a work party Sunday night, so I have a few things to look forward to. I got my script for the reading today, so I just need to get my Toga for Saturday night, and make sure Scot doesn't bring the camera. hahaha

Contest

I signed up for a month long contest at DSA. Each week we get some minikits to work with, and a layout is due on Friday. I already did my page for this week. The contest is for a chance to be on the CT for the site for 3 months, but I am only doing it for fun and to try and challenge myself. There are some really talented people participating!

School Break

I made a page using Bloodlust by Pixiemama Designs. I know the kit was inspired by the Twilight Series, so I guess seeing New Moon on Saturday made me want to use it!

I am starting to think I need the school routine more than the kids do. Without a schedule, it is hard for me to even be motivated to get up in the morning!! Luckily the kids don't rely on me to fix breakfast, or they would be eating brunch instead. It doesn't help that I have been staying up later than normal all this vacation. Declan's preschool teacher was supposed to call about bowling today, but I haven't heard from her yet. If not, I guess we'll find something else to do. I am glad that the kids are spending more time outside since we set up the trampoline, but we are getting another cold snap, so they won't be doing much jumping this week, I think.

Chore Chart

I finally finished a new project! This couldn't have come at a better time since we are getting more formal about chores for the new year. The kids have things they need to do every day, the basic stuff like picking up after themselves, getting dressed, etc., but now they will have a can-do list that they can pick from in order to get an allowance. It is optional, but I assume they will want the chance to earn some money! I used the hybrid rewards chart and Get This Party Started kits from Pixiemama Designs.



I wanted to make it nice and festive so the chores will seem appealing! haha

It seems there are tons more digital scrapbooking forums than I realized. I need to find one more to join, but it might be hard to decide! It is a little overwhelming, but I suppose some are bigger/more active than others.

Christmas layout

So this year I signed up for the Jessica Sprague free class called Holidays in Hand. She gave us a template and a list of prompts of things to journal about and subjects to photograph. Although I have only completed a few pages so far, I did make notes and plans for the rest of the layouts. I plan to print the pages out for a 6 X 6 album when they are done. I was lucky enough to find the Holiday Sugar Cookie blogtrain, so I got a bunch of mini kits that all used the same color palette. This page used the kit by DIGI_licious Designs.