I can post this layout since the kit was released today! I used Forest of Love by Geek Chic Scraps.

I am going back to the eye doctor tomorrow, but not feeling too optimistic. It seems like I have had problems with this one eye for months now with no relief in sight. I can't wear my contacts anymore, so that is making me sad, especially when I have to exercise with my glasses flapping and slipping around! I am seeing my regular eye doctor, at least, so maybe the guy I saw last time just didn't know what he was doing. I can always hope!

I just have to say again that I am so happy we started this whole chore thing with the kids. Tonight they both chose to vacuum their rooms for their chore. The house seems to stay neater, and it's nice to have them take more reponsibility without complaining about it!

Owen is having his friend Abbie come over on Friday since there is no school and I'm not on-call for work. He is excited about it, and hopefully the weather will be o.k. since she wants to try out the trampoline.

I had to get my CPR re-certification this weekend. A lot of it you can do online, and then my boss taught the hands-on part of the class with the dummies. We woke up to snow this morning, so it was not the best day to have to drive all the way to Highlands Ranch. Luckily I was able to catch a ride with another co-worker and my boss since she lives nearby, and she even took us out to lunch afterwards.

Scot and I went downtown Saturday night to watch a recorder group. They play jazz music and also use a sackbut (like a trombone), percussion, and have a singer. It was fun, although it's not my favorite type of music. I always like to go downtown every once and awhile to see how the "hip" half lives.

These are two pages I made with the new Marni Designs kit called Be Mine, which was released today. My challenge was to use it for something other than Valetine's Day, since I don't have a lot of those photos to scrap. Luckily it works for many occasions!

I was excited to finally hook up my new external hard drive, which connects simply with a USB port. What could go wrong? Well, Scot and I had to come to the conclusion that it was defective, because we tried it on 4 different computers, all with different operating systems, and it wouldn't show up on any of them. I will have to take it back and try to exchange it, but I'm wondering if I should get a different brand, since it doesn't exactly inspire confidence to get a defective one right off the bat! Scot had a different brand of EHD that I plugged into my laptop and it showed up right away with no problems, so I don't think my computer is the issue. So irritating!

This a sneak peek for a new kit coming out tomorrow by Marni Designs. It's called Be Mine.

The Store at Polka Dot Plum

It seems that Scrapable is back up with new and better owners. However, since none of my CT designers are in the store there anymore, I will probably be an infrequent visitor. It was the first forum I became active in, but after they started to have issues, I found some other cool forums to get involved in. One of them was BrownieScraps, where I was recently lucky enough to be accepted on a CT for one of my favorite designers there, Marni Designs! I can't wait to get started with her new kits, and I have already used one of her older ones on a few layouts when I first got it a couple months ago.

Next week is a busy one at school for the kids. They have the 100th Day party and then the Valentine party the next day, and lastly the Friday and Monday off from school. I am trying to see if Owen's piano teacher has an opening on a different day because Owen wants to take another after-school drama class, which is on the same day as his piano lesson. Hopefully it will work out, or he'll have to make a choice about which one he wants to do. Soccer will be starting after spring break, so I am already dreading those weeks!