on the home stretch!

ella has 3 more weeks of school and abby has 5...i don't know if i can last that long! LOL! i am SOOOOOO ready for summer break to start!

i am still working feverishly on those preschool scrapbooks...gonna be pulling some late nights here for the next couple weeks. i did actually get to play with a card yesterday. we have a niece that is graduating from high school...and i needed to keep it simple. but it was fun to play for a short while!

during the past week things have gotten real interesting as i managed to pinch a nerve in my neck and pretty much lost almost all use of my left shoulder. it is getting better...S.L.O.W.L.Y. i start physical therapy next week. i really don't have time for this! LOL, but i don't have a choice. i am no good when i am not running at 100%.

the die cut image is from lyrical letters cricut cartridge.

now back to reality!

happy mothers day mom!

so i am a bad daughter...i am behind on everything...but especially sending my mother her mothers day card. sorry mom! since i know you read my blog you can see it here! (and in real life when it shows up in your mailbox).

i seriously have the most amazing mother in the world. and i appreciate her more everyday that i am a mother. i apologize to her a lot too. i wasn't the best kid...far from easy. and i am getting some of the pay back for that now...but i wouldn't have anyone else in the world be my mom! she is the craftiest, smartest, most genuine and beautiful person i know. there isn't anything she wouldn't do for me or the rest of my siblings in a heartbeat. (well having her fly to korea to see me was probably stretching it! lol!) she mastered the art of time management with 4 kids and the chaos that goes along with it...and i don't think i will ever figure out her trick.

anyways...i am SO sorry to not get this in the mail...but i love you mom so much and hope you had a very nice mothers day!

i made 2 cards...so you will have to see which one you get:)

papers are all October Afternoon (my fav!!). sketches are theirs too! i can not WAIT to get my hands on all their new papers!! woohoo!

a little sidetracked...

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this is what happens when i can't bring myself to work on the preschool scrapbook! lol! actually since the weather was great the last couple days AND my kids needed to go outside, i might as well be productive, right? so this is off my back deck.


it looks so small for the amount of work it was...more to come:)

a little project...

so i am in the middle of making scrapbooks for all the kids in ellas preschool class. 13 kids. 13 scrapbooks. god help me.

i decided to go about this all digitally trying to keep the lines clean and streamlined and loading them with lots of pics. the patterned paper on the 1st day of school page are the colors used throughout the book to tie them together.

i am a little behind. there are 6 weeks of preschool left...so if you don't see me for the next 6 weeks, you know where i'm at and what i'm doing.

getting back into a groove

well i have been gone awhile. sick kiddos are now well. grandparents have visited and left. and i am renewed.

i made this a few weeks back in between sick kids...

and this is what my parents and i worked on this past week...some raised planter boxes. one will be for veggies and the other for flowers. it was a lot of work, but i am so pleased with how they came out and glad my parents could help me out with them! they are 8'x8'.

now i just have to wait for it to get warmer...apparently planting season up here kicks off memorial day weekend...geesh! but i will be ready!!

in recovery mode

well the grandparents are here and i am SOOOO glad to have the extra help!

in the last month we have had 3 cases of pink eye, bronchitis, strep throat (twice), an ear infection...and this past week..just when i thought it couldn't get ANY worse...abby was sent home from school with a rash. after a trip to the docs, we think it is an allergic reaction to her antibiotic. it just didn't show up until she was on day 9 of 10 days.

her rapid mono test came back neg. but the scary thing was that when they restested her for strep after 9 days on antibiotics, it came back positive again. so we are on new drugs...getting over the most horrendous rash i have ever seen...and very, very greatful it is spring break here and she still has time to recover before school starts again.

so thats where i have been, why i have been absent, and why i will be gone a little longer.

yeah! it's not strep!

ok seriously people...i am so tired of dealing with sick kids! last week they double whammied me with bronchitis and pink eye...and i washed the sheets and everything else religiously to prevent it being spread. then abby starts to cough and sneeze...obviously she had acquired her sisters cold.

fast forward to last night, bedtime and the tears...her throat hurts really bad...ugh.

so back to the doctor we went this morning and the rapid strep test is negative (hallelujah!) they are still culturing it, but no news is good news...right now both kids are at school and i am off to plan some chicken noodle soup for dinner. man i need a nap!