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Happy Birthday Ty!

My son Ty is two years old today. My baby #3 is a baby no more. *sigh* How can he already be two? Where does the time go? He's the sweetest little guy. Happy, funny and for the most part an easy kid. I love you, son. Looking forward to seeing what the next year holds for us.

This is a busy weekend for us, as Samantha was 3 months old yesterday. Another one of my babies, getting older. Slow down, baby! She's already trying to roll over. She has a very quick smile and just the sweetest temperment. She could definitely tempt me to have more kids. Such a little angel.

Made my day

Doesn't it just make your day when someone praises your work? I just got an email from a woman who said she loved my Russia LOs from the MM Travel issue. She said she is working on her honeymoon album and she is going to lift my designs for it. Some people get upset when people copy their designs. Honestly, I find it to be the highest forms of flattery. Someone wants to scrapbook like ME??? I'm honored.

Then I post a couple of new layouts in the 2Peas gallery and someone said one of the layouts was "the most outstanding design I have seen in ages." Boy, talk about making a gal feel good. Gosh, did I need that!!

Because I just had a baby, I haven't been scrapbooking and publishing as much as I was last year, so I feel a bit out of it. And I just recently had to decide not to do Chatterbox's Make It Meaningful contest this year, so I was a little bummed out. It just felt nice to hear nice things. So, just a little tip: go praise someone's work cause you never know when it could make their day!!!

What I do all day

Luckily for him, my husband has never asked me this. But I went through the day yesterday and actually thought about what I do all day. Sometimes I get to dinnertime and look around and the house doesn't look a lot different than it did when I got up that morning. Yesterday was Saturday and typically my husband is home, but yesterday he was off doing stuff. So I kind of paid attention to what I do.

Morning: Make coffee, feed the kids, feed myself, get 4 kids dressed and change 2 (and hopefully only 2) diapers, make some I.D. cards (it's a side job of mine), put in a load of laundry, nurse Samantha 2-3 times and load and run the dishwasher.

Afternoon: Make lunch for the kids, put the boys down for naps, eat lunch myself, get Rebekah set up watching a movie or playing and Samantha sleeping in the swing and lay down on my couch to take a short nap myself (ahhhh), dry and fold laundry load, empty dishwasher, nurse Samantha 2-3 more times, handwash bigger dishes and wipe down counters, have kids pick up their toys from living room and vacuum house, and check email.

Evening: Make dinner for the kids, put their pj's on, make the kids warm milk to drink, start Joel and my dinner while Joel gets the kids in bed, nurse Samantha, eat dinner, watch some TV while working on some more ID cards, scrapbook a bit, read before bed, pick up Samantha and head to bed. Wake up several times a night to nurse Samantha.

That's quite the day. Not a single bon-bon all day! LOL. Although I do try to get a nap on the couch every day, not that I'm always successful. It's a busy life. Not always the most exciting, but there is nowhere else I'd rather be than this.

It's done!

My HOF entry is done & arrived at CK this morning FedEx. So, it's all in their hands now. I've done my part. :) Five nights staying up till 2 a.m. really paid off. Hee-hee.

I'm very happy with my entry this year. Instead of stessing over what I thought they were looking for, I just did what I wanted to do. It was very freeing. :) And now I have 10 LOs that I've very proud of and are publishable elsewhere if CK doesn't want them. I'm not holding my breath that I'll win, but I feel like it's good to enter. Besides, I can't win at all if I don't enter, right? ;)

Now I have assignments piled up to finish for MM and my CBX MIM entry to do. Boy, February is a busy month! Why does it all seem feast or famine in the scrapbook world? First CHA, then HOF, then MIM...goodness! They need better spacing! I had hardly a thing to do in November or December. Of course that's good cause I just had a baby, but still...

Oh, thought I would post this link for Valentine's e-cards from the Moody Bible Institute. They're on the 5 Love Languages. And if you send a card, you get entered into a drawing for a $50 dinner out. Here it is: Valentine's eCards

Well, my kiddos won't give me a second and are literally screaming at each other in the kitchen. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" my nearly 2-year-old is yelling. My 4-year-old is crying because the nearly 2-year-old is yelling at him. And my 5 1/2-year-old is bossing them both around. Of course the baby is sleeping sweetly through the whole thing in her swing. Did I mention what an angel she is? Anyway, off to referree...