Happy Armistice Day

Actually I do know it's Veteran's Day, but growing up with a grandmother who witnessed WWI, and referred to 11/11 as Armistice Day, it's hard to separate the two terms. My wonderful father volunteered for the Navy for WWII, he served on a troop transport ship in the Pacific. He was called up for Korea (we believe it was a mistake - the Navy was actually looking for his younger brother) and he served (not sure where at first), but finished out in the Mediterranean (what the heck? lol).

My nephew joined right after high school. Mostly because it was the smart thing to do. He put in in his five years and was honorably discharged (with the $$ for college in hand lol).

My father-in-law joined the army right before Korea, so he ended up there for quite a long time. He made many good friends, has many horrible stories, but he's still proud of what he did. He was still in the army when Vietnam started, and almost got sent there too if it weren't for his flying skills. The CIA intervened, got his orders cancelled and sent him to Laos to fly for his tour.

I can't help but think of family today. My father is long gone, and so are his stories of serving, I don't get to see my nephew enough as he lives 1100 miles away, but my father-in-law is here and is always willing to regale us with a tale or two from his tour in Korea.

So here's to all the veterans - past, present and future- thank you!!

I scrapped a bit this week with a couple of CT kits. Don't forget the Pick N' Mix kits are on sale only until the 15th!

Have a great week and don't forget to thank a veteran today! TTFN!!

DSC Brag Book Blog Train!!

Some of the CT members/designers at DSC are participating in a blog train! Hop around to all the stations to grab lots of great 4×6 brag book pages! They are all made using the Oct. "Pick ‘N’ Mix” items at DSC! (All on sale for $2, but only through October 16th!) Below is a preview of mine in use :)

You may download it here.

Here is a list of all the blogs:
Grace
Trish
Chelcee
Isabelle
Val
Ann-Katrine
Di
Tracy
Asa
Nicole
Claire

We hope you enjoy your ride on our blog train!! All of us should have our posts up by the end of the day. If you get to a blog and it hasn’t been posted, please, go back later in the day and check again. Remember, we are all on different time zones here in the digi world.

Shhhhhhh Don't Tell Anyone.......

........but my bud is a Star Scout!!!! Woot!!! (well almost, he hasn't had his board of review which is a formality and he won't get the badge till next month, but he did it!)

Guess now I need to push Life Scout some eh? No rest for the wicked or moms that want/need to help out. LOL Besides I have as much fun as he does watching him learn and grow. I don't expect him to make Eagle by 14, but I'd like to see him finish in a timely manner instead of rushing the week before he turns 18.

He even surprised me by climbing this weekend. I thought for sure he wouldn't try it, but he used the autobelay and had fun with it. The only part of the climbing badge that he didn't finish was repelling down. I can't say that I blame him for not wanting to do that. A couple other boys didn't want to do it either. Heck he's only 12, they'll go climbing again, and by then I bet he'll be willing to try.

Time to go watch some mindless tv and relax before another crazy week :) TTFN!!

I'm a Huskie Mom

Well not literally.........I think. My oldest received his acceptance letter to NIU today and we did the happy dance :) So next fall he gets to finish his last two years of school at Northern. I'm glad. Now the lunk has to keep his grades up and make sure all the paperwork gets submitted in a timely manner. (ha a man? they must be nuts to expect that LOL)

On a scrapping note I want to wish my boss/good friend Laura Burger a very happy birthday! 29 again, right? LOL Speaking of Laura she has a brand new kit out today Morning Mocha and it's a beauty! Go check it out here at ACOT

I even scrapped my younger son, the camping dude with it. Credits HERE

Speaking of camping, I need to help him finish packing for their trip this weekend to go climbing in a grain silo. Have a great weekend, TTFN!

Recipe Blog Train

Hello Everyone! Today the Creative Team members from Digital Scrap Cafe are starting a blog train and we are sharing our favorite one dish recipes with you.

Each recipe card was made using the September Collab kit called Cooking/BBQ/Picnic
My card is for a family favorite. All in one dish, easy peasy :)

I've also included a blank card so you can add your own recipe to it as well :)

Your next stop on the train is Isabelle's blog HERE. If for some reason you get lost, you can go back to the DSC blog and return to anyones blog that might be missing their card. With all of us on different times we all may not have posted, but rest assured we will by the end of the day.

Click here to get your cards

TTFN and enjoy!!

September 1st Already?

Wow this year is just flying by. My youngest is now a 7th grader. He even gets to walk to school now that we moved. Pretty cool, at least in his mind it is. I'm kinda glad he's not on the bus to be honest. He told so many horror stories about the middle school kids and how rotten they were. Hopefully by the time they're in high school they'll mature enough so it won't be so terrible. (At least they did for my other two so here's hoping.)

My other house has been painted inside and now we need to put a few finishing touches on it. It's already on the market, but a few cheap tweaks won't hurt. I'm tired of trying to sort out our things here and get work done there. It's awful. Plus doing all the normal mom things every week I'm in a rut and need a break. So I quit unpacking the junk here for the time being at least. I'm attending to the daily chores etc. and leaving boxes for the weekend when we're not at the other house.

I about had a heart attack today. My oldest got the forms to fill out to transfer to the university. Waaaaaaaaaaaaa! My baby is going away next fall. Hopefully it won't be too traumatic for me. He's looking forward to living on campus and to be honest he needs it. Plus school is only about an hour away so I'll see him regularly (like on laundry day LOL).

I've even scrapped some in the last week or so. Gosh I wish I had all my mojo back. It probably will return when I'm less stressed (ha!). Anyway here's what I did:

Home Sweet Home - credits here
Grads - credits here
A Class by Herself - credits here

That's all for me, it's homework time :) TTFN!!

Fell Off the Planet Again

Or so it feels like. My sweet daughter graduated from high school on 6/6 and my brother and sister-in-law came up from Florida for the occasion. I offered our new (albeit empty) house to them to stay in and they accepted. (I'd hate for them to pay for a motel when I have a big rambling house nearly empty for their use.) So the week before they got here I was running back and forth to the house like a crazy person getting things in order. I needed to have dishes, glasses, a coffee pot etc all there so they could cook/drink whatever they wanted.

Graduation went off without a hitch if you don't count the shower in our garage and backed up showers and tubs. Turns out the previous owner(s) decided it would be fun to shove rags and cardboard down the toilet. Yay - NOT. Turns out it was the leak my husband had been expecting. After removing the drywall from the ceiling of the garage and all the insulation he's satisfied all is well. (Now if I could get him to clean up that MESS! Maybe I need to impress upon him how bad all that is for the boat that's stored in said garage. LOL! One can hope.)

I have no graduation layouts yet. I've only scrapped once in over a month and I'll share it here shortly. I've been so busy it isn't funny. Most of my work revolves around tossing junk and wrapping my breakables and keeping the kids in line. I have 90% of my kitchen at the new house and it's mostly put away too! Now if I can remember where I stashed it all I'll be a happy camper!

I feel the need to scrap but I'm so overwhelmed by all we still need to do to be moved that I can't get anything done. Sigh.......... On a happier note I DID scrap a photo I had taken while we went on a walk around the neighborhood with my brother and SIL. She and I had our cameras and were shooting most anything in sight. I think the guys were getting tired of us. I do like my daisy layout here. It was my indulgence yesterday.

Art - credits here

Guess it's bed time and then more packing tomorrow. (will it ever end??????) Have a great rest of the weekend and TTFN!!