Well, so much for trying

2007 is about to end, and I have thought about blogging all year, but you can see how far I got! I'm really going to try to get blogging in the next day or two. Now this could be a New Year's Resolution I can keep!

Things have changed since last January. Oh, boy, have they changed. The beginning of 2007 found my husband in a crisis health situation. I was teaching - love teaching! - but so stressed with working and being DHs caregiver. Even with sitters, it was a rough row to how! So early in May I took a giant step. I took Family Medical Leave and never looked back. This fall I have officially retired after 29 years of teaching. DH is doing better, although still needing 24/7 care. But my stress level is much lower, I'm enjoying being home with him, and I'm starting to adjust to more time for me. I say adjust because after many years of working, caregiving, and being wornout, there wasn't a lot of time for me.

I've recently cleaned out and "organized" the craft room, so maybe 2008 will be my "Year of the Blog" and sharing my creations.

Scrapbooks and Cards

I love to scrapbook. I am currently redoing my son's album. Since he is now 31, the pictures I took of him as a baby are not necessarily how I would have taken photos now that I scrapbook. So I am making a "topic" book instead of chronilogical. I am also using a BayBox so I don't have to worry about not having enough photos to fill a page. I can embellish parts of the page or add quotations and sentiments.

If anyone has used a BayBox I would love to hear from you and see some of your layouts.

Another scrapbook I work on continuously is my Red Hat scrapbook. More about my Red Hatting in a later blog.

This summer I am going to begin working on a scrapbook of my late father's pictures from the 20s, 30s, and 40s, including WWII. I'm looking forward to that. And then I will redo my album which my mother kept until I graduated from high school. Needless to say the pages are tearing, the pictures are falling out, and the colored pictures (the second half the book!) are fading. I must rescue these quickly.

First Blog Post

Well, I had to do it sometime. Don't know much about Bogging - just enough to be dangerous!! We'll see how this goes.