Yes- I am a blog slacker

I am not very good at the blogging thing lately. Had not been feeling well again but hopefully that is all in the past. I want to give my blog an updated look but don't have time to do that right now as the grandkids are here.

Look for a more summery looking blog by Monday (I hope LOL!).

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer.

I am going to be the grandmother of a high school student!!

It is hard to believe that Zachary will graduate from 8th grade tonight. It seems like yesterday that he started kindergarten. As grandparents Steve and I missed a lot of his younger years only seeing him occasionally but now he lives with dad and we see him everyday. Zach is turning into a fine young man and we are very proud of him.

I apologize for the blog absence but I have been busy helping install a pool and trying to get my gardens in order. All of the spring rain we have had has hampered progress of everything. It is raining again today. I do have a couple layouts to share that some of you may not have seen. I will put them in another post.

I'm finally feeling better

It's been a while again...I know. But I think that most of the people that read my blog know why by now. Back on April 24th I had a severe pain which continually got worse. Long story short I ended up at the ER. It was discovered it was my gall bladder. So after a 5 day stay in the hospital I came home after gallbladder surgery. Yesterday was the first day that I had no pain. I spent the day with Christie from the CKMB. She had gotten us tickets to be in the live audience scrapbooking show at QVC. It was a fun experience and a great day.

Today I am getting a manicure and then Steve and I are headed out to buy shrubs and flowers and do some planting this weekend. He will be planting, I will be supervising. LOL!!

I have done no scrapping in the last 2 months or so but have bought all kinds of new goodies so I really need to get something done. After the yard is ready for summer I will get back to it.

I hope everyone has a great Mother's Day!

I'm baaaack!!

Where have I been- you ask? Well, I wish I could say I was off on some tropical island somewhere or at a cabin in the mountains but no. I've just been here at home not doing much. I did fly for the first time in 33 years and went to visit my sister in Georgia. It was nice to have the warm temps and now we are getting some of our own. They are saying it could hit 85 this weekend!

Speaking of flying, Steve doesn't like to fly. He is claustrophobic. Well- he will be taking to the skies this Friday to head to Missouri to his uncle's place. His brothers kept trying to convince him to go so he rolled his eyes and said buy me a ticket. I hit that "buy now" button quicker than he could say "Oh crap- what have I done?" LOL!!

The trip was actually perfect timing because my girlfriend Nanci, who I met through scrapbooking, is driving here from western MD to visit with me for a few days. I will be taking her to Ocean City. She wants to try Mac 'n Manco's pizza that she hears so much about. We have a day of scrapbook shopping planned and a day or 2 of scrapbooking so we will be busy.

Well- I am off to get the usual daily chores done.

Lots of scrapping fun

Last weekend Kit 'N Kaboodles (www.knkclub.com) had a jammie crop. For those of you not into scrapbooking that means you scrap with some girls online for the day- in your jammies. Now that's my kind of day. There were challenges and games and each thing you participated in gained you a point. The person with the most points is the winner of the crop. Guess who won? Yep- you guessed it- me :) There is a prize involved but I don't know what it is yet. When it arrives in the mail I'll show you. So these are the layouts I completed during the crop.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

A little of this, a little of that.

Brian turns 27 today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIAN! We are taking him out to dinner tonight, his choice, so I think we are heading to TGIFriday's.

My girlfriend Janell, who lives in Georgia, had her baby yesterday. Welcome to the world Addison Elaine James. She is a tiny little thing weighing in at 5 lbs. 15 oz. and 18" long.

I am so ready for spring to get here. We will get another taste of it this weekend. Looking to hit 70 degrees by Sunday. Goodbye snow! Don't forget to change your clocks this weekend- one hour ahead.

Just a short post right now as I have a dull headache. Look for another one a bit later today with all the scrappy projects I did last weekend.

Happy Birthday Zachary!

I'm not quite sure how it happened, okay- I know how it happened, but today I am the grandmother of a 14 yr. old. Happy Birthday to Zach! We will be celebrating with him tomorrow night. Tonight he heads to his mom's. This is a picture of Zach and I from his birthday last year.

I have been scrapping a little lately and I am glad. I love just spending hours in the scraproom playing around with all my scrap goodies. Last weekend there were some challenges posted at Kit 'N Kaboodles (www.knkclub.com) by the DT (design team) gals. I was able to complete all of them. I made some cards and 2 hanging wall plaques. I am giving the heart shaped plaque to Steve for our anniversary which is tomorrow. I gave Morgan the one with her name on it and she took it right up to her room and hung it on the doorknob.

Tonight is my monthly scrap get-together so a few gals are coming over for some scrapbooking fun.