Happy Birthday to me!

Today is my 40th birthday. Can I get a "whoot! whoot!"?! :)

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4-20-07 Photo Hunt: Steps

I searched the photos I had saved on my hard drive already for this week's Photo Hunt theme: Steps. All I could come up with was this photo taken about 7 years ago. It's the side of Woodlawn Manor, the historic site where I got married.

This week’s theme: Steps

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4-13-07 Photo Hunt: Hobby

This is a really BAD photo of me from 2003 at the Great American Scrapbook Convention. I'm pictured with a really nice, talented lady named Katherine Brooks who is the author of several scrapbooking and card making books, and we're holding a couple of cards I had just made in a workshop she taught. Paper crafting is one of my favorite hobbies.

This week’s theme: Hobby

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Paperkins (or "Putting stash to good use")

Anyone who scrapbooks (or who scrapbooked a few years ago) remembers Paperkins. The little paper doll templates that you could trace to make and dress paper dolls. Then they started selling little kits with pre-cut pieces you could modify and place in themed settings, etc. I'm not sure if they are even sold anymore.

Well, I bought several of these a few years back. My daughter loved them and put several together. The other kits joined my growing piles of stash in my closet (garage, basement, floor, etc.).

I decided to pull them out and turn some into cards for the sick children at the Hugs and Hope site. Alexis (now 8 yrs old) caught the fever, and she's putting several together, too. Here's my first. (I'm a little rusty with the glue stick!) Her official name is "Hang in Hilary".

Wheeze!

Ugh! I just cleaned the kids' guinea pig cage. It's been way too long since I/they cleaned it thoroughly, so I had a lot to clean. I have bad allergies, and my throat is itching, my chest is tight, and my eyes are watering and stinging.

But at least the cage is clean, the two little piggies are happy, and my family room is habitable again. LOL!

4-6-07 Photo Hunt: Clean

This week’s theme: Clean

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Do you ever feel like there’s not enough time for extra-curricular stuff?

I have four kids, but my stepsons are teenagers: one is away at college and the other is staying with his grandmother. My youngest two are 6 and 8, and they require a lot of my attention (is this the norm?).

I try to do some extra stuff: hobbies (scrapbooking and knitting for example), PTA (I built our first website and setup and maintain the Yahoo group), and sending happy mail to sick kids. I work full time at a job that is sometimes crazily busy and at other times not-so-much.

I just don’t seem to have time for it all. My house…well, I thought I would be a better housekeeper once we owned our own, or once the kids got old enough to help, or once…heck, it’s just not happening. What’s a person to do?

Advice welcome! :)