the moments in between

busy busy...

....and with christmas creeping up, i can only imagine it will get worse.

in the past couple weeks, alex was sick, ben was sick, i was sick, we painted the living room, we rented a dumpster and cleared a LOT of stuff out of the basement and garage, and we went out of town for thanksgiving.

whew.  still feeling like i'm in catch up mode...

i made this frame a couple weeks back for becca's jdrf fundraiser .. it's up on ebay now if you want to give it a home and help contribute to a great cause. =)

dude.

if you aren't a member over at scrapsupply, go register.  once they hit 5000 members (and they're only 4 away!!), they're having a  big sale. =)  and i can't wait!!  i have a cart loaded up over there with some things that i (ahem) need.

that's what it's all about (yeehaw)

becca's crop for a cause.  just wow.  so amazing to see what a great event becca pulled together.  so great to sit at a table w/ some of the wonderful friends i've made in this hobby and just PLAY.  we worked on our kit for a cure albums, we shopped, we giggled, and there was even some singing and dancing.  i came home w/ goodies from the stores that were there, from my goodie bag, door prizes, silent auctions....  funfunfun.  poor gabby had to leave some of her goodies here because they wouldn't all fit in her suitcase..  need to get those packed up and mailed ASAP.  there's something wonderful about being in a gym filled with people all doing something they love - and supporting a great cause in the process.

all in all an awesome weekend.  it was so good to have gabby here...  wish she had been able to stay longer.  the boys LOVED her.  pics to come soon, but here's one of my tablemates..  love these girls.  swiped this from becky novacek - thanks becky!! =)

finally. those good things. =)

*white chocolate kitkats.  mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

*new shoes

*new purse (with my new think pink button) from sea breeze studio

*a new plan for homeschooling - we bought the moving beyond the page curriculum.  love it.  we've been working on animal habitats, and today we made one for a salamander.

*project runway, via netflix

*cards magazine

*and look who made those thanksgiving cards! ;)

*actual looking at the camera and smiling pictures.  those are rare.  love me some candids, but every now and then i try to get them to LOOK.  lol.  may have to try for a better smile on ben.

*aaaaaaaaaaaaand gabby comes to town tomorrow for becca's jdrf fundraiser crop!!! SO can't wait.  to hang w/ gabs and for the crop.  becca has worked SO hard to pull this together, it's going to be awesome to see it happen.  i need to get to work on my item for her silent auction..  at the way my to do list is acting, i may be working on it AT the crop.  heeeeeeeeee!!!!

*stef has had some good news lately..  hoping today's surgery went smoothly and that there are many good things in her future.

*i ended up w/ a pic on the front page of our local paper after i was interviewed after coming out of my polling place on thurs.  eeeeeeeeek. kinda cool!!

*ETA - added links for the purse and the shoes.  happy shopping. ;)

finding some calm.

which, unfortunately, involved making some hard decisions.  this weekend i stepped down from my spot on the scrapologie design team.  i'll definitely miss the kits and the girls on the team...  but there are only so many hours in the day.  and only so many of them can be spent scrapbooking.  sigh.  i'm also taking a short leave of absence from imagination project while things settle down around here...  soooooo glad that they are so awsome and flexible.  now i'm no longer hyperventilating when i look at my calendar, so i know i've made the right decision.

we met w/ alex's psychologist today, and we're feeling like we're on the right track there..  so that is a relief as well...

spent sunday down in lincoln hanging with stef .. 6 hours of talking about this and that.  it's good to see her laughing, to talk about random things that have nothing to do w/ cancer, and to mock things at all cancer related (phantom boobs!).  getting lost on the way home?  not so cool.  matthew is threatening to get me a gps gizmo for christmas.  i mean, how many freaking times have i been to her house.  lalala.  yeah. 

and, i still owe a good things post, but i have been too lazy to take pics of such good things, so you'll have to wait.

busy day tomorrow..  preschool, voting, post office, zoo trip...  need to sneak in some scrapping and cleaning, too.  gabby hits town for the big super-rific crop event on friday night...  so much to do before then..

balance...

...is good.  feeling a little out of balance lately.  needing to look at the have to dos and the want to dos and figure out what has to give.  i could stand to do some major house cleaning, too.  that always evens my head out.

lunched at the cheesecake factory w/ some of the bagels today.  going to lincoln to hang w/ stef this weekend.  the boys have a bday party tomorrow.  good things all around.  have some more good things i need to post about.  watch for that this weekend. =)

(and, pssssssst, the LO above is from the nov scrapologie kit, it debuted today =)