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Ray and Savannah were back at school today (after 3 weeks off). They both have school from 12:15 until 2:45 Tuesdays and Thursdays. I love this time to myself. I was warned by more than just a few people that this would be a sad time for me: sending my youngest off to school. It was not.
Anyway, I made a promise to myself that I would use this time for ME- and not get caught up with chores, grocery shopping, etc. Usually I’m really good about being selfish during this time, but today I knew I’d feel better about scrapbooking if my kitchen was clean and my floors were mopped.

Before I knew it, my kitchen was spotless, including my floors, and I decided to tackle just one more thing: cleaning out the fridge.

One thing led to another, and I found myself cooking up 12 pounds of ground turkey and grating 15 pounds of cheddar cheese so I could move them to my freezer.

Now, my kitchen was a mess again, my fridge was only partly cleaned out and it was 2:45… And thus my day has ended how it began: in a mess.

What would you title this post:

1. And I promised myself I was only going to clean until my CD ended
2. How I earned my blogging time tonight
3. My name is Amy and I AM Nevada’s daughter
4. Why you shouldn’t clean your fridge out before you clean your freezer
5. Why pre-school should be longer than 2 hours and 30 minutes
6. Why my chin might be sore tomorrow

Back to Christmas...

I'm cleaning up a bit today (and getting distracted along the way- that's how I got here) and came upon these great little albums I made for my family for Christmas (Staci- this is how I put my silhouettes to use; I never got around to making the ornaments). I'd wanted to do these and had all the supplies to make them, but kept putting them off. I finally buckled down on Christmas Eve Eve and spent the entire 2 days making them. Damon was so great to allow me that time to finish them- he had no idea what I was even doing. I'm super happy with them. Each child (and Damon, too) has a little book (about 4"x5") that has pictures and "my favorite things" about them.

 

 

 

Proof that I'm cleaning up. This is what my desk looks like- after I started cleaning it up a bit. Yikes.

The greatest surprise of all was that Elli whipped one up for me on Christmas Eve as well (when she asked me what I was doing, I told her I was making something for dad and showed her a bit of what I was doing in Damon's album). Pretty cool.

 

 

 

My favorite page in the book: I was laughing pretty hard. I give Elli all my extra pictures to scrapbook with. I took these pictures with a specific purpose in mind for a scrapbook class I was taking last year- not just to take random pictures because I'm so addicted to photography. I thought it was a funny perspective.

This blogging stuff isn't so bad...