{me}anderings . . .

back to school . . .

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yep.  already.  we start a little early in wilson county.  i'm complaining a bit now.  but i'll be doing the happy dance when we have our two week fall break in october.  guess you can tell from g's back to school pics that he's not complaining one little bit about school starting.  he was ready to go.  loves the social interaction.  i did my best to keep him busy this summer but some days were still just too lazy for my little guy.  :D

speaking of wilson county . . . it's busting at the seams.  this is obvious to me every time i pass #!*&*%$$^(*& providence place . . . grrrrrrrrr . . . that's all i have to say about that.  the phenomenal growth rate became much more evident today when i went to all my schools to see how many of my (esl) kids have shown up so far.  i've never had more than 30.  the max the state allows is 50.  so far i've found 46.  whew!!!  looks like i have a busy year ahead!!!  :D

so sherri tells me it has now been 10 days since my last post.  oops!  i will try to do better now that we're to school . . . back in a routine.  so what scrapping have i accomplished in the last 10 days?  let's see . . .

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the tortilla soup recipe can be found here if i haven't given it to you before.  :D

and i'll be posting the rest of my mini-album in my twopeas gallery tomorrow if you want a closer look.  :D

hope you all are enjoying the remainder of your summer.  and a friendly reminder . . . if you live in wilson county kids start back tomorrow!  :D

weekly post . . .

my scrappy productivity is about to come to an end.  school starts wednesday.  yep.  you heard that right.  wednesday.  i've been in denial.  now i'm depressed.  oh well.  bleh.  :P

on a happy note.  ST emails went out this evening.  i got 3 picked up.  cool renee is quite pleased as she pulled a two outta three again.  jack's getting pubbed again and she actually took the pic for one of the other los so we're thinking she might actually get her name in the credits as the photographer.  did i say she was cool?  yep.  cool renee.  who needs a rabbit's foot?  not me.  i've got cool renee.  :D

so here's the goods . . . the top two are from my july poppy ink kit . . . and the second two are dt assignments at scrap it! . . . :D

have a great weekend all!  :D

reporting in . . .

still too lazy to upload my fun summer pics . . . but i've been a scrapping fool since we got back from vacation and the new layouts are backing up so i thought i'd share those with you . . . :D

these two are actually layouts of pics from our recent florida trip . . .

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here are a couple fall ones i did earlier in the week . . .

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and a fun one of a mess i helped make at my friend carrie's house this spring (please excuse the wonky scan) . . .

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big news today . . . g actually did some serious business in the potty for the first time this morning . . . AND he was making some major attempts at swimming in the pool this afternoon . . . go G go!!!  :D

catch up . . .

apparently summer and blogging do not mix in my world . . . i become such a slacker when school gets out . . . :D

i DID get invited to a cool 4th of July party . . . but i'm too lazy to get the photo cds out right now, so that post will have to wait.  thanks for the invite sherri.  :D

florida was fabulous fun . . . we actually got to go crabbing for mommy's blue crab dinner this time . . . i gave g surf lessons (i know you're laughing.  totally staged for scrapping purposes i assure you.  i have no surfing skills for those who don't know me) . . . we got to camp out on my brother's new property . . . lots of fun times . . . but again, i am too lazy to get out the photo cds this morning.  see . . . i'm giving you all something to look forward to . . . :D

supposed to go workout with carrie at the ymca today.  so NOT looking forward to that.  yea.  carrie's my local friend who doesn't blog.  :D

nothing much else to report.  summer and scrapping don't seem to mesh too well either.  it's already july 10th and i only have two los done this month.  oh well . . . maybe i'll catch up now that summer jobs and vacationing are done . . . :D