Ok, I give up.....

Well, I don't really want to give up on the blogging idea, just postpone it for a while.  I feel that there's just too much going on and I don't have enough time to do blogging justice.  And at this time, I don't have enough of what I want to blog about to offer - crafty projects and ideas of things I'm doing or want to do, or find online that I want to share.  One can only spread oneself so far, and right now I choose to concentrate more on family and home.  We just had two babies born, my mother had a small heart attach and is recovering, and she, my grandma, my sister (from Chicago) with my niece and nephew are all going to be moving in sometime this summer to the house we purchased for my mom & grandma and we're getting things all ready for them.  Plus it's summer fun time!  Lots and lots and lots going on.....

So......bye for now!

I.

Summer has begun!

Yesterday was the last day of school.  Pixie's 2nd grade class had a Pizza & Root Beer float +  watching Tangled party to end the year with a bang!  It was tons of fun.  Felt bad for the other 2nd grade class, but hey I guess we had the cool moms with cool ideas! ;)

The cutest thing - her teacher gave them these school "yearbooks" and they went around signing each other's.  How. Cute. Is. That! 


I brought silverware and stuff to the party and a big hit were these super colorful, fun, large diameter straws that I got from - of all places - JCPenny Home store.  They were just in an "under $5" bin, and cost $1.99 for 50.  (as you can see we used many up.)  The moms were like "where'd you get those, they are so cool".  The kids liked them too. ;)

I remember growing up how fun and rare it was to get one of those twisty straws.  So if I see unusual straws I get some, and the girls love them. We don't use them all the time but sometimes they like to use the skinny coffee stir sticks for their hot chocolate and I always use the jumbo wide ones for our smoothies and milkshakes.  Just adds a fun novelty to your beverage!  So look around at the grocery stores, dollar stores, restaurant supply stores, and even the "home" department stores during the spring/summer time and you might score something fun for really cheap.  Maybe even some Asian stores, since I saw they use them for bubble tea.  I did a quick search on Amazon - my absolute favorite online place to shop - and found these, and these, and these.  And here at Nutsonline.  Not as cost effective as local, but if you absolutely want some and can't find them, and maybe rinse and reuse....and I'm sure the WWW has plenty of other places to find them. 

I keep all sort of staws by my Magic Bullet blender ready for smoothies & shakes!

Photo Freedom

Today I start the Finding Photo Freedom class from Big Picture Classes.  Yay!!!  I've had Stacy Julian's two books, Photo Freedom and The Big Picture for a few years.

I've tried to start implementing her "Library of Memories" system once before but didn't get far.  I've had the Adobe Photoshop Elements with the Organizer for a couple years as well, and have slowly been using it more and more.  But I have yet to get all my photos organized.  Until Now! :)

Family Matters

I've been all out of sorts all week.  (Truth be told, been out of sorts since2 weeks ago when we all had the stomach flu)  This weekend was particularly crazy.  No lazy Memorial Day weekend for us.  Pixie had a 5 day weekend.  We suddenly went shopping for some new stuff, in addition to the other new stuff we'd already been shopping for/ordered in the last couple weeks.  So I feel my house is topsy turvy with all the re-arranging and cleaning out going on.  SIL #2 had her baby boy Sunday morning!  The BBQ SIL #1 hosted that day was a little crazy, they drove at crack of dawn a couple of hours up to where baby was being born then came down to host tons of people at their house.  We drove down there that day, then Monday drove up to meet the new baby.  Then I got word that my mom was in the hospital in Puerto Rico because it looks like she had a small heart attack on Saturday.  She was fine, but went to the Dr. on Monday, they ran some tests and put her in ICU for observation.  Today she had a Cardiac Catheterization and they found no problems.  Yay!  The hardest part for me was having her so far away and how hard it is to get info.  And she was scheduled to fly up to my sister's in Chicago this Saturday, so my sis is scrambling to change everything.  I only got to talk to my mom directly Monday night while she was still in emergency awaiting an ICU bed.  But now the news is good, she might go home tomorrow or Saturday and be cleared to fly to the States in a couple of days. I'm still worried because my mom has medical issues and medicines they had to change to do the procedure, the biggest worry is clots.  But still the fact that her heart looks fine is such a relief!


So I haven't been in much of a crafty mood.  I've sorta been a hermit the past couple days, been doing alot of escape reading.  I had this online class I was starting today and wasn't sure if I could get to it.  But now that so much of the uncertainty has been removed, I feel like I can go ahead.  Details in next post....