we stayed home, and didn't go to church. Levi, and both Gulianna and Isabella have been sick since a couple days before Valentine's...and I've only been slightly sick, until this morning. It has been a long week of sucking snot with a nose syringe from their little noses, can you really suck out someone's brain, because it sure seems like it! Poor girls. Now they both have bad coughs. Gulianna coughed all night. Off and on I would give her a cough drop. Then I remembered the 'spoonful of honey' remedy...I asked Levi if we had any honey, and he thought I was calling him honey...yeah, he was still sleeping. So I went downstairs to see if we had any, and we had a big container of honey that was rock hard. Must have gotten frozen from all the moves we had. So she continued to cough, and then finally fell asleep.
I woke up sick. Now I feel like crap. Isabella breathed and coughed on me all night. Levi made breakfast for us, although we didn't have any more potatoes, so he made fried okra...nasty. yes I tried it. He went to the store last night, why didn't he just buy more potatoes if he knew we were out? To torture me with fried okra :)
The girls watched cartoons...Mickey Mouse 'Cubhouse', Gulianna doesn't say her 'L's only on certain words. I watched a couple recorded shows, then fell asleep. I never take naps. I hate naps. They are not for me. And when I do...they just make me grouchy. Everytime. I just feel like sleeping is for night time, and there is always something that I could be doing. For me it's a waste of time. And yes, I get mad if Levi takes a nap, because he could be doing something other than sleeping. It doesn't happen very often though.
So I wake up grouchy and then hear that the girls are upstairs having a free for all in my scrapbooking stuff. I just have boxes, and boxes sitting upstairs in a room, and in the open room as well. I was planning on setting it up, but then I stopped because, I would just have to pack it up in a couple months. And when I scrapbook, I make a huge mess. Plus I still have a garage full of scrapbooking stuff...mostly all the store, but my personal stuff is mixed with in...that's another thing. Even if I were to scrapbook, I couldn't unless it was all out. Every bit of it. Even if I'm not going to use it all...I have to have options and choices. I've always been that way.
Reminds me of when we used to get together and scrapbook, or go to a crop at a store, and we would be the ones bringing our whole rooms because we didn't want to leave anything behind. And then we would scrapbook one page, if we were lucky. I miss those days.
So after Levi got them out of my stuff...I closed the door in what was going to be my scrapbooking room, and started going through the misc. bags of things. Then I found a container that had some catalogs from the scrapbooking companies I would order from. I looked through some. Some were really old. Like 2005. But I remember all the product. I loved ordering and picking the cutest stuff. I threw them away. Then I came to a pile of old, and I mean really old unfinished scrapbook pages. It was the stack that I have gone through over and over...and I still can't seem to finish them. Some are still cute, and then some are so cheesy, I want to throw away, but I won't. I will finish them.
Then the next section of stuff was magazine cutouts. I haven't done this for a long time!
I used to subscribe to just about all the scrapbook magazines...{now I don't even have a single subscription!}and then after a year or so, I would go through them and cut out my favorite layouts and articles, and then I gluestick them onto plain white cardstock, and organize them into categories. This was a huge stack that never got into the binder. So I went through it...and minimized it to about half. I loved looking back at all the old layouts that I liked so much, some of them were too old so I through out but then some were still old and I still liked them! And I saved some of my favorite advertisements, like Making Memories and Heidi Swapp. Just brings back so many memories of product, what was in, what music I was listening to and who's house we were scrapbooking at.
I liked looking through all the articles of Heidi that I saved...all her older scrapbook pages...not a whole lot of product, but always new techniques, and the focus is always on her pictures and the memories, and being creative and true to her style. I love her and her work, she is very genuine and just fun to be around.
I can't wait till I have gone through all of our misc. stuff that just got shoved in boxes and bags. And when I can set up everything again in my own scrapbook room. We thought that we were going to move to Moroni...yes very far away, but the home sold...and so we are still looking. Hopefully something will come up soon!
