A Few More

When I decided to do a layout about Nonna's punch bowl, I asked my mom to tell me something about it. I was thrilled to get it (Aunt Stella gave it to me since I was the oldest great-grandchild). I never heard back from mom, so I did the layout and speculated about the meaning of the punch bowl---perhaps I inherited my love of entertaining from Nonna, blah, blah, blah. Well, mom finally got back to me and said: "Well, I talked to Aunt Marie and neither of us could ever remember the punch bowl being used. It just sat on top of the china cabinet collecting dust. We don't even know where it came from." Sheesh---now I just wove a whole story about the darn thing. I'll have to go back and edit the page and put "NOT" over the journaling! This is exactly why I scrapbook----let's not forget the stories!!!

Recent Layouts

I did this layout for my Not Your Ordinary Book Club. It was an olympic theme---I racked my brain and this is what I came up with.

Update

Hey All,
I hope Steph updates her blog soon, but in the meantime, here's a little peek into how the move went. As you already know, the movers from hell did not deliver Labor Day weekend as promised. They arrived on Tuesday about 1 p.m.---gosh, this can be long, so I'll try to make it short. They refused to take any boxes upstairs. They piled the boxes to the ceiling in the family room and blocked the hallway. You could barely move. They also refused to put together what they had taken apart. They wouldn't take any of the empty boxes with them or break them down for us. What a huge mess! They were just jerks.

I left for Cape Cod on Wednesday, so Steph was left to work alone. She started her job on Thursday, so basically had the weekend. I was so impressed by how much she accomplished. I've worked yesterday and today and have pretty much gotten everything hung. I'm going to start on her scrapbook room tomorrow---I'm not sure I can get the furniture re-assembled by myself, but I'm going to try. Butch and I are going on Saturday morning to finish it up---break down boxes and haul them away.

It looks great. We'll post pictures soon. I'm not sure black was such a good idea---really shows the dust!

My trip to Cape Cod was so much fun. I really thought that I wouldn't have such a good time with all the work hanging over my head, but surprisingly, I didn't think about it very much.

My friends have given me my very first alcohol job. I am the official Bloody Mary Maker! They tell me I make a good one!
The Bohans, bought a condo in Mashpee. Just gorgeous! We shopped everyday---considering I don't like to shop, it was really fun. I had tons of seafood---shared every meal with Pam. We stayed up late and scrapbooked too. Just a great trip all around. Can't wait to go again.

Butch and I leave for Italy in two weeks with Walter and Chris. Busy, busy, busy!

You know there are teenagers in the house when...

You leave the kitchen in perfect order to come home and find salsa dripping down the side of the island and a mess that looks like at least 10 kids made....

Loud music is blaring and seemingly no one is home....

The t.v. has been left on all night....

The house is lit up like a Christmas tree---all day and night....

The laundry has reproduced to mammoth proportions....

You wake up to the sound of the door bell at 12:30 a.m. because they ordered pizza....

Their friends stay for days on end....

Your car is full of back packs and sports bags that don't even belong to "our" kids....

Strawberry Fanta is spilled/stained on your new decorative towels....

Soda cans are randomly placed around the house....

Navigating the bedrooms is like walking through a maze....

They have their friends over to get ready before the "big" game....

Your new duties include running the gang around to any of the following: mall, pool, MBA football, Father Ryan football, Ensworth football, cheerleading practice, friends houses---and picking them up....

Doling out money because their friends "forgot" theirs (did you know that it costs $8.00 these days for a high school football game?)....

Your tweezers, brush, razor and other assorted personal care items disappear....

Here's the evidence---Just a few more days.....

Random Observations

Random Observations

Did you ever notice that when you do something different to your hair, it goes one of two ways? Family and friends will either say nothing at all---which really means they are saying that they don't like it, so it's better to say nothing at all. Or, they'll go on and on about how much they like it shorter, darker, whatever, which really means, it looked really crappy before, so it's about time you changed it!

Backing my Solstice out of a parking spot near a couple of teenage boys was a mistake. Even though I think I look cute in my little red convertible sports car, I could tell by their stares what they were going to say to each other as soon as I pulled away, "That's just plain wrong"!

With the Olympics going on, everyone thinks sports. Last week at bridge, one of my "old lady" friends commented on how tan I was. I mentioned that I had been in our pool more this summer than all the previous 13 years put together. She then asked, "oh, do you swim"? I replied, "well, uhhh, no, I float". That immediately added another 10 lbs.

While visiting my doctor for my annual physical, she reported that I needed to drink more water. (I try, I really do, but when I fall of the water wagon, it's hard to get back on). She kept saying how it would really help with my weight AND my skin---translate---not only are you chubby, your skin is crappy too!

And my favorite: a couple weeks ago, when the whole gang was in town, Elizabeth followed me into my bathroom. I was going to change into my swim suit for the pool. I told her she'd have to leave because I didn't want her to see my big "butsy". She had a quizzical look on her face when she said, "But I WANT to"! I can still entertain kids!