Just Today!

Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome!

Club Pages

I had Connie pick up my pages from club since I couldn't attend.
The pages are really cute. I have been working on them today and they are time consuming.

During some discussion I have been made aware that we need to address a few items that we frequently use.

Chalks and Chalk Inks. These are not the same items. Chalks usually come in a palette with numerous colors. They are dry. You most usually use a cotton swab or a cotton ball to apply.

Chalk Inks are an ink pad with a special type of ink that drys to a chalky finish. The one we most often use is the Cats Eye Fluid Chalk Ink Pads.

Please specify which one you are referring to when designing for your club pages.


Next month at either club or class we will be using the ink pads to distress our pages.
I would prefer each of you have the Cats Eye Fluid Chalk Ink Pads. We will be using Roan Chestnut and Creamy Brown. I am sure Scrapbooks! has them if not the store in Findlay did have them. You could also order them on line. The Whole Kit and Kaboodle is advertising that they carry them. They should run you 1.99 each. (anymore you are getting ripped off)

You can substitute if there is an inkpad you prefer for distressing instead of the fluid chalks.
The creamy brown is a tan or light brown and the chestnut roan a dark brown.

Green?

Are you doing anything green. I started with my water bottle last summer and have done nothing since. I am interested more in my health and the health of my family. If it helps the earth great also.

So I am going to incorporate more green into my life.

Suggestions? What part do you take to keep things green?

Lyrics from a song by Hilary Weeks

If I Only Had Today"

It seems like I've watched a million sunsets
And stared at a thousand full moons.
Sometimes it feels like I've been here forever
And sometimes it all feels brand new.
I could never count the heartbeats
From the day I was born until now.
But not a single one goes unnoticed
By Him who breathes life in me somehow.
But if there were no more tomorrows
If I knew that I could not stay.
I know how I'd spend every moment
If only I had today.
I'd hold you and listen
And I'd let the dishes sit in the sink.
I'd tell you I loved you over and over
And for once I'd just let the phone ring.
The I'd remind you of forever
And how our love would never change.
If I only had today.
I'd wake up before the sun did
And I'd watch as you quietly sleep.
I'd pray for time to move slowly
Knowing the moment won't keep.
All the gifts that Heaven has given
Every blessing that's come my way.
Wouldn't mean anything without you
So if I only had today.
I'd hold you and listen
I'd memorize every detail of you face.
I'd tell you I loved you over and over
I wouldn't let excuses get in the way.
Then I'd remind you of forever
And how our love would never change.
If I only had today.
There's no time like the present.
Life doesn't come with any guarantees.
The sun will set and time won't wait
So while I have today:
I'll hold you and listen
And I'd let the dishes sit in the sink.
I'll tell you I loved you over and over
And for once I'll just let the phone ring.
The I'll remind you of forever
And how our love would never change.
If I only had today.

Cleaning?

Looking to make the days more manageable. Keeping house up in the quickest easiest way.
How do you keep things up with little ones running around. You know company ready? I refuse to not let them move and that is the only way I know who to do it, so what are you solutions?

By the way, is any body reading this, please help by responding on different days. PLEASE!

Friends

Looking for some quotes to use on our Child's Play pages,
didn't find any to use for the kids, but like these to explore the meanings of. Do you have any friends quotes that you like or love? One of my favorites is Toy Storys "You've got a friend in me", But I have used it many times.
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." -- Euripides (408 B.C.)

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." -- Bernard Meltzer

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.-- Proverbs 24:26

"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." -- Len Wein

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose." -- Tehyi Hsieh

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." -- Mark Twain


Yipee! Bill may be coming home, uhoh that means no club for me tonight.

Improvements

I haven't been involved with the medical field for a few years. I actually retired form EMS when Ky was born so almost 11 years since I have paid much attention. We are relatively healthy and have not had much health related issues except for allergies and colds and such.
Nothing that requires hospitaltion.
Things have changed. Technology has improved. The health care at OIO is outstanding. I felt good enough about their care to leave him last night and I actually slept 9 hours. I know that should be normal, but ask around, if I get 6 hours sleep I feel blessed.

Bill is being well taken care of, and will be coming home by Thursday. We will be homebound for about 2 weeks with home health care coming in for that time period for physical therepay.

Hopefull I will find time to get the sketches figured out and some pages done during that time period.

God is good, he saw us through this operation and blessed us with the ease of it.