Whatever Happens

We went on a road trip to Louisiana this weekend. Andrew was in an air show there; we saw parts of it, but my tolerance for wandering around on a sunny, hot flight line is limited. We had some great BBQ and mint iced tea and that's the high point.

I don't know if I've mentioned in the blog that I'm doing a digital scrapbook of the babies' first year. I'll most likely continue it past that, but it will be the whole family after this first year, not just babies. But this weekend I read a bunch of scrapbooking sample pages magazines and I have some really good ideas for spreads. My mother's day present to myself is that I'm going to play around for a day or two with JUST scrapbooking. Since my laptop has gone on the fritz, I have to work on my desktop tucked away in the office. This is a good & bad thing, both. It means I can't do an "on the fly" page while babies are sleeping at night in front of the TV. But it does mean I can go in there and be all to myself messin' around. So that'll be fun. Maybe I'll post one of my cooler layouts. When I'm totally done with the whole thing (in June, after their first birthday!) I will create a totally digital version of the whole thing. I will most likely make a link to an online version of it somewhere when that happens. It's pretty cool so far. If you're not a scrapbooker but have always wanted to be, and take mostly digital photos, if you buy this Hallmark program, it makes it really easy to do. And since we have (well, we will when it gets here) a color laser printer, I can print up the pages and they basically look like magazine pages. Then I put then in laminate sheets & bind them and it's very cool.

As far as mother's day presents go, I got a rose yesterday from the people at the Whataburger where we stopped to get a lame, cold burger (usually Whataburger is much better. Too bad!) But the rose is pretty; the babies were intrigued by it on the road trip. I thought about buying myself something while out dawdling, waiting for Andrew to be done with his air show, but I decided against the items I was lusting over. (Some garnet jewelry... maybe it'll be a later purchase).

So I still don't have a Mother's Day gift for me. I do need to get something, since I think it's an important thing to have. Something cool, something distinctive. Not just candy & flowers.

I know my blog has pretty much turned into a boring everyday log of my things where it used to be cool, insightful posts & creative things. Maybe one day it will be that again. :) I appreciate those of you who aren't actually related to me who still hang out here, although I can't imagine why you want to. :)

Now to play with my croupy baby and the other one. :)