tic tac toe

3 in a row....
...of me.
overkill.
maybe.
but i am growing. processing.

summer. busy. almost to a finish.
kids will be in school in no time.

YIKES!
and the temps have been very un-summer like here in WV.

August is filled with a flurry of activity and it isn't even here yet!
Our weekends are pretty much taken up thru at least the first weekend of Oct.

I don't remember my childhood like this...
do you?

oh, well...have fun and enjoy the day while it is today for tomorrow it will be gone!

:D

happy life...happy me :)

ahhh...yes, the wisdom of life.
learning, growing and finally getting "it"

finally hitting my stride @ almost 36, a little late maybe, but allow me to explain...
"The Teen Years"---ummm, yeah, you think you have it, but you don't. you just DON'T!
wouldn't go back to being a teen if you paid me. ;)
"The Twenties"--- aka--the blurried and hurried years.
for me it meant, finishing college, having a baby, being married, raising lil youngsters, losing my one and only sibling in life. But i must say, things did start clickin a little better around say...27-ish, 29-ish.
"The Thirty-somethings"---current state of being. Relishing my life more than ever. Drinking in God's Love in new and fabulous ways. Less selfish. Less concerned with what others think of me.
More peace.
Just. Being. Me.

And i love how this LO came out and came together.
just makes me :)
my initial inspo came from a LO from Stephanie Howell, also a fellow August 31st b-day holder!

tfl, peeps!

:D

i did this one on a whim...
thinking...hmmm, i really do wonder where my life will be in 5 years...?
*where photography will take me?
*how my life and family will be drastically different b/c
a) my oldest will be in college
b) i will have 2 other teenage daughters :O) still @home
*how i will reach yet another decade of life
*what kind of amazing-ness God has in store for me?

yeah, things like that.

have a wonderful Monday!
i woke up with an allergic rxn of some sort today!
and i am not allergic to anything!!!
or so i thought ;)

waiting for the lights to come back on

*no storms
*no, i am not talking about the light in my head ;)

the lights are O.U.T. in the room where all of my scrap supplies are kept.
i can't find anything...
it is in the basement. dark. no natural light.
figures.

i know that i am itching to do something creative.
paper and glue creative.

i think i will use this add-on that i was able to get

i guess i could go out to the garage, get my husband's task light of some sort and search for what i need....
but wouldn't it be better if he just replaced those darn specialty bulbs so i can get to scrappin!!??
*edit* i did take matters into my own hands. i will be scrapping this weekend!!! woo hoo!!! :D

vacation was good.
no pictures, really, to speak of.
i got a picture of the pier that i wanted to take pictures by, but other than that...nil, nada, goose egg in the land of vacation pictures.

see...here is that lovely pier located @ Cherry Grove beach...


can't you see my family perched underneath, tanned skin and smiling faces???
a Tara Whitney -like image, no?
might as well live in fantasy land b/c reality hacked me off!!!
the night i wanted to take pix, the humidity was so high, so dense, so thick that it fogged up every mechanism on my camera and it wouldn't even focus!
some things aren't meant to be!

hopefully by week's end, i will have light.
scrapbook pages just turn out better when they are lit! ;)