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The All Consuming Scrapbook!
Now that I’m home and I don’t have to work all day, I’m buckling down and getting some really important things done. Ha! Like putting together a baby scrapbook! I am having so much fun, it’s probably wrong. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this myself! I don’t need to buy a baby book, I can make my own! Somebody said that in the comments or maybe it was my sister-in-law. I don’t know, but you are brilliant. My happy little brain thanks you from the bottom of my happy heart. And the baby thanks you too because she is kicking away as usual. (Man is she kicking. Sometimes it feels like I have a funny bone in my belly because she knocks some kind of nerve in there and hiieeeeyaaaaaa! she suddenly has all of my attention. )
Anyway, this scrapbook is making me so happy it’s silly. I spent almost all of yesterday putting it together and I still have a lot more to go before I’m up to the present. Thanks to my blog, I have a pretty good daily record of big events. I’m including my illustrations too as well as belly shots and pretty cards that people have given me. I’m writing it in the first person to my daughter. I hope she likes it. Toby almost got teary eyed when he saw what I was doing. He never had anything like this from when he was little because well… it’s a long story. But let’s just say his mom lost a lot of things over the years. So it’s coming together nicely and every day when I get home from baby sitting it’s all I can do to force myself to take a shower and get my chores done first, before I start working away. I love it when a project consumes me like this.
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Daily Desktop
Daily Desktop
I don’t know if anybody’s noticed but I’ve been uploading desktop pictures every day and putting a link right over there on the right, underneath the spy cam. Somedays I can’t get to my computer at the right time. But it’s my goal to upload a shot of the beach every day. It’s my idea that it might be fun for somebody stuck in cube-land (or maybe Wisconsin) to have a picture of the beach to look at every day. (Not that I’m knocking Wisconsin, if you want to trade pictures of wheat fields that change color everyday, I’d be into that.)
The beach changes every day and I want to share that with you! Plus, it’ll be incentive to get me outside every morning for my morning walk. So download if you choose. I’m not promising great shots every day. Some days might be complete duds (like fog on fog or I just plain suck at photography that day) and somedays I might upload later than others (like today because I’m baby sitting nights again and I don’t get home until 8:30 in the morning) but it seems like a fun idea for now. Who knows, when the baby gets here you might end up downloading shots of baby toes. Hmmm…probably only my mom would want that on her desktop.
Anyway, I just wanted to share.
I also want to say thanks a gazillion for all the helpful baby stuff advice! Wow! I’ve gleaned several important things already. I’m definitely going to look into purchasing that book Baby Bargains (and look they have a blog too!) and I’m not going to stress out so much about trying to get everything before hand. I feel a lot better about everything. Thank you!
