A blog a day in May ~ Tomato Soup

That's what's for lunch today. Good ol', super-plain, out-of-a-can, Campbell's Condensed Tomato Soup. I know. boring. But it's only 90 calories per serving so I can have the whole can if it's with not much else. I mean, I love to cook and blend ingredients and spices, but not my tomato soup. And that's my nugget of information today.

What?

I can't write a 500 word blog every day, I'd lose ya. I'm sure I'll still find a way to overtalk this one.

Oh! made with milk. The tomato soup, that is.

Here's a story. One of the very first things I made on my own was - you guessed it - a can of tomato soup. Mom watched as I read each step in the directions, made it slowly and perfectly, poured it into a bowl for myself, tasted and promptly spit it out. I was so upset that I cried for what I remember was forever. It tasted terrible. Then Mom clued me in to the milk instead of water and my culinary confidence was restored. 

Today's lunch: pic of a phone pic. Emailed photo taking too long!

Made with milk.

And serve it with Ritz crackers and an ice cold glass of milk. I reached in today to grab some Ritz and the box was *gasp* empty!! So today, it's Cheez-Its. Yum.

And that's all I have to say about that.

Project Scraproom Overhaul: Corner is complete. Clean! I even started on my desk, here, next to me. 

What's different? No unfinished layout!

Do you see something else different here?

I got a digi and a paper layout done, both yesterday! (My Facebook status says: Finished both a digi layout and a paper layout in one day. Universes must be colliding somewhere.) The digi was a speed scrap for Faith-Sisters and the paper was a page I started about 7 weeks ago inspired by a ScrapStreet magazine call - gadgets. It's called I Like Skype. Will photo and post later. 

A blog a day in May ~ Hey, I made it back!

Okay, even I didn't think I'd write two days in a row. And this is live writing - not pre-scheduled. AND I've even got a list of things to blog about in days to come.

Wait, is that what scheduled means? Pre-scheduled? I don't know, look it up.

So, after getting home from MOPs (Moms of Preschoolers) today - never heard of it? don't have one? Google it - if you're a mom, you need it!

Anyway, today Miss B (names and faces have been changed to secure identity) spoke to us mainly about encouraging following through at home with what happens in church. Ah, Miss B. If you're a @GraceOC'r, and if you know her as I do, you'll agree that she is a God-sent angel walking this earth, if there is such a thing. Although, she'd deny it and give it back to God, she's good at that.

Anyhoo, I'll try to add some references at the end, but on my slow-drive home, it dawned on me that there is one thing that I am absolutely, positively sure of that is about me. I am a kid person. That's it. That's today's revelation, apparently. I've always had kids in my life, from babysitting at a young age, to co-coaching at age 13, to running a youth gymnastics program at a local school near my college, to be on a cognitive psychology lab team having to do with - yes, you guessed it - kids. Teaching preschool out of college, coaching again and again... and ultimately home with my own.

I remember when my now ten-year-old nephew was born, I flew down to take care of him for a week while his mom went back to finish school. Man, I used to just sit and stare at that tiny jelly bean while he was sleeping and sound. I find peace in children.

4/18/2011 -- hike lookout overlooking the Hudson

Today I was visiting with my mom in the one-year-old room during MOPs and a few were teary so I let myself in, plopped on the floor and got to playing. Phones, piggy banks, a big ball. Even got a known-crier cutie girl to stop crying and talk to me. It's like a magic. God has built me with some kind of kid-magic, I guess.

Let's pause here for a moment. Two of my own is perfect for me. For some reason I have a ton more patience with others' kids than I do with my own and I'm fully aware of my limits. So no, there will not be anymore kids added to our family. Maybe just dogs.

So while I'm not entirely sure what I want to do with my life, I know it will have something to do with kids. Hoping from here, God will lead me.

Rick Warren 

Raising children is one of God's primary ways to teach you unselfishness.

A few at-home references: 

The Jesus Storybook Bible

Amber Sky Records

My First Look << and by the way, the creature from this site inspired the walls in our very own Pre-K Promiseland walls!


Project Scraproom Overhaul: today is get that floor corner cleaned up, as seen in the post below this one, photo #3. 'after' pic coming in a few!

A blog a day in May ~ In the beginning

I think this is my last-ditch effort at a blog. I'm terrible at blogging and quite frankly, I'm tired of apologizing every time I do get to the blog. Honestly, with so much inspirationality (no, it's not a word, look it up) around me, I usually feel like I have nothing to contribute to the world of blogging. Hmmm, maybe I'll point you in those directions... So for each day in May I'll try to post something - anything - to see if this blog can be saved. Yes, I know it's May 2nd so you may say I'm a day late; I can say 'no I'm not!' because what you don't know is I wanted to do this in April so I'm actually a month and a day late. *big grin*


I'm not going to stick to blogging about scrapbooking because honestly, I don't think I even remember how to do that anymore. I still think of layouts to create as I snap pictures, but rarely are my hands in paper. This layout on my desk I started over 6 weeks ago. I've only completed eleven (yes 11) layouts so far this year - I kid you not - and no digitals. And I am totally and completely in love with exactly zero of them. They always do look better on paper than posted on the net; but still, I love them not. 

The other thing I'm working on is Project Scraproom Overhaul. I don't need to add much, I just need to complete the organizing I started when we moved in recently a year ago. the only thing I foresee buying is a few more Cropper Hopper vertical paper holders for some theme-y stuff (boy, girl, wedding, dog) on the floor. I've got a good start, but lately this room is a dumping spot. Right now I only use it once a week for Sunday school prep. Oh, and last month I glue-dotted an orange flower to a black headband for family fun night aka JUMP ZONE at Grace. I do want to use the room for scrapbooking again. If I can snap 124 pictures of my kids in 2 days, mostly having to do with dirt piles and building stuff, I certainly can find an hour or two to scrap some. I mean, look! Here I look more like a hoarder than a scrapbooker. Although I've heard, in some circles, those two are synonymous. (=


So... here we go. Bets on whether or not I'll follow through? Yeah, I'm with you.