I've been gone awhile

So I read my last post, and when I wrote that it was summer. It was around 80 degrees. I wasn't back to school yet and life seemed almost refreshing.

Today, although a Friday, is a vacation day. WEAC convention time. Teachers and kids get a four-day weekend. It is about 50 degrees outside. I have a box of tests and projects sitting to my right that are calling to me "correct me, correct me, give me a grade!" I hate it when they talk to me like that. Life is not so laid back and refreshing.

At least not like it was last weekend. What made last weekend so special? I was away at my scrapbooking weekend with my sister and friends. Oh, it was so much fun. So many wonderful, funny women. Such nice and grounded women...women that think much like me, have similar values, are smart and talented and caring. I needed them. I was spending time this summer with my friends either walking or riding my bike five times a week. Since school began, I have hardly seen my exercising buddies. I had to give up exercising at 6 am since I am getting ready for work at that time.

Then there is the scrapping. I hope to scan in pictures and show off some of the pages.




I actually completed 36 pages, but these are my favorites. I couldn't scan them, it seems that my scanner can only do 8.5 by 11 pages, not 12 by 12 pages, so I had to take pictures of my scrapped pictures. Seems a bit odd? Yes, but it was successful.