I laughed when I read the title of my last post. "MIA". Well, ditto for this past month. I just haven't taken the time to post. I haven't planned meals. I haven't gotten groceries on a regular schedule. blah...
But, you know what? We survived!
It's been a busy June for sure. Jake went on a school trip to Washtington DC, had his first week of 8th grade football camp, started lifting weights at school 3 mornings a week at 6am. Now for July...my laptop crashed (fun, fun), I'm taking on more responsibilities at work, and we just bought a new freezer to fill up with food.
I was almost physically sick when my laptop crashed. See, I have OVER 23,000 pictures organized in my Adobe Photoshop Elements. Correction - I HAD over 23,000 pics organized. Thankfully a couple weeks before the crash, I registered with Carbonite.com and got everything backed up. It backed up my pictures, but they are no longer organized and tagged in Photoshop. Ugh... So, once the laptop is back from HP getting the recall problem fixed, I get to re-organize the pictures. How fun, huh?!?!? Oh well, I just thank God that the pics didn't just completely disappear.
I'm being forced to be creative now, though. With my laptop out of commission, I can't print off pics to prepare for my July crop with the church girls. So, I've begun going through OLD pictures. Today I cleaned out about 4 or 5 of those old "sticky" albums from my childhood. Oh what funny things I saw in there. The laughs ranged from coke-bottle glasses to braces to first-thing-in-the-morning pics taken of me by my mom when I was about 13 or 14. I also found those prom pics with the boy I thought I'd love "forever", as well as TONS of pics of me in my ever-fashionable band uniform.
There's no telling what kind of scrapbook layouts I'll come up with before my July crop. All I know is that the girls at the crop will definitely meet their laughing quota that day!
