Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Busy with teaching, and back with scrapbook pages

Hello! And sigh. This has been a busy year. As a teacher, I've moved from distance learning to hybrid, and now we've moved back to distance learning. I thought distance learning was busy, but hybrid...oof! I am grateful to have had the opportunity to get to know my students face to face, albeit masked.

In the meantime, I visited my parents in Maine, I finished tucking my garden in for the winter, I kept reading, and I kept scrapbooking. Here are some of my pages for Simple Scrapper:



This was a two-page pocket layout about my last-year's trip to Maine. Not gonna lie, looking through the Project Life Cards and pulling a bunch to use gave me joy. 


This next one is a layout celebrating my son's theater experience last year in Ragtime, a magnificent production. He played a few roles, including JP Morgan. He has a knack for getting cast as terrible people. Here are the separate pages:


Photo on the left a professional photo by Any Angle Photography.


Next a couple pages for November. Here is one commemorating the boys' game night with dad. Since the boys both have jobs now, it's a rare night that all of us are home.


Finally, a Thanksgiving layout. Last year was untraditional--I visited my parents in Maine while my husband took my boys to Buca's. I enjoyed reflecting on this special time with the ones I love in new ways, and it's important I remember that this year as well.

And those were some of the (few) pages I've made these past couple months! I am working on a cross-stitch project I will post when done, and I am getting to work on finishing my son's school years album, since he's a senior. *Gulp*

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving!

The boys let us sleep in until 6 this morning, so I already have something to be thankful for.

My cold seems to be (slowly) abating.

The coffee is brewing. The laundry is going. Pokemon is on TV. It's above zero outside. Life is good.

Hope all is well with you too. And a quick note: if you want to get a quick start on holiday shopping without even stepping outside at 3 A.M. tomorrow morning, check out the AMAZING deals at Ella this weekend: Ella's Amazing Thanksgiving weekend deals. They are good from Wednesday, Novermber 24, through Saturday, November 27. I'm looking at the design bundle for someone (can't say who!), and being an English teacher, I'm of course partial to the words bundle too. Truthfully? I own them all. They are great. Enjoy!

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

What do you plan to do?

Our Thanksgiving sermons at my church are always terrific. I cry a little, I smile a lot, and I laugh in them. Tonight our pastor ended with this poem, which to me is almost a manifesto for scrapbooking. (Bold print is mine.) Enjoy.

The Summer Day

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean--
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down,
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?


~ Mary Oliver ~
(New and Selected Poems, Volume I)