Hi, My Name is M.J. and I'm a Pack Rat

Well, I didn't drop off the face of the earth. Though there were a few moments during the last week and a half that I wanted to get off the ride and take a rest. I did manage to get something crafted during my week-end away (all 45 miles of it;-), but I haven't taken one picture. I have, however, received lots and lots of boxes of my family's stuff out of storage. This is stuff, mind you, that we have been living without for a little over a year. Some of it I missed daily - like my medium size pot (who knew you would need one of those on an almost daily basis?), and my mixing bowls with matching lids, and some of it I didn't miss at all.

Most of those items belong to my kids. They, like me, are pack rats. Of course my items don't seem as trivial as their "sticker they got from their friend from down the street when they fell off their bike and ..." you get the picture. Throw the sticker away already. It's not in one piece any more and it is stuck to this fake birthday medal you got when you were 5 that I want to throw away too.

Of course if you touch any of my stuff and think, hint or make a move to throw out, you're gonna have to go. I'm sure I have a sticker or two from when I was 17, and or a post it note where my Mom wrote down the score to a game of rummy we were playing as a kid. That's just me - a Pack Rat.

Now as I sit here with 15 minutes to myself, I am running the things planned this week through my mind. It's a bit of a traffic jam in there right now lol. I have re-arranged my craft room to accommodate my larger craft table (rescued from storage yeah), but now to fit in all the boxes of stuff; I have another gathering with the girls this week-end but will only be able to attend on Friday since the 9 year old just turned 10 last week and is having a bowling party on Saturday AND the 1 year old is turning 2 on Saturday and will be having a little shindig at home on Saturday. Oh, and the 10 yr old wants a Skate cake. Not from a store but from me. O.K. Will do. Then the 2 yr old can't not have a cake, so for him I'll be making cupcakes shaped like...I don't know. I'll figure that out when I actually get them baked. What else...started potty training the baby, wait, toddler. That should be fun. Tonight is the Superbowl and I'll be there in front of the TV with wings, and chips n' dip. But first we have an impromptu birthday party at one of my SILs house. She forgot the 10 yr old's birthday and can't make it to the party next Sat so she threw one together. Took the two older kids to a movie (which is part of the reason I have 15 minutes to myself, A+ for her) and then the rest of us will meet at her house (make that an A++ since there won't be any clean up of me). I think it's hilarious - we move closer to them and that's when they forget.

Anywho, you get the gist of the past and the upcoming weeks. I will try to get the pictures taken on the little album I did for my Mom and of some of my favorite pages I've done. Maybe I just need to set my alarm to wake me at 1 in the morning to post here. At least the house will be quite, unless the Mr. is playing a video game, in which case he won't even notice I was up.

Until I come back (just being honest :)

M.J.