Just Another Scrapper Mom: (Lack of) Summer Scrapping

In some ways it feels like summer vacation just started, and in others I am counting down to back-to-school. We are in week four of summer break here and, while we claim not to be as busy this summer as we were last, I still feel like we are doing an awful lot of running around.

The boys and I are gearing up for an extra-long weekend trip to my parents' house. Hubby is running low on vacation time (and hanging on to some just in case a can't-pass-it-up Disney deal comes along!), so he will be staying home with the four-legged children. He'll be happy to leave the windows open, even though the forecast is calling for 90 degree temps. The Battle of the A/C is a common one in our house, as I live with one of the few men in this country that is not bothered by heat, and thinks it is perfectly acceptable for the temperature inside the house to reach the mid-80's. I do not find this acceptable (if we didn't have central air, that would be another story). But I digress...

I actually went three weeks without doing a single scrapbook page. For me, this is a long time. I finally managed to get some pages done in the past week, on the days that we didn't have the windows open and the humidity pouring in. I refuse to scrapbook when it's humid, as my paper gets warped and it's a generally unpleasant experience.

Anyway, I feel better that I got some pages done. When I've had any length of a break from scrapbooking, the first page back always feels like a "fix." I don't care what it looks like, I just revel in the fact that I got one done. Of course, since I'm leaving town, this latest burst of scrapping energy will be short-lived, and I'll have to get myself back into after I get back.

In the mean time, here are my latest pages, most of them for my youngest son's album.