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In between getting the books ready for the book drive I've been trying to finish up some projects around here.  From my December daily to the 2009 mini book
 
 I'm using our 2009 calendar and adding the details to the mini.  Like when Chelsea went to California or when Zach got his braces or celebrating our 25th anniversary.

then taking some pictures that represent each month and adhering...

What an awesome break we had with the kids.  I can't believe they are now both back to school, but then again I can't believe it is already 2010!
Yesterday we spent the morning moving Chelsea back to Mount Union and of course that included heading out to breakfast!

  
We had a great break and I'm ready to get back to cleaning the house and working on my crafts and hopefully if my computer...

 

This weekend I worked on simplifying some of my magazines.  Starting with my Christmas magazines.  This year I had stacks of them from last year that I didn't find until it was too close to Christmas and I couldn't use them.

 So I took that stack of magazines to Staples and had them bound together.

 
SIMPLIFY AND ENJOY LIFE

 Movies for 2014
 
Saving Mr. Banks - absolute favoriteThe secret life of Walter Mitty- very goodAmerican Hustle - lovedHer - worst movie I have ever seen, I can't believe its up for awards! 
 
 
 
 

In case you're wondering, or still wanted to send books, there is still time.  Yesterday I started sorting through some of the books I have here and got in touch with the child life specialist at Metro to set up a date to bring them out.  We are tentatively planning on the 15th of this month.
   
After I sorted them, I stamped them or put a label on them, depending on the type of book, that...

Every Thursday is Happiness Day on Zen Habits.
I wish I had a dime for every time I heard someone making a negative comment about me, about others, about themselves. That last is really the worst. I could retire on those dimes.
The thing is, life could be so much better for many people, if they would just spot their negative thinking habits and replace them with positive ones.
Negative thinking,...

and snowing and snowing here!
It looks beautiful on the trees and out in the yard!
 
and the dog loves to play in it

although I think even he is getting tired of it and its only January!

  
SIMPLIFY AND ENJOY LIFE

Today marks 7 years since I quit smoking!  Still hard to believe when even I never saw myself quitting, but today I can't imagine ever going back to smoking!
 
Sunday was Zach's last day of winter break so the kids and I decided to head out to lunch and a movie.  There are so many movies out right now that I want to see and yet I wanted to pick something that both kids would enjoy.  We ended...

Here we go with a new year and getting back to scrapping.  I had a blast creating my layouts with my January Work in Progress kit.
 
This picture is old and kinda fuzzy, but I love it just the same.  It has my Grandmother, father and brother who are no longer with us, my aunt and my cousin who are in California and me in overalls... okay maybe not the overalls.  but everything else I totally...