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project life: week 10

hey folks,

i'm a little late on posting these and the reason is...i did an extra insert for last week and the extra scanning involved was too much for me to handle at the beginning of the week.

so sad.

but so true.

:p

here's the first page:

and the insert:

and the back of the insert:

just ignore the wonky black/white blank spaces where i've tried to piece everything together...

and the last page:

i really need a 12x12 scanner for this project. or i need to take photos of it like i've been doing in the past but i can't seem to get any good pictures due to the page protectors and the glare.

i took all of the photos with my iphone but the ones for the insert, i did pull out the big boy camera. here's a better look at those:

middle children are quirky :)

hope you're having a great thursday, y'all!

xo,

moon

a layout. project life. and a photo

i haven't done a real layout in months.

katie works better than his stuffed animal in most circumstances. she happened to be home from school that day due to a sore throat.

and here's week 8 of project life...or at least parts of it.

and page two:

here's the bottom photo that i cut off. my tribute to the hunger games movie:

hope you're all enjoying this monday. the kids are out due to snow so we've been having fun outside...

xo,

moon

katie's room

i thought i'd post this morning of my latest renovation. well, it's not really a renovation but more of a redecoration since no walls came down. katie's room used to have off-white walls and the trim was a putty green. not pretty. when i asked her what colors she'd like for her room, she said red, black and white. those are her gymnastics's team colors. not the easiest color combo to work with but i did my best and this is her new room.

here's the view of her window:

and there's charlie. never far away from me...

another one:

her little end table will be painted either black or white and maybe even distressed if i can figure out how to do that technique.

and lastly of her desk and

shelving units:

the paint is this color that i got from lowes:

have a great monday,

moon

finally friday layout: the name series

charlie's hair is growing back nicely for the most part. at least that's what i keep telling myself. it is, after all, just hair and it's one thing that always grows back when you're a youngester. now it just looks like he's got an awful 80's part in the middle like eric estrada did on CHIPS.

it's just hair.

in between watching his hair grow out, i've been trying to work with him on writing his letters. specifically the letters that make up his name. and we were able to get it on paper:

for some reason, i love this milestone. it's a big one for me. so big that i've scrapped it when both girls did it too:

and:

um. did anyone notice the bangs on katie in her photo? see that huge chunk missing? 

yeah.

madeline did the same thing except she took a chunk out of her hair around her right ear. she did that shortly after i took her picture in her layout.

i should switch out charlie's pictures for more recent ones but i don't have any yet. maybe i'll take some of him today...

have a great weekend everyone!

This is me not making the same mistakes like the previous month

I realized in June that I took no pictures of my kids for the entire month of May. None. NONE. How I let that happen, I don't really know. I think it was all the end of the school craziness that took over my mind and the thought of, Hey Moon, you need to take some pictures of the kids, just never fully settled in the forefront.

So in the hopes of not forgetting this month, I took out the old seamless paper and took a few of the kids.

My oldest:

She'll be nine in 19 days. She's been reading the Harry Potter series all summer and is now on book four (The Goblet of Fire). She'll be starting the fourth grade in 12 more days. Shes' the most like me in a lot of ways. The little blemish looking thing on her left cheek, she's had that for almost a year. A spider bite that never went away and are now doing laser treatments for. She's lucky she has us as parents because had she had my parents, there would be no laser treatments. She'd just have to live with the mark on her face for the rest of her life. LIke I said, she's lucky.

My middle:

She just turned seven. She'll be in the second grade. She's my photogenic child.

She makes me smile. She is hands down the sweetest out of the three I have. And because of that, I worry about her the most. I hope that as she gets older, she's able to stick up for herself and not get pushed around.

And my last:

He's two and a half. He'll be three in a little over three months. I'm not sure what to make of him yet. He recently learned to say 'I love you'. He says it a lot after I catch him doing something naughty (I wuv you, Mom.) and he knows he's going to be punished. You can't really blame the kid for trying.

He's into doing everything by himself. Even though he's been potty trained for several months i still have to wipe his butt.

I tell ya, I'll be happy when the butt-wiping phase is over. 

finally friday layout: the school photo edition

The girls got their school photos the other day.

And they're bad. I mean really bad.

I order them so I can have a record of what they looked like in a particular grade and I'm probably going to order these too, but dang. It's killing me to spend any money for them. I think they should pay me to take them. The other part is, I know what my kids really look like, ya know?

Which brings me to my layout-ode to the school pix:

done for write.click.scrapbook

The pictures on the layout were OK school pictures.

But this year, these were Katie's:

Who died, Katie? She looks like she's about to cry. And when she came home after these were taken, she still had some curl left in her hair and she was still wearing the cute brown dress so I decided to take some of her as well...

 

How can this be the same kid? I know, I know. It's not a fair comparison. I get it. These picture people have to go through hundreds of kids in a day and they can't spend more than thirty seconds with each of them. But it didn't stop me from sharing with my Facebook friends about how bad the school photos were this year. And I got some really good responses...

one in particular from my friend Elizabeth, who told me about this site. I want to do this. I want to buy a franchise if they ever decide to open a location in Central KY.

Come on, who's with me?!

Just say no to cheesy digital backdrops...let our kids wear green again on picture day!

:)

and the winner is...

Therese  who said...

I check your site every week to see what layout you do. you always make me smile, your journaling is so honest and cracks me up. TKS!

Congratulations Therese! Please email me at moonko@aol.com with your mailing address and I will let my Scentsy representative mail your warmer and scent to you.

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Some other points of interest if you're needing a little scrapping fix:

• Go check out the American Crafts blog to see a couple of Charlie Says What cards :)
• Go check out the new March gallery at write.click.scrapbook.com

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I think that's it for now. I have a quasi-sick kid at home (my middle).

I swear, if I could have her home with me everyday, I would. I would home school her but that would be wrong and unfair for the other two. Right? Because they would go to public schools. That would be wrong. Yes. That would be wrong, Moon. Shame on you for even thinking that!

But she's just so squeezable...

So this morning we went and got some freshly made donuts. Mmmm. My favorite? The custard filled ones.

Hope everyone has a very good, donut-filled day!

xo,

moon

because i won't have any time tomorrow...

I'm posting early this week because tomorrow (Friday) will be an action filled day at my house and I will most likely forget to post and right now the boy is taking a nap and the girls aren't home yet from school and my house if clean if only for a few hours until the girls get home and the boy wakes up. I only have an hour people, and I plan on making the most of it.

So here are a couple of layouts I did for 2peas:

 

This is one of Charlie's obsession of opening and closing doors. He's replaced this with screwing and unscrewing things. Like knobs on drawers. And caps on mouthwash. And goldfish food. And hermit crab food. Good times. Good times...

The next layout:

 

This one is of Maddie and her former teacher. I love the apple paper which you can find here. The only reason I post a link to this is because it's kinda hard to find since the main paper they show is the back of what I used. Confused? OK. I'll stop.

Speaking of Ms. Mobley, she has Katie this year and Katie is having some problems in the morning of breaking down and not wanting to go. Richard and I are perplexed with her because she never had a problem when she was in Kindergarten. We don't really know what's going on with her. We're going to try getting her in bed earlier as the first step. Any other advice would be helpful...

the middle child

 

My sweet little Katie-bug. She has the most unfortunate luck of being the middle child. For a long time, she was my youngest, but I panicked at the thought of both my girls being in school this year and somehow Jedi-mind-tricked Richard into having just one more...

which resulted in this little gem.

 

Yeah. He sure is a gem and we're all so very happy that he's in our lives. (I joke, I joke. He is a blessing. He is. HE IS. Why are you all looking at me like that?)

So Katie has Charlie (the blessing) as a baby brother and Maddie as an older sister. Now it's not always easy being the younger sister to Maddie because Maddie's older, and faster, and stronger, and smarter and doesn't hide the fact that she is to Katie.

There are days when Katie asks why she isn't as good as Maddie.

  

And I always give her the same answer, "Because she's two years older than you are, honey."

But that never seems to make her feel any better. And I should know. I'm a middle child in the exact same scenario as Kate.  I could never understand the reasoning either until I was much, much older.

But today was different.

 

Ho-ho! She moved up another level in gymnastics. Now she's TWO levels ahead of her big sister and her big sister is less than thrilled. Being the diplomatic mother that I am, I consoled Maddie by telling her that she'll move up a level soon. But for some reason, I don't think she bought that line either.

 

As i was telling my eldest to try harder in practices, my inner thought was screaming, "WAY TO GO, KATE! I'M SO PROUD OF YOU! SEE? THERE IS SOMETHING YOU'RE BETTER AT THAN YOUR BIG SISTER"

 

But that was probably the middle child in me doing all the yelling.

:)

the day after thanksgiving-layout.

here's friday's layout:

  

i used all american crafts-romance line- for this layout.

and here's another one...one of katie:

  

i've been taking a lot of hits on the mommy front, what with charlie refusing to give me kisses and katie telling me i'm lazy...

:)

needless to say, all is good now. charlie has finally decided that he loves me and gives me kisses and katie thought lazy meant sleepy.  

hope everyone has a great weekend!