The Ride

page 4... kit used Good Night by Agnesingap Designs

Today I scrapped for the first time really in over a month.  I used to scrap 2 or 3 pages a day.  I would scrap while having coffee in the morning, scrap during the littlest's nap time, and scrap in the night when I couldn't sleep.  But now, the littlest doesn't nap any more which makes me tired enough to sleep at night and forces me to really work for those cups of coffee in the morning.  The coffee isn't just because I love it anymore, it has become necessary.  Today though, I did scrap.  I felt rusty and totally out of practice, at odds with the elements, and couldn't help thinking how weird that was.  What was once simply done without much thought now feels uncoordinated.  By my fourth page, I did feel like it was coming back to me some which is nice because it is one of my quiet hobbies and with school starting soon I'll need something to do between 5:30am and 8ish when the Lil' Miss wakes up.  Anyway, it had me thinking, is it like riding a bike?  Once you can ride can you always ride, once you can scrap can you always scrap... naturally, beautifully?

The sun is setting...

I don't want it to end, summer that is.  It has been one of the best I can remember.  Yeah, I know, my memory isn't all that great and I probably think this every year but for the first time I can remember I am actually clinging to a season.  School supplies are in the store adds, commercials on tv, schedules to be picked up and my mind is screaming NO!  I know lots of parents look forward to school days but me, I dread it.  I wish vacation could last longer and not be ending in just a couple of weeks

Until The Sun Sets

This place, the blog that is,  will really need some fall cleaning when I get back.  I do believe there are cobwebs in the corners and one or two spiders lurking about.  I didn't plan to disappear for the summer but I suppose some of the best plans aren't plans at all and I have disappeared.

We just gathered our kids and have went out, no place in particular, just out.  We loaded up the car with food, grabbed gas for the boat, and left.  This is summer as it should be.  There's no schedules, no deadlines, and at times I even shut off the cell phone.  Do you remember the days before cell phones, when the people you were actually with got your undivided attention, uninterrupted by a ring tone?  I recall it, vaguely, and I'm actively working to restore those days :)

I do miss blogging though.  I miss writing, designing, hearing from those of you that write back but at the same time I'm glad to have this summer, this vacation with just my family having fun together.  So, I suppose, when the summer sun goes down I'll have some cleaning to do but I wouldn't miss these days for the world.

I'm actually hoping for an Indian Summer this year which is strange since Autumn is usually my favorite season.  I guess, I just don't want it to end.  It's probably a good thing that I live where we have all the seasons, without winter I would never get anything done at all.