Vacation

Vacation does not feel like vacation used to feel like; I do not know if this is because I am an adult know and just have not reflected on vacation in a long time or because schedules just get more full and more full. Between work I brought home, Christmas, extended family things, and keeping up with housework I do not feel as if this has been a vacation. I go back to work on Tuesday and my to do list is just as long as it was last Friday. I haven't been lazy or lax--the list just keeps growing (faster then I cross things off).

On a good note, I spent time with some of my in laws today. I love that my kids know their cousins. We don't connect as much as I like but it is still significantly more than what I had as a child and that makes me really really happy. We spent lots of time play and lots of time "helping" Gwen share as that is not her strong suit. Gwen was particularly stingy today and didn't even want her cousins near her brother's toys! One of the cousins is going to spend a couple of days with us and then we will bring her home. I am going to brave coffee in the morning with four kiddos and then we might go look for a game that particular cousin has been wanting.

On a better note, I worked for almost two hours tonight and an hour or so this morning so I managed to make a major dent in my work to do list. All I have left is entering grades into the gradebook (which is not as easy as it sounds because I have to write descriptions of each assignment and correlate each assignment to a standard in writing--I will be so happy when the new gradebooks are up and running in another month), some paperwork, some photocopying, compiling materials, and I need to track down a rubric. Very nice . . . maybe three or so hours left.

So close to having time for scrappy stuff. A project I want to do with wood at various depths is waiting, mulling in my head. I have considered pics and wood and papers . . . now just to pull it all together. Also have a couple of pics to scrap (like a couple hundred) soon, I have been thinking about them. And, my faaaaaaaaaaaaaavorite, a mini album. Picked up papers the other day at the scrap store in Augusta. Can't wait to use the stuff. Went in looking for embellies, came out with $30 in paper (thanks for the gift cards Mom and Grammie).