All that free time they said I would have...

All last year and this summer people asked me what I would do with my days when school started and all the kids were at school all day long...

I told them I was just going to wait and see what time I had extra throughout the day.

What I've realized is that my day is more free for scheduling things.  I don't have to schedule around the mid-day pick up that I had done for the last four years between two kids going through pre-k and kindergarten.

What I've also realized is that even though my day is more free for scheduling things- I am just as busy or more busy than I was last year at this time.  I find myself at the school more volunteering...  taking my time at the store instead of rushing through shopping... and trying to increase my exercise time and intensity.

The laundry pile is still always big,  the bathrooms are still always there needing to be cleaned,  and the kitchen floor is still almost always in need of mopping...

I haven't blogged more often like I thought I would.
I haven't baked homemade bread on a regular basis.
I haven't dived into digi scrapping with all of my "free-time"
I haven't cleaned out closets and drawers and organized the whole house...

Those things will come in time, but right now I'm finding myself plenty busy. :)

This month will continue the busy trend.  Yesterday and Today is General Conference.  Today is Rich and I's Anniversary, the rest of this month holds campouts, birthday parties, end of the term tests, new clarinet and tuba lessons, a buisness trip, a family vacation, dentist and dr routine appointments (not to mention the inevitable non routine apt's that I'm sure will get scheduled) Fall festival parties at school and at church, and Halloween to end the month.

I'm going to try and blog more often.  I miss it when I don't get on here and blog and record what we are doing as a family...

Storm Damage

digital scrapbooking

I decided to open up photoshop elements and work on some digital scrapbooking again... I go in spurts so here are a few pages...

Family Blog

Just a little note for those that are interested in seeing more family pictures...

I'm posting most of the family pictures and family journaling over at the Family Blog- The Newton's

I've put up quite a few in the last few weeks- trying to catch up on what's going on at our house. :)

A problem

I'm becoming increasingly aware that I have a problem.

It's becoming increasingly bigger and I feel that I have to come clean and confess to it.

I'm not very good at returning items to others.

In cleaning up the house and trying to tidy it up before Rich comes home at midnight from his latest trip, I've found the following list of items that are on my counters, and in bags in the car and stashed in places where I'd "remember" them... and I keep forgetting about.

Currently the list of items I currently am holding for others is as follows:

Platter
Plastic bowl
Wooden Serving Spoon
Plastic Serving Spoon
Quart size canning jar
Little birthday gift that was left here on accident
Book from one friend
Book from another friend
Wrench
Two little magnets that belong in a book I sold to the neighbor at our yard sale last saturday... I found them 5 minutes after she bought it, and still haven't taken it over.

I'm resolving to return all the items within the next week...

I made a good start this morning by returning the kindergarten graduation pictures that have been on the desk for a month that I never intended to keep... and I received a letter through the school yesterday that I needed to pay up, or return it... whoops!

I can only hope that I can continue that trend tomorrow and return an item to keep the momentum going!