Anniversary - Elaine back to school - Scrapbooking

Our anniversary was Monday (6 years married). It was also 'meet the teacher night' at Elaine's school. For my Anniversary gift to Jimmy, I bought him a large shelf for the kitchen. I hope that it helps him keep the kitchen organized and counters clear. Now there is a place for the toaster oven (off of our counters) and a place for all the water bottles and kids' cereals. I looked up the shelf online at the Lowe's website, so I'd be able to measure and find a shelf that fit into the space we had to work with. I'm glad I did. We really are getting a lot of storage out of this nook in the kitchen now!

After putting the shelf together, we went and dropped off the school supplies Hope and Scott got for Elaine and met Elaine's new teacher, Ms. Monroe. Ms. Monroe looks about my age and has blonde dreadlocks. I think I recognize her from on campus (her degree IS from UNT), but I can't remember which class we might have took together.

We have at least one mouse in my office. I've only seen one (running quickly). They come into the trailers, from the field near our house, to escape the summer heat. I found droppings on some of my sewing fabric! I don't want the fabric to go to waste. :(
So after meet the teacher night, Jim took me to BigLots. I got three rubbermaid-looking storage containers to put my fabric and sewing projects into, to mouse-proof them from droppings and such. We also got some new tupperware-like containers.
Then Jim took me out to Texas Land and Cattle (a Texas-themed steak house that feels kinda like Steak and Ale). Dinner was great. Some time in the relatively near future, I'm gonna get a good amount of photos developed for scrapbooking, as Jim's present to me.

They cut my hours at work last week down to 44 hours. I was off from work this Sunday for church and on Monday for our wedding Anniversary. So this week I'm only getting 42 hours at work. (For the last 3 months I was getting a minimum of 60 hours.) With all that said, I have mixed feelings about being home more. I've had time to start cleaning my office up. It's nice to goof off with Allan while Elaine's at school. Today we cut up a watermelon together (he helped eat what was left on the rinds). I've even got a few simple scrapbooking pages done! On the other hand, the additional income was nice to be able to count on. I don't know if me working less hours is gonna be the trend from now on or not. There are like 7 employees at work now, so they have a lot of people to juggle around. I'm still the most trained and can be given projects that noone else can do. I'm the only employee right now that can fly solo on the register and fitting shoes. The rest of the ladies need some supervision ~for now. I know I'm valued at work, but I hope God works it out that I can make more money.

Some bills ate up part of the graduation presents (funds). I bought Elaine some casual school clothes and we had to buy Elaine new sneakers, since she's in P.E. now. Then some of my graduation presents were spent this week to purchase the professional graduation photos. I ordered enough for all our parents to get one, and two for me. That's one to frame and one to scrapbook.

I hear a lot that I don't do enough for myself. That seemed to be the running theme with what people wrote inside my graduation greeting cards. A lot of yall will be relieved about this: I did buy myself some new clothes for graduation weekend (a dress, skirt, sweater, 2 tops and 2 pairs of shoes). And with the present from Pamela, I bought some scrapbooking goodies from the dollar general and BigLots about a week ago (she DID specify that I should do something for myself... scrapbooking definately counts!).

Last night instead of having our normal Wednesday night Bible Study, Susan and I used our scrapbooking supplies to make greeting cards for people at church. We made about a dozen in two hours. They will be used for church members who are ill, get married, graduate from school or whatever. We tried to make a variety. While Susan and I made the cards, Jimmy fixed Susan & George's printer. Anything where I get to craft really relaxes me. :)


Here's a picture from Elaine's first day of Kingergarten. I woke up to take her picture and went back to sleep. Jim packed her lunch and took her to school.
I work in an hour, so I better go. I think that's everything that's going on. I'll add pictures of my scrapbook layouts soon.
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Here's the layouts:
I did this layout about Jimmy and David at six flags. I think some time I'll add miniature boys in a round boat onto the paper river that I put on the layout. (as always, the pictures get larger when you double-click on them).