Busy Times

Way back at the start of this month I vowed to do what made me happy which obviously includes photo taking and scrapbooking. And this is the first layout I've done since New Years! That is a really long stretch for me, 21 days, crazy.

 

However, I have been busy, but in a good way. Darrel and I designed our new kitchen, the cabinets have been purchased and we are even thinking about installing them sooner rather than later. I've been pretty busy with yearly planning for Young Womens. It seems like at the start of the year there is so much to do. I have also started working three hours a week for MacEwan. This is mainly to pay for my beloved photography course that I will attend in March (and some of those kitchen cabinets!). Julie is teething like crazy so is taking more attention than her normal happy self. On the bright side, I get a lot of reading done as I cuddle and nurse her. I've reread two of the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon and just started the third. Such a good series! I read it again every few years and fall in love with Jaime and Claire all over again. Sigh. At parts a bit racy, so read at your own discretion, this is what good historical romance/adventure fiction should be. Fabulous.

Also read Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See which I would highly recommend. She is one of those authors that can write fiction that is set in another time and place and make you feel like you are living there. Her description of the process of foot binding will put chills down your spine. Yikes. It really does make you wonder if people looking back on our society in 200 years will read descriptions of botox and face lifts and shudder with the same kind of repulsion.