Love it/ Hate it!!

I have been in a love hate relationship. My mother had a dear friend go with her to Denmark to help with Rachel, do the hair and the bridal bouquet and the cake and the centerpieces and the chair backs and the table clothes and all that stuff. She is sooo good at that kind of stuff, she has done it all before. She did my whole reception and made my cake, she helped with Becky's and made Becky's cake, and she traveled to Denmark to do Rachel's and I'm sure she will be around to do Melanie's too! Anyway Mom wanted to do something nice for her friend after it was all said and done. So she decided to do a scrapbook.

Okay you have to understand my Mother, she does not DO crafty! She hates to do anything crafty unless it involves a power tool like a band saw. She can do those ones just not the ribbons, the scrapbooks, the flowers, the painting and all that. So she asked for my help. Not only does she not do the crafty stuff she hates to shop so when we went to go shopping at Micheals she almost had a heart attack. She got sooo stressed at doing this book. I had to reevaluate my approach to this book. Peel and stick were all we could go with. She found a premade book and I made her get some friend stickers and some wedding embellishments. I MADE HER get them! I promise you will use them and it Will be easy I said! It is a good thing she trusted me! She got them and she used them a lot! So yesterday after shopping she pulled them out and was going through the pictures and trying to put them in place and it was becoming messy and she slammed the book shut and said she had reached her breaking point after only 5 minutes. I did not give up on her! She came over today and we took just the pictures and separated them to the pages that we wanted and stuck them directly in the protector so we did not ave to rethink it all over again. That was not so hard for her. Then we started at the front. She would have been soooo stressed out if I had not had the glue the scissors and the creative thinking (she only needed on the first page or so and then she got going) right at my fingertips. I did give her some extra creative suggestions and she took the ones she could do and let me know which ones were over her head. She got going and she did real good.

We had to stop for lunch when this oil company guy came over to talk to Jeanne and George. We went to Charlies hamburger grill. It was pretty good. They had the hugest portion of chili cheese fries I have ever seen. They came out in their own mixing bowl it was so huge! And they were good! Then when we came back she went to work again. she got it all done that she could, there was a page that needed some photos that didn't print when she ordered them. So she will finish those after she has printed them out.
She did it! She did the thing she HATED, and I helped her do the thing I LOVE!

Other news: I Have PICTURES! The ones from my camera anyway. The ones on my cell phone cannot be downloaded yet. The phone is not syncing to the computer. I know I know lots and lots of excuses. I can't help it!
We are going to Tyler this weekend. We have some water park tickets we need to use before they expire.
Caleb is starting to have more trouble in school. His regular teacher is out on maternity leave and the substitute and the assistant teacher do not handle him the same. Either that or his cute behavior no longer balances out his more annoying behavior.
Lizzie is Good. Still growing, still head butting me.
Eric is good and still in training. He has some tests he is taking soon. He will pass of course but he is sure that some of the people will not and they will be let go then.
I am good. Still losing weight even though it is slowing down. I am keeping up on the house. Mostly because of the oil company guy coming over today! And Christmas decorations are coming along. I found this site that has the most gorgeous garland on it. And she made it out of all these items that were on sale! I will have to find it again I found it on the other computer that will not turn on reliably. When I find it again I will tell you.