Every time I think I'll get this blog up and going, life gets complicated and I let it sit there in the background, neglected. Not on purpose, but yet, neglected. Tonight I decided to try again. I can't promise to engage and stay consistent but I'm going to try to do better.
Where has life taken us? Well, last year we were on a journey of survival with my husband and I both teaching in the year we all felt like we were scrambling every day with each new curve ball thrown our way. I'm not going to spend any more time talking about it though because it's now behind us and this year is already looming on the horizon with the 21-22 school year starting for us in another week. Actually I have three days of in-service training next week and then the following week, our son starts his Senior year with Summer Band Camp in full swing.
Our oldest daughter, Hannah, is a Junior in college, Nate is a Senior in High School, and Rachel is an 8th grader. I'm starting my 25th year of teaching in the public school and for the 4th year in a row my job has another twist and bit of chaos involved with it. I am getting to go back to teaching 5th grade music and 6th grade choir, but due to the wonderful pandemic wrecking havoc on the choral world, my choir is half the size it normally is and lucky me, the dance classes filled up so I'm now teaching dance to 6th graders. That's right, dance - to 6th graders. I'm totally out of my comfort zone and honestly this has consumed me all summer. Stay tuned for the humorous stories that are going to come out of this experience.
So, to settle my nerves I've turned to my self-care stress reliever of crocheting. If you get to looking for me, you'll find me in the corner crocheting up a storm. I've made baby blankets galore, which turned out to be a blessing for my husband since 5 of the staff on his campus were expecting a new addition to their families by the end of last school term. I've spent the summer replenishing our stash. I just finished up a shawl for me that I need to take a photo of and started another baby blanket this week. I think this about sums up my feelings...
If you like the text in the middle of the card, you can pick it up HERE for free. It's in png format so you can size it down (never try to re-size things larger because that distorts it when you go to print).
The graphics I used on the card are from the 2021 June: Strength digital scrap kit by North Meets South Studio. I kept it simple because I wanted the text to stand out a little more but this kit has a lot of lovely elements in it. The card is a printable 4X6 size and if you would like it to print for yourself, you can pick it up HERE.
Sometimes I'm inspired by random images I run across on Facebook. This was shared in one of the crochet groups I'm a member of and I thought it was really cool! This is Malaga, Spain, where the women who lived there crocheted and put together this shadow-giving miracle. Below this is a pedestrian street with shops and cafés.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend. I'm going to crochet, work on some motivational prints for my two classroom spaces, and maybe go take some photos outdoors. That last one may not happen but the thought is there. I'd love to hear from any of you that stop by the blog! My plans for the blog as of now are to still share scrapbooking ideas, inspiration, freebies, recipes, crochet ideas/inspiration, faith based posts, and just life in general.
See ya later!
