i have finally succumbed to the insanity

i have a confession.
please, don't be too judgemental,
or think less of me as a mother.
but...

i don't scrapbook

wait! hold on to your knitting a second, grab your smelling salts if you must,
i mean, i didn't scrapbook
until today.

although, technically i still haven't scrapbooked today
i just went shopping, but that counts, right?

especially when it's a warehouse clearance-y sale on scrapbook stuff that is now so cheap it's almost a crime to not buy it.
then i came home, got online, and ordered 147 prints of aeryn's kindergarten life thus far.

i've realized that it is tragic to take 3-400 pictures a month and have them all trapped in digital form where no one, including myself, gets to enjoy them.

Behold: what $45 can buy


you realize that normally $45 would buy something like this


or this


or even this


never this


so, excuse me, i need to go make something. if i'm not seen for a week, just dig through the pile of scraps on my living room floor. i'm bound to be in there somewhere.


(nichole, you cannot quit this job until i get into rehab)