Moments in Time

Awww, he is the cutest little thing, isn't he? (Remind me of that the next time he runs out the back door and squeezes himself under the bottom deck stair!) He misses his Mommy. Jess is spending the night at a friend's house and Tiggy normally sleeps with Jess, often in her bed. Now that she's officially a teenager (and boys are soon to enter the picture), I guess we all better get used to Friday nights without Jess!

Ali took the SRI (Scholastic Reading Inventory) in school this week and I am dying to find out her score. (She'll get it next week, we think.) She told me it was "a piece of cake" and that "I nailed it". When we mentioned to the teacher at Open House that the class had taken the test, Ms. Dunn told us that both she and the student teacher were amazed at the questions Ali was answering - apparently correctly. I always suspected the little bugger was at least as smart as her big sis - - it's a matter of motivating her to use those smarts!

I've also been really itching to make something this week. I've been visiting SplitCoastStampers.com and various blogs and amassed a bunch of ideas that I'm dying to try out. One of them is a criss cross card (see the tutorial here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/crisscrosscard.php). Here's my first attempt at one:


I made these Christmas gift bags for a swap I'm in:


Tomorrow I'm off to visit a stamp store and scrapbook store with a friend. We're also going to stop by a large annual craft show in Hatton. More inspiration! :-)