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Dave Update<\/u>: With the kids at home to help Dave (most of the help he needs now is picking up stuff that he’s dropped, by the way), I was able to go back out to the weekend crop on Saturday and take advantage of a few more hours of making pages. Dave had a really good day, although he’s really starting to get bored just sitting and watching TV. He’s having trouble reading with the drugs he’s on, but hopes to get into reading a bit more once he’s off them. <\/p>\n
After I got home from the crop, we took Dave out to dinner — his first outing since he came home from the hospital at dinnertime on Tuesday. We just went to Vinnie R’s, a local Italian restaurant that’s right on the edge of our neighborhood (1.5 miles from home).<\/p>\n
At about 8:30pm last night, Dave sneezed. He typically doesn’t suppress sneezes, and he didn’t with this one. The pain started right back up again and we felt like he was back at square one, the jolts of pain and muscle spasms immediately returned. He was on a minimum of pain medications, so he felt every bit of the pain until he went back up the recommended dosages and could get things back under control.<\/p>\n
This morning (Sunday), he’s feeling better. He slept a little funny and had a knot in one of his glutes that took a couple hours to relax. But otherwise, he’s ready for another day of sitting and healing.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s Progress<\/u>: I did 9 more pages on Saturday: 5 more pages for Timmy’s 1st year baby book and 4 pages featuring our October 2004 Bahamas cruise for our family vacations scrapbook.<\/p>\n
Angela had proclaimed “This isn’t a competition…BUT….”. We didn’t mean to, but we girls were definitely counting the pages we made up over the weekend. I completed 17 pages in over the two days, which is pretty impressive for me \ud83d\ude42 The other ladies will have cranked out anywhere from 25-40 pages over the weekend, but they were staying at the hotel and had 18 hours per day available…I did not.<\/p>\n
One of the ladies gave me a ton of design help on Timmy’s 1st Christmas pages. I realized how far into the stone age I am with my styles. I broke out my circa 2002 Coluzzle<\/a> and you’d have thought I was breaking out Medusa’s head, lol!<\/p>\n Things have come a long way since the days I last did marathon cropping, back when we were stationed at Patrick AFB and I’d get together with Angie, Kasi and Suzy for afternoon crafts about once a month or so. For the first time, this weekend I was able to try out a Xyron sticker machine<\/a>, a Cuttlebug cutter\/embosser<\/a>, and the electronic Cricut paper cutter system<\/a> (with an infinite choice of cartridges!). I could get lots of use out of the Xyron and should probably buy one, but the Cricut scared me to death!<\/p>\n Dave should be proud that I did all of these pages without paying a DIME for any new scrapbooking materials — only a payment into the meeting room at the hotel, and about $30 worth of photos that I had printed up at our local Walgreens. Although I now want to hit up A.C. Moore and stock up on some of the latest and greatest! With a 40% coupon, of course!<\/p>\n I’ve completed 13 pages of Timmy’s first year scrapbook and probably have about 6-7 more pages in mind. They aren’t chronological (I have a traditional baby book that documents his first-year milestones), but rather fun collections of pictures I had of him in his first year, such as eating, bathtime, and family gatherings. Jacob has a similar book that I finished several years ago.<\/p>\n