28 weeks tomorrow!!!

Crazy how time flies when your having....nothing to do?! Yup bedrest is the life for all of two seconds and then it drives you crazy! But good thing for me I have figured a way to keep my screams of boredom away. Before I was sent to the hospital the first time I found two of the cutest scrapbooks for our girls! Some pages where already premade so I would be able to just slide my photos in but it also made me realize how awfully ameture I am at scrapbooking. So to bide my time I have spent most of my awake moments scouring the internet for ideas and forums to learn how to better my scrapbooking ways and make my girls the best scrapbooks for them to have when they are older! I will admit that some people just are to damn good and I bought several "premade" pages that I knew in my heart I would never be able to make, but then I found myself in a shop on etsy.com that has made me feel much more better about creating beautiful scrapbook pages, not spending an arm and a leg, and still allowing me to make the pages so I still feel a personal connection to the book itself. www.upinthenight.etsy.com has these two wonderful ladies that have created kits of pages. Each kit comes with the page, embellishments, photo mats and titles, all you need to add is your pictures, or your own personal touch to the final product! Once explaining my perdicament about needing two "grandma" layouts (one for each girls book) they quickly came up with a plan and I ordered two different kits one being an actual grandma kit, the other being a family kit that they customized into a grandma kit at no extra charge!! The kits arrived quicker than expected and the pages are amazing!!! As I said in the review that I left at their shop site, for a person on bedrest who can't run out for something needed to finish a page, their kits are perfect! They even came with the brads!! If thats not top service I don't know what is! The price wasn't bad either! between 5 and 10 bucks you get a kit! Very nice! When you can purchase a pack of BASIC cardstock paper for 15.99 at michaels no embellishments or anything. I don't gush on shops or stores that often, but when someone does a fabulous job not once but twice I have to speak up! I have also decided that since I do have alot of time on my hands and I won't when the girls get here, why can't I make premade layouts for their books? That way when something great comes along (like easter, first smile, first bath, 4th of july) I already have the page made! Just need to add notes, and the photos!! Makes sense to me now, but we will see how it goes later! I was given permission to cheat a little on my bedrest since everything is doing so well so I saved up all my energy and some christmas cash and went to Michaels yesterday after my sono and only looked at the scrapbook isles. Which are conviently located as the first 4 isles of the store so no extra walking was needed and bought up as much as I could to make these books special! I was so excited to get started I went home and made a couple of pages =] I feel confident already about my new way of scrappin! I have even gotten someone to take all of our ultrasounds and scan them nicely onto an SD card so I can print them, and someone else has taken our sono DVD's and are creating copies so I can put them in the books as well! Hopefully technology won't have changed so much that they will be able to view them when they are older! I feel so invigorated (sp?) about the new things I will be able to do for their books!! At the beginning of this pregnancy I felt alone, horrible, sick, tired, aweful, just all around shitty. But after getting my "24-hour" sickness under control I feel a thousand times better! Things that drove me crazy before don't now. I will answer my phone (though I am still horrible at calling people back) and I feel like I have something AMAZING to look forward too! I have done a 180 and it feels great!!!

love,
-C