Busy Days

This was a busy weekend. Friday night, I had a Digital Scrapbooking get together with Creative Memories...my good friend Reta is a consultant and I asked her to come up and give a demonstration that was based on the digital products that CM sells. She brought along her "trusty sidekick" Patti and away we went. I had some friends over and Reta was able to tell them all about the digital side of things. I am highly addicted to it and love it and really wanted to share how great it is. The evening was great, we had some good laughs, some delicious brownies (what my daughter didn't manage to eat) and we all learned alot. Sales were good and I think everyone realized how great the products are! Reta and Patti were spending the night so we stayed up past our bedtime for a few more giggles...Graham was so kind to come down and tell us that we better be done by midnight...

Saturday morning started with baseball of course. I think it's great that they have this little spring training program, Graham is learning alot from it. After baseball they were having a football practice in the indoor soccer facility, it's great to see it used for other sports as well. Elysia was at her friend's house, Mike was working so I had a babysitter for Graham and off I went to the Old O for a day of scrapbooking with friends. I only take my laptop with me...the cruel part of me gets a chuckle out of people carrying in their bags of stuff and I show up with my one or two bags...plug in my computer and away I go. Patti, Reta, Alice and Sonya were all there. Sonya has just begun to finally see the "scrapbooking light", of course being the technical person, the light is from her computer screen. I think she really enjoyed it!

I only stayed until about 5 and then the kids and I went to see Grandma. We stayed for supper and a quick visit. I wanted to see all the work she had done in the bathrooms. Yes, I forgot to tell you about my lovely Friday night at mother's house last weekend. Mike and I had striped some border off mom's walls in the rec room. We were unable to get the border off in the bathroom by hand. So I called my mother on Friday and ask what she's doing and she says she's rented a steamer and intends to take the border off that night...agh!! Mothers!! I "volunteered" my services...had I only known. I will never, ever in my entire life strip wallpaper that has to come off with a steamer (unless there are copious amounts of cash or alcohol involved). Three hours later, it was off. I am sure her painter still had quite the job to do taking the paste off before he painted but I don't know him and I didn't have to do it...so I don't care!

We had a great visit with Maria! She was suppose to head out on Tuesday morning but the 20+ cms of snow put a stop to that, so she didn't end up going until Wed morning...do you know how early you have to get up to make a 6:30 flight in Halifax?! The sun wasn't even coming up until I was almost home! Maria had alot of fun and saw some things she doesn't get to see in Ottawa...Hall's Harbour, a calf autopsy, a mink farm (she did not like that smell!)