Paper Posse - Quarter Two chat thread

This is how I feel. It's only meant to get to 15 here today, so once I've done tasks like the grocery shopping, I'm coming to hide out in my space.

Thank you and all the other peas who sent well wishes for my Dad's healing. He is doing okay but is impatient to be able to use his right arm again. The break is near his shoulder so no cast, only a sling - which is an imperfect solution for keeping it immobile. He doesn't like sitting around and is frustrated to have others have to do things for him. He's working on getting his strength back for walking, lifting himself to standing from sitting one-handed/one-armed, etc. especially after 3 days in the hospital where he could only get up and walk with assistance.

Anyway, my brother had to go back home for his own [unrelated] medical reasons mid-week, and my sister can't get here until next weekend (teacher/spring break) so I have one more week on my own with him. Plus all of the home care staff (PT, OT, RN, etc.) that come throughout the week to work with him for an hour at a time. I'm also working (remotely) through this as much as possible.

ETA that my wonderful awesome DH came up this weekend (Fri night through this morning) to be with me and help!! It made a huge difference and felt like the burden was lessened for a while. He also helped me talk my dad through some small changes we (my siblings and the rest of the family) want him to make to be able to continue living on his own.

To answer your question, he already has a linguistics degree and is studying Arabic language. He also speaks Spanish & French so Morocco is a good place for him to study. He's in the final stretch of the program and he and his fellow students are working on presenting their capstone projects.

I missed this! I'm just going through the list of challenges now to plan my LO's and it's a kid free weekend too.  Well, little kid weekend.  I'm not sure about my big kids and what spanners they might through into my scrappy plans. Darn work, or I would hide out for the whole 4 days lol.  

Writing that in my planner so I don't forget! Thank you

I'm opening up a crop on google meet later today if anyone is interested! It's like getting double the double points since the points are double anyway for cropping with others. Woot! I'm excited. It feels like forever since I've been this excited to scrap.

Anyone is welcome to join in!

I knew this, but then completely forgot. I've got an idea of what I did over the weeekend so I'm just going to make an estimate for my points.

Hi Paper Posse! My best scrappy friend and I got together this weekend to scrap. We almost never do that unless we go away for a crop. My DH is out of town this weekend so it worked out perfectly. Hope everyone else has had a good weekend with some crafty time. 

Good Morning!

I agree Linda, I'm working on April points as well. Anything to make things easier!

I'll be online cropping with my mom and niece Saturday during the day and then depending on energy and motivation, join in for a bit if there is an online crop here. I usually take some time off around this weekend but I got beat to it this year. That actually worked out well since I pushed my time off to the 15th so I can take more part in the double points weekend activities. Win-win

I'm also knitting a blanket here and there while watching TV. I'm hosting a day of the Pea crop as well and want to spend part of Saturday planning my prompt, etc. Everything feels so busy lately? Is it just me or is life just coming faster and faster? Is this what happens when you get older? lol

Oof! My "vacation" has left me feeling like a zombie, and with a strange feeling of "grief" that it's over and we're back to normalcy! We've been home since Monday, but I haven't done any scrapping and there is still 1 suitcase on my bedroom floor, plus a box of receipts/memorabilia that I put out for all the kids to just dump into when they found bits and pieces they thought I should look at.

I also have many photos to sort of course!

Hoping to scrap this weekend if I can find my mojo and can ignore the chaos that is the house. I thought I might pick a few vacation photos, edit and print at home so give myself some encouragement. But I don't want to do too much with them because I want to make an album "plan" which will include a lot of divided page protectors.