The Call of the Blog

I am heeding the call to blog. Coming off a weekend of scrapping, it seems yet another great way to blow off some creative steam. It is about eleven o'clock p.m., I just drove over two hours home, I went to bed later last night than I have in a long, long time (2 a.m.!)...and yet I feel strangely energized. Reflecting on this, I have come to understand why.
By day I am a hospice social worker. While this job may be very minimally demanding physically, it is very demanding emotionally, and it is often exhausting. I find myself coming home from a day at work and actually unwinding and relaxing in the hum-drum duties of everyday life-mopping the floors, making lunches, vacuuming furniture, and squeezing in a workout here and there. It is easy to get caught up in the rhythm of these days that slip away, one into another into another, and not realize that there is a need for something else. I had a chance to experience that something else this weekend, and it made me realize that it has been quite a while since I last had the opportunity.
During a weekend in which The Guys got together to play golf, and The Girls hung out and tended boys and babies, The Girls decided that it was high time for them to get together for some good old-fashioned chick time, and the idea for The Scrapping Weekend was born. A date was set, plans were made, and the weekend came to fruition. Food was prepared, scrapping was done, late night-Wendy's runs were had, and brownies and milk were consumed in the wee morning hours. It was at about two a.m. that I realized, I hadn't been to a sleepover in years! And there was a reason that they were so much fun all those years ago. It is because there really is no substitute for some good old-fashioned girl time where you can be completely yourself and not have to try to impress anyone. And some scrapping thrown in doesn't hurt either.
So here I am, coming up on 11:30 p.m., past my bedtime again, and I am still reveling in the afterglow of all the girliness. So, here's to you Amy and Kimberly, I really got something that I desperately needed out of this weekend, and I hope that you guys had as much fun as I did. I'm already gearing up for the next one.



***Special thanks to those who made all of this fun possible...Greg, Jim, and Chris for tending to the boys and babies so we could scrap stress-free, my sister Laura for minding Emily while Greg attended his first class of the semester, and of course AMY for hosting this great event!***