Good morning Vietnam! Yes, I know that has absolutely nothing to do with this post. But it’s one of my favorite lines from the movie (and also I love Robin Williams’ work). And sometimes when I say good morning, inside my head I’m really saying good morning, Vietnam exactly like he did. Go ahead –…
Just another Manic Monday…. Here are the Bangles singing it to get you in the mood. Honestly my Mondays are no more manic than any other week day but I often find myself singing this song on Monday mornings. Ready to see what Day 1 of Week in the Life looked like for me? Wake…
Eek! It’s almost here already! I feel like I’m still recovering from Day in the Life (you can read about it here, here, and here). I’m not ready for another big documenting project already! What’s the problem you might ask. I’m known as the Scrapbook Fairy and I love pictures. So why am I dreading…
As I was driving Bella to practice the other day, the subject of movies came up. Specifically Winnie the Pooh movies. She said that there is a new one and I told her I had already seen it and didn’t like it at all. On my flight to Salt Lake City a couple weeks ago,…
Just announced – Week in the Life 2018 will be May 7-13, 2018. Did you participate in Day in the Life last Thursday? Was it easier than you thought it might be? Ready to try tackling a whole week? Week in the Life is more of a commitment (and honestly I usually barely make it…
Welcome back for the final installment of Day in the Life, March 2018. I always find it a bit ironic that I often spend more time recording the memories than I did making them in the first place. Oh the trials of a scrapbooker… Or should I say Head Family Memory Preservation Specialist? That makes…
Did you see Part 1 of my day in the life story? We left off as I was rushing out the door, late for work. Join me now for more of Thursday, March 18… Through Mid-Afternoon 0834 Enter my classroom. As I suspected, my uneaten breakfast burrito from yesterday is sitting right where I left it. …
I did a great job of capturing my day. Maybe too good of a job because so far I’ve typed up only about a third of my notes. I decided to break my day up into sections to make a shorter, easier read. Here we go – My life on Thursday, March 14, 2018: Before…
One of my favorite scrapbook projects is Ali Edwards’ Day in the Life. She chooses a few days each year to highlight through this project as well as sometimes a longer, more involved life capture called Week in the Life. My first time participating in Day in the Life was 2007. I even have that…
I went to the market today. Not my usual shopping at Safeway. Nope. Today I went to H-Mart. For me, going to H-Mart is a trip to an exotic location. I am fascinated and nervous at the same time. It’s a grocery store (I go to the grocery store practically every day) but filled with…
“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.” -William Butler Yeats, poet This is how I feel about my new blog – like a fire has been lit. I am so happy when I stumble across a new tidbit or story. So excited. So fun!
Hello and welcome! Just a quick note to share my vision for this blog. As mentioned on my welcome page, I’ve always been fascinated by those little behind-the-scenes glimpses and tidbits of trivia about the world – how things work, where common phrases come from, what it’s like to work in a certain profession, the…