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I said I would get a longer post out “tomorrow” and here it is Wednesday already!

After Ted ran the half marathon the rest of his weekend was spent relaxing and recuperating. Lucky for him that Katherine took a nice long nap on Saturday and Sunday which allowed him to do some napping as well. For me it was a weekend to get back to scrapbooking. My little craft table in the guest bedroom closet (affectionately called my “hole”) had become a heap. Because we recently took down K’s crib and put away the Pooh décor, the table had become a nifty hiding place for the stuff that needed to be put in the attic but which we didn’t want Katherine dragging all over the house. So task one, put said items up in the attic, including the crib, changing table and a few other items of baby paraphernalia. The jury’s still out on the if/when of a baby #2 so we’re not throwing anything away at this point. Which, quite frankly, we’re screwed if and when that time comes. I’ve been good about boxing up K’s clothes when she outgrows them but I haven’t been too good about sorting and marking sizes on the boxes. Translation, if we do have another child and it’s a girl this will necessitate taking EVERYTHING out and sorting it at that time. Remind me of this if that happens and I post being all cranky about the mess that is in each of those boxes. Then again, maybe it’ll be a boy in which case all of those boxes of girl clothes can go straight to Goodwill or the next family member expecting a girl at that time. I’ll let them sort the boxes out for themselves, (my apologies at this time to those said family members…Colleen, Bryn and Aly…I’m talking to you!).

So, anyway, back to scrapbooking. On Saturday night, I was invited over to Adrienne’s house (a co-worker of Ted’s) for an evening of scrapbooking. OK, it was a lot of conversation and a little book of scrapbooking. I had a great time and I did get the first page of K’s first year book all laid out. During the conversation, the topic of Archiver’s came up, of course. This nifty store is located at the Triangle Town Center Mall and is devoted to all things scrapbooking. I could not remember the last time I had been there and since my curiosity was peeked I drove over on Sunday to browse for a bit. Wow, you can easily spend an hour or more in that place poking around. Plus if you really want to spend some time they have two workrooms where you can bring your stuff and scrapbook for the day. I’m thinking that could be dangerous because if you need something as your working you can just go right over to the rack, grab it and have it added to your “tab”. How high would my tab be after a day of that? I try to buy only for a page or two at a time, it keeps me focused and it saves me $$$ and I had to remind myself this as I walked around…”Cute, would look nice on such and such page, I’ll make a note of it and pick it up then.” Still I did walk out with a few goodies. Of course, then I went over to Target and found the fancy edging scissors I just purchased as part of an 8-pack at a much cheaper price. You bet your bippy I picked those up and went right back to Archivers to return the pair I just bought there.

On the K. front, this past weekend was the start of some challenging bedtimes. Now that she’s in a big girl bed, she realizes how easy it is to get out of bed whenever she feels like it. Which, truthfully it was just as easy when she was in the toddler bed but maybe because it was the converted crib there was a psychological factor that was working to our advantage. So lately, the bedtime routine is that we get her in bed promptly (so to speak) at 8:00 only to have her get right back up and find us with that sly little grin. We sternly return her to bed and this continues for the next 30 minutes or so. Yes, she thinks it’s a game. It usually ends with one of us loudly saying to her “Katherine go back to bed!!” which for a few nights resulted in tears but she would put herself back to bed. Last night I was on the computer and I heard the sound of little feet coming down the hall, so I nipped it before she even hit the room…”Katherine you need to go back to bed!” ha HA! Mommy supersense, I can’t see you but I know you’re there! She plodded back down the hallway and that was it for the night. Foiled!

She also has developed a love for the “peanutbutterjellysan-which” which she asks for just about every night during Dora or Diego. Clearly, we know which Papa this comes from!