Ethnic Scrapbooking

What Life is About

For 13 years now I've had a flexible work arrangement that has allowed me to be the primary care giver of my children. Today was one of those days when I am eternally grateful for being able to work from home. 

The kids came home from school and we were on the tail end of homework, when someone from work called and I did my two finger snap for them to pipe down while I took the call.  Well, they took this as an opportunity to break camp.  They put their shoes on, got the bikes out of the garage and headed out to the bike path for a quick spin in a light rain.  When I realized where they were, I grabbed the closest camera to grab some shots.  I wanted this to serve as a visual reminder that I am so blessed to be at home when they come in from school.

Here they are racing downthe path.  Joseph was doing pretty good at keeping up too.  Then he took a spill, flat on his stomach (Didn't get photo because I was about to break out into a run) but no tears, he just got up and kept on going.

He kept telling me, "Look how fast I go Mommy!"

Back 2 School mode

Although this is week #3 for my kids...I met my own weekly challege on the African American Scrappers yahoo group to scrap about Back to School.

After reading Ali Edward's new book on working with patterned paper, I thought I'd do some layering...but when it gets right down to it, I'm just a simple scrapper trying to get pages done.

National Scrapbooking Association

Have you heard of the National Scrapbooking Association?  I'm sure you realized that there's an association for everything:)  Please check out their website and consider becoming a member.  It is a great way to participate INSIDE the scrapbooking industry, to make our culturally concerted voices heard.

I've written an article and NSA has so graciously published it,  here's the link:Lisa's article and please answer the question at the bottom of the article and post your response.