Due to mini crisis at home related to enforcing computer gaming rules for my boys, we had to take a hard stand last week and removed the cables to the computer indefinitely!! It worked and there was no protest and in fact a peaceful week (it was a one week school holiday) spent playing board games and creating with Lego and Knex, outdoors, at the beach, and at the museum!
Unfortunately for me I share the computer with the boys (the dh has one for himself..because he has work on it, well that's his reason anyway :p ) I was OFFLINE too!
It was quite uncomfortable, but I too did more reading, and finally, I scrapped, the traditionally paper way! Well, I have been wanting to re-scrap the boys' baby photos which were not digital photos, and did not want to bother with scanning them. Guess what, I enjoyed myself so much! The scrapping was tedious and I kept it simple, but going through Ryan's baby photos just felt so... well, precious and warm and fuzzy, and I am now able to journal a lot about those days, well, from my current reflections of 11 years ago! Look at some of these pages!
I asked Ryan what he did to my sweet baby in those photos, and he said " I upgraded him." I can't disagree with that!
Okay, I did log on a few times after they went to bed, downloaded freebies and over the weekend, completed a page:
Credits: Papers by Kschmidt's flight of fancy, wordarts and ribbon by Gina Caberra, title alpha by faith42love , charm by Lori Barnhurst, swirls by Janosch designs, butterfly by Weeds&Wildflower
Credits: Papers by Kschmidt's flight of fancy, wordarts and ribbon by Gina Caberra, title alpha by faith42love , charm by Lori Barnhurst, swirls by Janosch designs, butterfly by Weeds&Wildflower 
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Oh boy - while I agree with enforcing rules for the kids, that would sure be harder for ME than for them! I admire your example to them by sticking with it! I am waiting for my children to notice that they have timers for "screen time" but I don't... I'm a bad mommy... :O
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What a great idea to make the game thing rule happen. I know it was a bummer for you but still looked productive. Maybe I need you to come to my house and enforce the less Internet rule... lol my DH would love you for it... lol
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Blessings,
Shawna
Wondered what happened... But you know, sometimes I take a week off, just so I can refocus on other things (sometimes because I'm going out of too, LOL). Love Ryan's baby pics and his response to you. How funny is that. Thanks for another great template.
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Sharon
Thank you - I love these 2-pagers!! Great layouts and good for you for unplugging the computer for a week, I'm glad you enjoyed the time with your boys:)
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