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Awesome Cheryl! Hope you are enjoying the return to traditional layouts.
As November draws to a close, I am not anticipating getting anymore layouts done--and that isn't all a bad thing. On Monday, I was offered a full-time job which I accepted. I start on 12/11 and will be busy until then helping my current employer get ready for my absence. While I am very sad to leave the doctor's office I currently work for, circumstances at my husbands job had made it critical for me to go back to full-time work. I will be working at a Gastroenterology office now, instead of a general practitioner--a three doctor group instead of a single-doctor practice. My other part-time job at the bookstore has asked me to stay on through the holidays just on Saturday morning to shelf the magazines, which I am more than happy to do. With all that going on plus regular holiday stuff, December is going to be a bit crazy. But hopefully, 2018 will be a much better year for our family.
Awesome Cheryl! Hope you are enjoying the return to traditional layouts.
Yes and no. It's fun to do something practically, rather than digitally, but it does take longer and it's tempered with sadness, as this will be my last traditional book and then it's time to say goodbye to papers etc., which will be hard.
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As November draws to a close, I am not anticipating getting anymore layouts done--and that isn't all a bad thing. On Monday, I was offered a full-time job which I accepted. I start on 12/11 and will be busy until then helping my current employer get ready for my absence. While I am very sad to leave the doctor's office I currently work for, circumstances at my husbands job had made it critical for me to go back to full-time work. I will be working at a Gastroenterology office now, instead of a general practitioner--a three doctor group instead of a single-doctor practice. My other part-time job at the bookstore has asked me to stay on through the holidays just on Saturday morning to shelf the magazines, which I am more than happy to do. With all that going on plus regular holiday stuff, December is going to be a bit crazy. But hopefully, 2018 will be a much better year for our family.
Oh wow, congrats on the new job! Hope all goes well for you over the holiday season - you really are going to be busy!
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Here's my latest update: another 35 digital pages (one more book done! ) and 18 traditional pages (motoring on! ) to take me to the rather scary 1,313! Wow, I'm really pleased with that and there's still a few more days left of 2017 to get some more done....
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You guys have all done so well! And congrats on the new job, Raelynn!
I tend not to come here when I've been away from scrapping....which is silly, since it would help me be motivated.
Anyway, I've done about 10 pages only....all but two pages of DS17's school-years book, and two pages of a scrapbook chronicling my journey earning my Private Pilot License (I have to think some more before doing the very first page).
So my not-terribly-impressive total for the year is 123. If I'd been scrapping instead of fooling around on my computer.....
Anyway, every page we've done this year represents cherished memories that we can retain forever. Time to start thinking of next year!
As I anticipated, no more layouts for me in 2017, my final total is 150/200. I still have two months to set up for my planner, which if I am lucky I will finish before 2018 as this weekend will be busy (Nik has sleepover tonight and we are hosting my sister's family for NYE).
I had grand plans. Had a vacation to China (need to scrap!), new grandbaby (need to start her scrap book!), WDW vacation (need to scrap!)
BUT . . .
We came home from WDW and four days later I was admitted into the hospital for eleven days! I had pneumonia with complications from Sjogrens or CF or something (still being investigated and you know how fast medical information is to get!!). I am still recuperating from that little fiasco - having one good day and two or three iffy days :>(
So, I am still stuck working on a book for Alaska (trip done in 2014!!!). I guess I will just move on with grand plans for 2018~~~~!
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2016 Scrapbooking Goal - 125 - actual 29
2015 Scrapbooking Goal - 100 - actual 75
2014 Scrapbooking Goal - 100 - actual 74
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Hope all goes well for you over the holiday season - you really are going to be busy!
) to take me to the rather scary 1,313! 
Wow, I'm really pleased with that and there's still a few more days left of 2017 to get some more done....
) and you still have those to scrap, so you get to relive those vacations. 
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