Back At It

Yesterday, for the first time in over a month, Mickey and I were able to get together for one of our scrapbooking days.  These are the best kind of days, when we take ourselves away from children and grandchildren and just spend all day doing the fun kind of things we like - shopping, eating, and scrapbooking. 

The pot on the stove behind Mickey contains a corn chowder I made for supper from a recipe I got from Pinterest.  It was delicious.  I made biscuits to go with it for a quick easy meal

We sit at a long table in my scrapbooking room with the sun shining in the patio doors, spread out our sb paraphernalia, then we turn the radio up and listen to easy rock, occasionally humming or singing quietly along, talking back to the radio personalities and each other as we go about our creative recording of our life's happenings.  And we talk...about our families mostly (we each have an autistic grandson so we discuss their special challenges)...and about life in general...comparing notes on ideas and circumstances.  It's amazing how much we have in common - including our left-handedness.  It's like we've known each other for much longer than the seven years since we met  at a local scrapbooking event.    Everyone should have a Mickey in their lives and nice sunny days to share with her.

I didn't get too many pages done yesterday, what with the eating, shopping and stopping for an hour to watch American Idol...just three pages...very simple, uncomplicated ones.

Our grandson, Micah, is a totally unique sweet boy,
the fourth of five sons of my daughter Jenny and her husband Anders.

I always love doing pictures of my sweetie. 
 He's standing on the deck of the DOLLY when we went on a cruise
on Canyon Lake in Arizona last month.

Wendy, Randy, Lloyd and I enjoying our cruise.

I have lots more scrapbooking to do, but I've promised myself I'd complete some self-imposed chores first.  I'm off to get started.