Man, oh man, oh man.....I woke up on Saturday morning thinking to myself that I have to stop this wild partying....and WHY did I have to have that last drink. Was I crazy?!?!........But, then, just as the post-party fog started to lift and I managed to crawl out of bed, I thought to myself....wait a minute. Just wait a darn pickin' minute here. Not only did I NOT have a last drink. I wasn't drinking at all. What did I do again last night?? ......oh, yes. That's right. We went to Chuck E. Cheese for a birthday party for one of Carlos's classmates. Man....I haven't felt this way since I went to a Duran Duran concert in '87. I'm so old.
But, I have to say, after I came to terms with the fact that I had a hangover from a children's pizza place, I had a most creatively productive weekend. I took the boys swimming all day at my best friend's house where they just put in a beautiful new pool. (and, just for the record we have been best friends for the past 35 years...not just because she has a pool. Although, I think I will now start describing her as my bestest' friend in the whole wide world to everyone......)
Anyway, let me just give you an equation that equals pure happiness for Karin....... 2 exhausted kids + 1 not feeling well husband -divided by- everyone in bed AND ASLEEP by 8:00pm = One happy momma! You have to understand that on most nights the kids aren't in bed until 8:30....and, then, of course, we have the usual 10 minutes of "somebody's breathing under my bed"......"I'm still hungry"......."mommy, can you get to Lego island by bus?"
...... and, then, once both are finally down, I usually get the kitchen clean and things ready for the next day of school. After that, it's usually well past 9:00pm and I'm pretty much done for the day. At that point, I either want to plop on the couch and watch a mind numbing episode of Supernanny or read a stack of magazines. But not Saturday night. No siree!!! I was on a roll.....So I sat myself down and just started creating.
First, I did these two cards and was ready to call it quits right then and there. Have you ever created something you were so unhapppy about that it sucked all the excitement out 
of you? Well, these two cards did it for me. I don't know why. Maybe because they are so dark? Or, I just felt like I was using the paper to use it. Or it was the design? I don't know..... Somehow, someway, it just didn't work for me. Whatever the case was, I knew I was heading down the wrong path. So, I tossed them aside and continued to work like a crazy professor of craft in my lab....paper flying everywhere......glue sticks working overtime.....glitter cover the floor. And I came up with these.....I'm happy now.
