Friday, March 14, 2008

I appreciate all of the input on the MS stuff. I certainly have a lot of decisions to make over the next few weeks. I'm going scrapbooking with the neighborhood ladies tonight. I'm hoping to get caught up using all of the collab kit quick pages I have from the collab kit quick page exchange at GDS! Of course, I usually do more eating and chatting than scrapping!!

My template grab bag #03 is going into reveal mode after the weekend! Right now, the price is $2.00 and it will be $6.00 after the weekend, so this is your chance to pick it up before the price increases:

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Current price $2.00...$6.00 value!
>>Buy it here.<<
Price changes to $6.00 Monday!!!

Here is a free template for you:

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Thanks for the comments!!

29 comments:

CathyK Designs said...

Thanks so much for the awesome template!

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the template!

Stephanie (schock77) said...

We also have "toy jail" at our house- and the newly discovered, ultra-effective "video game jail"! Ha ha!

Thanks for the template!

Anonymous said...

Thanks for sharing!

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the rectangles!

Tami said...

Thanks for the great template!

Anonymous said...

great page! We have a toy jail here too! LOL! We call it toy time out, but it is also located in the trunk of hubby's car! How funny!! Thanks for the template.

Anonymous said...

Thank You for todays Template. It's nice to see pitures of your kids.

Unknown said...

Wonderful template Andrea. Off to download it and pop over to get your special Thanks.

Melissa said...

We have a toy jail too... its the top shelf of the closet in my room. I bought a small mini laundry basket for the "jail". Our kids have to earn back the toys too. I call it the jail and bail system. :) Whatever works right?

Anonymous said...

Toy time out sounds like a great idea, thank you so much for the template :) hsmema

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the template, Andrea.

Anonymous said...

Great LO of you and your family Andrea. Thanks for the template:)

MiKiko.

Bonnie said...

I use a combination of taking my daughter's toys away and sending her to her room, depending on the offense. Thanks for the template today. I always love anything with stars, especially multi-photo templates.

Karen M in FL said...

Thanks for another great freebie

verabear said...

THanks for the template. More importantly, thanks for sharing your awesome layout.

Oh, Toy Jail sounds very sensible. :)

Anonymous said...

Love your templates! Thank you. I just discovered your site the other day. I'm sad that other downloads have expired. I'll have to keep checking back often!
=)

Thanks again!

Anonymous said...

I have MS, only diagnosed 2.5 years ago but started showing symtoms five years before that. I have been on copaxone. I made that decision because I didn't want to feel crappy one or two days a week. Many people don't have that problem with the other drugs but I didn't want to take the chance. If I took it on the weekend, I'd screw my family, if I took it during the week, I'd screw my job. It is NO BIG deal to take a shot every day. Copaxone will send a nurse to train you. The autoinject system is so easy. I was somewhat older than most when diagnosed (45). I would be happy to "talk" to you if you would like (lynner4@aol.com). Really its no big deal (other than the huge expense)

Sharon Kay said...

I don't know how you can continue to create such great templates all the time...but I'm sure glad you can!

I never thought of using the trunk as the toy jail...heh heh they can't sneak them back out that way...good thought!

We just take away the video game PLUG when they aren't doing what they are supposed to be doing. lol The only other toys they play with are LEGOS and that is TOO MUCH WORK for me to pick up to punish. lol

Joanne said...

Thank you for the creative template..should be a fun one..

Terebene said...

Thanks for the templates. I wanted to add that everyone with MS is different. Input is great but how the drugs work is very individualized and may be totally different for you. Good luck!

Anonymous said...

Hi Andrea,

Thanks for all your great templates.

My FIL has MS although it hasn't been affecting him too much lately. I know someone very involved with this website: http://www.direct-ms.org/
He is a big advocate of Vitamin D helping to reduce the effects of MS. He does use a cane, or occasionally a "segway" to get around, but knows he'd be much worse without the vitamin D. Another option is to try staying away from wheat and gluten for a while. Many people with celiac disease (an intolerance to gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye, oats, barley, and malt) who have neurological symptoms have lesions on their brain, similar to MS. It might be worth looking into.

Anonymous said...

thanks for sharing!

Jan said...

Love this template, Andrea. Thank you. Keeping you in my prayers.

Anonymous said...

This is great. Thanks so much.
mmikes

grambie said...

It is so nice how you do the toy jail bit with your little ones when they have stretched your tolerance. Yes, children do sense moods and definitely act accordingly. I went right over and purchased your grabbag 3. I have to check and hope that I haven't purchased something I already have. Talk about folders. So far, you have a full folder dated 2007. I didn't download every template download because for medical reasons, I missed quite a few. So now, a year folder is within my three major folders. Regular templates, double-page templates, and purchased templates. I just purchased your grabbag 3 and know there will be fabulous template goodies included. I have 1 and 2 already.

It is so nice to see you scrap your templates with your wonderful family photos. Love the left-page fold on your double-page template 11 along with your trademark stars. Now, to return to GDS to leave a few comments and to pick up the sketch for the challenge. Oh my goodness, now to find 5 photos that match. One day, I hope to be able to take my own photos, Yeah right. Leavin LUV! XOXOXO

nancypinct said...

Andrea - how do you do all this with a family and illness? You are quite a role model! I have lupus and the first thing I thought of while reading your post was find a support group. Ask your doctor for others to talk to. Check with your local visiting nurse assoc to find a buddy to help you with this. I have a friend and I will try to get her email through another person. thank you so much for the great template! Sending (((((hugs))))

Andrea said...

Thank you so much for Sharing!

Hugbuggal said...

Thank you for sharing!

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My Little Ironies

  • I just had to tell my daughter that there was little probability that she could do eighty chores in two hours and 10 minutes to earn a giant lot of pet shops on Ebay that she wants to earn before the auction closes. That's at two chores per dollar. :)
  • We are helping my father sell an old vehicle and what do we find in the glove box...an unused 12 guage shotgun shell...that's my Dad!!
  • How does a three year old end up at church with no underwear on, especially when you dressed him and you know he had underwear on at one point during the morning?
  • The root of all toilet clogging evil is apparently a ball point pen and it's nearly impossible to dislodge one of those from the inside of a toilet.
  • You know you have to do some serious laundry when you actually consider wearing your 11 year old daughter's Hannah Montana shirt.
  • My 6 year old daughter got a comb stuck in her hair and we had to cut the comb into little bits to get it out of her hair.
  • My kids keep breaking the toilet seats! I guess I need a bulk package of those too!
  • Chocolate chips are not a food group.
  • My toilet seat says "Hailee" on it!
  • If there's work to be done, all of the kids need to use the bathroom or get a drink.
  • All two-year-olds think the baby swing is for them!
  • When you have 6 kids, carpet is your enemy!
  • You know you have a large family when your grocery receipt is 4 feet long.
  • The toilet is clogged and my husband found a plastic easter egg in the pipe.
  • My daughter just asked me if she can put chocolate sprinkles on here melted cheese sandwich (really???)
  • I burned up another hard drive on my PC! Can I buy a bulk package of those too?
  • Well actually, my sand pile is full of socks and silverware!
  • My sand pile is full of socks!
  • The key to my treadmill is missing again...can I just purchase a bulk package of them???
  • I fixed my daughter's glasses with JB Weld!
  • I have a pile of sand on my leather couch.
  • My daughter lost her glasses in the snow on the way home from school in January. Someone found them in March and turned them into the school office! Amazingly enough, the school remembered we lost them in January. Wow!
  • Just when I think he knows better, my 10 year old son plugs the bathroom sink and the emergency drain in the sink basin to soak his grow creature, turns on the water, and forgets about it until we notice water flooding out from under the bathroom door! And yes, he locked the door so no one would bother the grow creature!!
  • It's time for another worn out pair of the hubby's pants to disappear! Aren't kids suppose to be the only ones who are attached to clothing?
  • My 4 year old says she needs "peace and quite"!!!!!
  • My Husband says there's a perfectly good reason for the leatherman being in my dish drainer.
  • I have a leatherman (fancy pocket knife) in my dish drainer. I don't know why.
  • My kids are storing a tumble weed in my garage for the winter!
  • My 10 year old son informed me that people have only discovered about half of the world's caves (thank you BBC and planet earth!)
  • My baby's car seat is full of finely crushed graham crackers (?? Little babies don't eat graham crackers)!
  • My husband's shoes are filled with Mr. Potato Head parts!
  • My two year old thinks the new baby swing is for him! He can even climb in by himself and work all the controls. Boy, does he have a rude awakening coming!!
  • I have a giant mud hole in my back yard.
  • My vacuum is fully of plastic easter grass.
  • My kids are too full to finish their dinner, but they have plenty of room left for cake!
  • I have a giant laundry basket full of socks, and we can't find a single match!
  • Miscellaneous items found while cleaning out my kids' toy box include a flashlight, rocks (no suprise), a sea shell (we don't live by the sea), a drill bit, a stapler, and some tree bark!
  • My daughter's medical bills added up to about $18,000, but we got a free sippy cup and a ball signed by the Utah JAZZ Dancers!
  • I put safety locks on the tops of my outside doors to keep my three year old from escaping and she figured out how to open them with a broom in approximately five minutes.
  • I bought the EXPENSIVE vacuum this time only to find that my 3-year-old took it apart with a screwdriver!
  • I haven't showered for 3 days, but my house is clean!
  • I have 38 winter gloves of various sizes in my coat closet and none of them match.
  • We're out of peanut butter because my husband used the rest to catch a mouse in our garage!
  • Yes, my son won 1st place in the science fair at school, but he didn't turn in half of his assignments this term?
  • No matter how many toys my toddler got for Christmas, I still find him in the middle of my kitchen floor sitting in my crock pot!

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