Dear Scrapbook Room, oh how I've missed your original purpose!

When we first looked at this house 6 years ago, I was sooo excited! At the time we were living in a 3 bedroom, 1500 sq. ft house. We had one living room that was filled with a ball pit, tool bench, ride-on toys, and a big screen tv. All the bedrooms were spoken for, so my scrapbooking supplies were neatly tucked away in an armoire in our bedroom.

About that time, my good friend Amy Lomshek and I would regularly attend open houses! We joked we'd be those old ladies that always came, but never bought. That we would have been inside every house in Pittsburg when all was said and done. Well, one open house we came to Woodland Terrace. We gave our own self-guided tour since we were regulars and the Realtors gave up on us. And after dragging Eric back with me, and showing him the potential for a really cool "Man's Cave" in the basement, we put in an offer.

I was so excited. It had 4 bedrooms, so we'd have an "extra" and it had a small room down in the basement. I immediately claimed it for my scraproom! It had UGLY pink rose carpet, but I didn't care. I was going to have a place I could decorate as "girly" as I wanted and let my creative juices flow!!! That was the PLAN anyways. So I painted it, decorated it, and organized it. I was all set up to scrapbook! And then......I never did.

Since buying this gem of a house (That has cost us a new hot water tank, air condition unit, plumbing the kitchen sink, fixing cracks in the basement so water would stop running down our walls, and now new siding.) I haven't really used MY room for it's original purpose. I haven't even finished Cooper's 1st year album, let alone started on the other two boys' books. (You know, the two boys that took away our "extra" room and has forced someone to share living quarters.)

So while my husband is in Las Vegas for "work" with his good friend and boss, I'm going to tackle my scraproom and attempt to get back to the hobby that I use to enjoy so much. I'm going to print pictures and break out the papers I bought over 3 years ago for that perfect double page spread. The kids enjoy looking back at their albums (or at least Cade does, since his is the only one done.) so I want to finish them FOR them. Sorry daughters-in-law, the boys will be coming with albums!

"MY" room has been taken over by bills, toys, paperwork, and is a catch-all for everything we own it seems. And that cute little kid in the picture, he doesn't help things much. So here's to a week of cleaning and hopefully scrapping! If nothing else, we'll all be more comfortable hanging out in "my" room when the tornado sirens go off! Enjoy your week!