Like Scrapbooking (only less satisfying)

     I used to scrapbook.  Both of my children have beautiful baby books that I spent hours (and weekends) putting together.  When Luz passed away (October 2008) I stopped scrapbooking.  The first year was overwhelming and scrapbooking all those birthdays and holidays without her . . . well, there was no joy in that. 

     We're in the process of cleaning out our house this summer.  We're pulling things out of closets and drawers that haven't seen the light of day in a long time.  I guess this process could best be described as purging.  After two years of not being able to let go of anything that belonged to my mother-in-law or my grandmother (who died in August 2008) I'm ready to let some stuff go - including (maybe) my traditional approach to scrapbooking.  Because here's the thing about scrapbooking - it's labor intensive and messy and it encourages hoarding.  I don't need anything that encourages hoarding right now. 
So, I'm going to blog about some of those things that I don't want to forget and maybe someday in the future I'll print them out and add them to the childrens scrapbooks because their scrapbooks are important to me.  The kids like them too.  Every now and then one of them will pull out one of their scrapbooks and ask me to sit on the couch and go through it. That alone makes all the hours of work worthwhile.  Now, on to the thing I don't want to forget.

      Sarah is starting a band.  She hasn't settled on a name for her band but she has written their first song - "Rainbows."  She sang it to me and asked me what I thought.  It was pretty good, although the tune sounds a lot like that "Airplanes" song. She also said, and I am quoting her here, "It's going to be the first cut off my new album."  She's writing  her second song, "Sunset", sometime this weekend.