Just Scrapping & Spring & Bathroom Babbles

Last night I had an urge to just scrap--for me. No goals for my blog readers, no freebies or videos for people at my site--just for me. I got almost 7 layouts done! I have just a few events from 2006 I'm trying to finish so I can call that year done. These layouts last night were from a family reunion and Christmas and have way too many faces in them to feel comfortable sharing on the internet. That's one reason they are the last to get done. It felt good to just scrap for fun!

Tuesday my Hyacinths began to bloom. They look really sad this year. I'm not sure if it is because of the ice storms and flooding or if they did not get enough nutrients last year. I may throw some fertilizer on them this weekend. They use the nutrients after they bloom as the leaves die back while preparing for next year. I just don't think to fertilize when its so cold outside.










My Forsithia bush also started to bloom the same day. It doesn't look to be affected too much by the bad weather. The green is already coming out though, two days later. The blooms seem short lived.











A few weeks ago we got all of our leaves out of the front yard and, as always, I knew it was useless. Why do I even bother? Until all the neighbors clean up the leaves in their yards, the pile just accumlates again from their yards. It frustrates me every year. I wish my neighbors did a better work on their yards.

I also heard by first lawn mower yesterday. It sounded odd--out of place. I am reminded that our lawn mower stopped running the end of last year and I'm torn as to whether or not we should pay a lot of money to have it fixed as it is 5 or 6 years old, or if we should just invest in a new one. Hubby wants to get a Lawn Boy, but I'm not sure I can justify that cost. Are they really all that better than other lawn mowers? I'd love to have your opinions.


This toothpaste has been greeting me every morning for two weeks and totally irking me until I put it back out of site. Why does my hubbie do this? Really. He opens a new tube of toothpaste and starts using it before the old one is used. I've been using the old one for two weeks now and still getting paste out of it. I often wonder if I weren't here if partially empty containers of all sorts of supplies would just gather about the house. He does this with everything. He never throws out anything. Of course, it would be a waste to throw out good toothpaste, but he just doesn't want to use the end of the tube for some reason.

I just cannot get hubbie to clean up his act. This empty tube of paste is nearly dead. Why doesn't he continue to breath life into it?

It reminds me of how God probably looks at me. Why doesn't she clean up her act? She's nearly dead, why should I continue to breath life into her?

Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, "I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin"?

I know hubbie's actions frustrate me, but I am reminded that I too sin and must frustrate God in the same way. Whenever others frustrate me, just turning my focus on what a horrible sinner I am helps to take that frustrations away. I am thankful that Jesus died on the cross to truly wash away all of my sins. Because I believe in what He did for me, I can know that I am clean. He could look at me as a hopeless case that would never get her act together, but instead He loves me and breaths new life into me daily. Isn't our God awesome?

Yes, this has turned into another issue in my series of Bathroom Babbles. If you haven't read them, you can find them here on my blog. I'm not sure why I gain such inspiration in my bathroom. There's humor in that. Maybe some day I'll have a mini book to publish.