How has your Lent been going?

I started out with a whole bunch of things I was going to do, but ended up only doing the one thing – getting up every weekday morning at 5:45 and not hitting the snooze button. While I had all kinds of other things on my list, I’m pretty happy with this one. Although, I will be glad for spring break next week where I can sleep in, I am proud of myself for getting up that early every morning. I think I might try to keep it up when school goes back after spring break. I might even get up during spring break. I really enjoyed my early morning time alone.

We had a conference with the Boy’s teacher this morning. He’s on track for going to first grade if only because they can’t hold him back another year. However, he will be getting some special attention and some “resources” attention, meaning he’ll be taken out of class a couple of times a week and put in a smaller reading class to help him with his attention span and general overall reinforcement of some issues.

He’s a bright kid and doesn’t really need help with his reading, which is what we told them this morning (I don’t think they see how well he’s reading. We see it at home when he reads to us but in a classroom setting, I think he might get a little lost.), but they said it’s not just for that. It’s more for the confidence and all that. The principal said they want him to be a leader and are trying to work on making him want to be a leader, too. I’m actually pretty happy with that.

He’s on Day Five of the “Monsters vs. Aliens” “prize package.” If he gets a green or a yellow at school today, he’ll get to go to the movies with Daddy, probably Saturday. Maybe he’ll even get pizza and he definitely will get a bunch of his toys back.

I’ve edited eleven chapters of Sword & Illusion and am waiting for Beloved to pronounce them finished. I’m trying to outline the next book in the series, but it’s not coming easily. I have a couple of other places this “saga” will eventually go, so I might work on one of those books instead.

We’re still waiting to hear from Baen, and that’s getting a little annoying because it’s been three weeks since they said they were going to read it, but I guess I don’t know what goes on inside a publishing house.

Well, tomorrow is Good Friday, and the Good Friday Blog Train will leave the station.

I know it seems kinda weird to have a scrapbook kit just for Good Friday. I mean, I don’t know about you, but I don’t take a lot of pictures of Good Friday, but actually those of us participating just wanted to have a kit that was more religious in nature for this holy time.

I hope you come back tomorrow and download the stuff. I plan to have a few QPs done of a couple of my kits to give away next week!

Rules for the Easter Egg Hunt

1. Visit each participant to receive their portion of the the Easter Blog Train.

2. Make sure you leave some luv when download *LOL*

3. Unzip all your new goodies and look for the Magic Egg.

The Magic Egg has been randomly placed in 2 of the zips. One egg will contain a coupon for $2 off a $10 or more purcase at Michelles-Angels store.

The other Magic Egg will contain a coupon for 20% off your entire purchase at the store. *Only one coupon redeemable at a time* Coupons has no limit on how many times you may use it until June 1st.

4. Make a purchase using one of the found coupons!

*BONUS*

Make a LO or Tag using items from the Blog Train and post your creation in our Gallery, in the folder Called Easter Egg Hunt Contest, between May 1st and May 20th. BE SURE to credit the designer(s) who created the items you use!

Beginning May 21st we will be voting for the top 3 layouts. Register in the forum to vote for your favorites.

*PRIZES*

1st Place – $10 Store Gift Certificate

2nd Place – $5 Store Gift Certificate

3rd Place – $2 Store Gift Certificate

Blog Train and Contest will run April 1st thru May 31th. Winners will be announced on the Store Blog on June 1st.

Here’s my contribution. I call it Easter Dress because the colors just said that to me. I hope you like it. Download links are at the end of this post.

Don’t forget to visit all these places and say hi!

1. Store blog
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4. JIC Creations
5. Digiscrapations
6. Baby Cakes Scraps
7. Lady Snowflake’s Designs
8. Scraps and More by Ginavere
9. Mystical Designz
10. Lady Saphira
11. Throwing Some Scraps Around
12. RomanceChick Designs – YOU ARE HERE!
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14. Zee’s Designs
15. Eclipse’s Creations
16. Digi Cyber Scraps
17. Eye Opening Designs
18. Nip’s Creations
19. AngLaRue Creations
20. Desert Bloom Designs
21. Elegant WordArt by Bethany
22. Foxylady Creations
23. CandysTreasures
24. Tootlebugz
25. Lei
26. Tiffany’s Treasures
27. DebsDesign
28. Katzscrapz
29. Oase
30. Designs by Teri
31. PSP Scrapper
32. JTsDesigns
33. Liv Luvs Scraps
34. MJH Designs
35. jbs2designs
36. Lindas Dream Designs
37. A-Design by Lena
38. Lorri’s Scraps
39. All Things Digi
40. Becky’s Scrap Freebies
41. Scrappin with Lil Ole Me
42. Muriel’s Scrapbits
43. Digital Scrap Fun
44. Our This – N – That
45. DazzlingScraps
46. Candie’s Creations
47. Munchkyn Scraps
48. Maggies Scrap
49.TaggingAngelsNScraps
50. Crafty Scraps
51. Marian

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