Firstly the toot - I have had a digital layout accepted for Scrapbook Trends magazine! I love this US magazine with it's cool, smaller format and the book-like quality is so lovely. I am so excited to have a layout appearing in this great mag.
The last week has been busy, busy, busy and I have done very little scrapping. I have been preparing for Rich and Jarred to go to Thailand on Sunday. Rich is traveling with a group from Church who are continuing work on an orphanage we established some time ago. He is also teaching English to a few different groups and is working with Compassion with a project for babies and children who's parents have died from AIDS. This is his second year going with this group and he has a great passion for what they do there.
This year we have decided to send Jarred along too. He will miss a few weeks of school (first year high school) but we feel the benefits of traveling with Rich will far outweigh any lost school time. It will be an eye opening and life changing experience for him and I know that he will have a greater appreciation for life here in Australia when he returns. He has his camera and travel diary all ready to document his trip for his scrapbooking Mother!
I was able to travel to the Ipswich train museum with Connor's kindy class this week. It was a great day and Connor was so excited! He is train mad and loved the museum. There was a circus theme happening while we were there and we saw clown shows, played dress-ups and rode the train. Lots of fun! There's Connor in the red hat.He couldn't understand why he couldn't drive...maybe next time ;)
Lucky Jarred!
ReplyDeleteIt is such a beautiful country and he will gain so much from going there, especially seeing what Compassion do.
I am going in Feb to spend some time around smaller communities in the north!
Congrats on the LO too!
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