Vacation's Almost Over

I have one more day off before I go back to work. We have two days of inservice, then the students come back on Monday, January 8. That's a full week, then we're out January 15 to celebrate Dr. King's birthday. My sister, her children (and I include her son-in-law in that group; he's a treasure), and I have scheduled a work weekend at Mother's house. We hope to get some things into the storage building and maybe get rid of some other things. I am still waiting on the death certificate to be ready--there's so much to be done, but nothing can be done until it's official and legal. We have insurance claims to file, assets to transfer, and property to sell...but it's still hurry up and wait.

I have a few more thank you notes to write. It's taken longer than I planned, but I made all the note cards. I don't think I had as many to write as Mother and I did after Daddy died, but there are also Christmas notes to be written. I hope to get that done today and have all that ready to go out in tomorrow's mail. I want to get started on my great-niece's album of pictures made with her Gran--Mother was so pleased that she lived long enough to see her first great-grandchild, and I took as many pictures as I could of the two of them. I have one of those Kodak 11 x 8.5 landscrape albums that we all found at Big Lots for $5.00, and I've picked out twenty pictures of Mother and the baby. In fact, I think I already have the background papers in the album, so the next step would be picking out mattes for the pictures (I have a compulsion to mat every picture that I put into a scrapbook). The journaling will be facts about Mother that the baby needs to know as she grows up, and I probably need to print some pictures of Mother and Daddy together, too.

My new photo printing service is Walgreen's. The first reason is because they are one of the default choices that came with my new computer. The service was fast and reasonable, and one of our local Walgreen stores is near Walmart, Hobby Lobby, and Office Max (what more could I ask?). The third--and possibly best--reason is that my BIL works at the other local Walgreen store. He and my sister live less than a block from DH and me, and BIL will bring my pictures home to me if I call him and tell him that they're being printed. That's like home delivery without having to pay delivery charges.

Time to put on "real" clothes, make a pot of coffee, get another load of laundry started, and get my digital camera workshop ready for Thursday (or is it for Friday?).