Besides hanging out with them on the beach at Assateague Island, I'd have to say I'm enjoying snack time. Lately I've been indulging their ice cream requests and we all sit together at the kitchen table and talk about their day.

Ugh, you're going to make me spend money?

Okay first I would call up a real estate agent and make her find me a big huge house on like 10 acres of land somewhere in the Midwest within 15 minutes of an interstate and no further than half an hour to a Target and craft store. There, that's like $500,000 (land can still be cheap out in the Midwest). Then I'd go buy a $100,000 gift card at the Home Depot for renovations of the house. And contact a breeder for a herd of mini-cows.

Next I would fly myself to New York City (although Chicago came in a really close second here, it would probably depend on my mood) and rent a limo to find a lovely day spa to have my hair cut and colored, manicure, pedicure, and make-up. Back to the limo for shopping! I do need a new wardrobe and with all this money, I'll just pay someone to pick out the clothes for me and I'd try them on while sipping champagne and knitting.

All meals will be lavish with chocolate desserts. I'll catch at least one Broadway show, having the best seat in the house. I'll go to a book store and just buy everything that interests me to keep me stocked in reading material for years. I'll go to an art gallery and buy a piece that "speaks to me." And probably after purchasing the art, I'll be out of money and ready to go home anyways.

I think my system is probably a bit odd but it works for me. I have two laundry baskets in my bedroom that everyone dumps their clothes into (with reminders. And Greg always misses with his socks. *rolls eyes*) These two baskets usually fill up every 3 or 4 days so then I have a "Laundry Day." I sort on my bedroom floor: whites, lights/pastels, jeans, darks, Greg's work shirts, and towels. I like Tide powder (original) and occasionally use Downy fabric softener (I think it overpowers the clothes too much if I use it every load). Stain stick for stains and when I think about it, I toss a little bit of oxiclean in with the whites. I'm kinda lax about dryer sheets too (actually I think I'm out at the moment).

As the clothes come out of the dryer, I dump everything on the family room sofa and do one big fold at the end of the day. I fold into piles by clothing owner, for example all Zach's shirts in one stack right next to all Zach's pants next to his socks and underwear. Then I carry each kid's set of clothes up to their rooms and put it away in their chest of drawers (the boys share one, the girls share two, Greg and I share one). I don't fold socks or underwear, I'm a big fan of "stacks". Each kid has their own type of sock and only one type of sock so no matching is required.

So then all the laundry has been washed, dried, folded, and put away in one day. Even though laundry is probably my favorite household chore, I don't want to do it every day. I'd rather have one long day of pushing every through and not have to worry about it for a few days. I wash the bedding the same way, one big day of it every couple weeks. (I wish I could be disciplined enough to do it once a week but yeah, not happening at the moment.)

Yes. And I love you for it. :)

Um... I still need to finish up Christmas 2003, I have everything, I just need to sit down and put the pages together. Next I have Emily and Ally's 1st lost tooth pages, this picture, Easter 2004, and Summer 2004. I already have the pictures in hand for all those. Once these are done, it's time for the Disney World layouts!

Right next to you, of course! Actually some place like I described in the "$1 million in 24 hours" question: a big house on some land/farm in the Midwest close to an interstate, Target, and craft store. I'm sure that place exists. No particular town jumps out at me, I just like the Midwest to be close to family and friends.

Actually the majority of Indiana, Kentucky, and Michigan are also on Eastern time and so "most" of the Midwest is on Eastern time. Here's the goofy thing about these states: they like to pretend they are important enough to New York City and Washington DC that they need to be in the Eastern time zone for business reasons. I think "Midwest" stands more for the type of people there (generally conservative white lower to middle class blue and white collar workers) than the location. The people of Ohio are more like Indiana and Michigan residents than say another Eastern time zone state like Massachusetts.

Mountain Dew! Wait, that's a drink. I would have to go with chicken. I'm a big fan of any type of chicken.

I do not have a scrapbook room although I'd really love to have a craft room at some point. In the beginning I had an Iris cart with all my supplies and I'd sit at the dining room table to scrap. Then Greg bought this awesome big desk (I think for himself but I kinda took it over, hehe) and I kept my supplies in an empty TV amoire and Iris cart by the desk. However since moving to the Maryland house (that picture is from the Ohio house), I don't have quite the same set up (i.e. the TV amoire is in another room and the Iris cart is in a closet) so my scrapbook supplies aren't as handy.

So... I actually usually scrapbook on the family room coffee table. I grab my pictures, paper, my fiskars trimmer, a plain tupperware-like plastic container with pens, glues, scissors, and any other accents and sit on the floor of the family room. I'm also getting into scrapbook store crops too.