Essie119

@Essie119 (673)

Canada • Age 49

Joined myLot 16 years ago

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Using the clothesline!

Essie119 @Essie119 (673) • Canada 24 Sep 08

We had so much rain this summer that I was forced to use the electric dryer. I really hate to use it during the summer, but we had a whole month with only a couple rain-free days and I have three kids. This month it is beautiful...

clothes

sun

wind

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4 people

Do you let your children in your bed?

Essie119 @Essie119 (673) • Canada 22 Sep 08

If one of my kids wakes in the night I usually go get them and then let them fall back to sleep in my bed. I find that it calms them down quickly and then when they are asleep again we carry them back to their own bed. Some of my...

own beds

sleeping

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2 people

National Anthems at Sporting Events

Essie119 @Essie119 (673) • Canada 7 Sep 08

I'm watching the Women's finals on the US Open Tennis match. I love watching sports and hearing the National Anthems at the start of games. I especially like the Canadian one of course, but feel that any national anthem should be...

singing

sports

Doing a favour for family.

Essie119 @Essie119 (673) • Canada 6 Sep 08

Five years ago I told a relative that I would store some things for her. She was moving to temporary residence and wouldn't have space for all her things. Now, half a decade later, she has finally moved into a place that should be...

family

favours

regret

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3 people

How often do you scraplift a layout?

Essie119 @Essie119 (673) • Canada 6 Sep 08

Sometimes when I need a little bit of inspiration I'll check out what others have done. I have numerous magazines and books filled with beautiful pages. By the time I take a basic idea and change the papers, theme, and...

books

inspiration

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4 people

Computer journaling or handwritten?

Essie119 @Essie119 (673) • Canada 25 Aug 08

I've been doing a lot of my scrapbooking upstairs lately, because I like to be on the same floor as the kids while they are sleeping. Because the PC with the printer is downstairs, I've been writing a lot of my journaling by hand....

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1 person

All things being equal ........

Essie119 @Essie119 (673) • Canada 12 Aug 08

Here I go again with the picture questions. Those of you who are mothers and grandmothers; do you have the same number of pictures of all your kids? My mom didn't have a camera when my youngest sister was little, so there are...

camera

children

pictures

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1 person

How much of you is there in your books?

Essie119 @Essie119 (673) • Canada 10 Aug 08

I was looking through my pictures the other day, and made a discovery. There are very few pictures of me with the kids, or by myself. There are a few from when the kids were first born and we are still in the hospital, but after...

including me

pictures

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2 people

The best layed plans ......

Essie119 @Essie119 (673) • Canada 8 Aug 08

Well, it has happened again. It is nice and sunny while my husband is at work, but as soon as it's time for him to come home with the van, it starts to rain. I wanted to take the kids to the park so they could run off some of...

1 response

Describe the page that means the most to you.

Essie119 @Essie119 (673) • Canada 7 Aug 08

Most of us have done a lot of pages, but there are ones that stick in our minds. Whether it is because of the technique used or the subject matter of which you are making a permanent memory. So far, my favourite is one I did...

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3 people

Food for starving people

Essie119 @Essie119 (673) • Canada 16 Jun 08

I was on a different site and someone posted a link for free rice. www.freerice.com is a site where you answer questions (definitions of english words). For every correct answer you donate 20 grains of rice to needy people. It has...

children

food

rice

5 responses

How do you relax?

Essie119 @Essie119 (673) • Canada 15 Jun 08

When the kids are in bed and the housework is finished, what do you like to do? If I have the energy to do anything besides read and watch TV, then I love to scrapbook. I find playing with the pretty papers and the pictures so fun...

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1 person

Are your parents from the same country?

Essie119 @Essie119 (673) • Canada 12 Jun 08

My mother was born in Canada and has lived here all her life. My father was born in the Netherlands and immigrated to Canada when he was 19. They met, fell in love and were married 8 months later. They are still happily married....

countries

married

parents

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Mini-books

Essie119 @Essie119 (673) • Canada 30 May 08

Does anyone like doing the little 8 - 12 page scrapbooks? Since my kids are so little sometimes I do these for their grandparents and aunts. They always seem to be a welcome present.

gifts

mini

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2 people

What is the age difference between your children?

Essie119 @Essie119 (673) • Canada 29 May 08

My kids are really close in age. There is almost 17 months between the first two, and almost twenty months between the second and third. Someone told me the other day that they were too close in age - that it would be better for...

age difference

children

development

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7 people

Sleeping Through The Night

Essie119 @Essie119 (673) • Canada 22 May 08

My oldest two slept through the night when they were around four months old. My baby is only two months old and he eats at 10 PM and then wakes up to eat around 3AM and then 6AM. I've never minded getting up to feed a baby, but...

babies

sleep

tired

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2 people