More life changes

So, it's been awhile. Summer gets busy and especially now when it's close to school starting up again. Can you believe it's just a couple more weeks?

We have something new possibly happening in our lives. We kept saying we wouldn't do this if we had Martie in the house...and look at us now. We are working on getting it done. What am I talking about? Getting a foreign exchange student.

It's not for sure yet. In fact we should find out by tomorrow if the girl wants to come to our small town. Martie is so excited. She's ready to have a "sister" in the house with her.

The girl we picked is from Norway. So it will be interesting to learn about her culture. And I hope she enjoys learning about our way of life. I think it will be a great learning experience for all of us. And of course Scott and I vowed we would not have another teenager in our house....I guess that's what happens when you say "never".

So, I'll keep you all posted on the possible new member of the "Musical Soodsmas".

What's another life change? Well, this one isn't for certain. It depends on how gutsy I get. I want to, but sometimes I get a little scared of failing. But I guess the only certain way of failing is not trying at all.

I love scrapbooking. It's my release from life and it gets my creative juices flowing. I love to watch the pages turn from nothing to something beautiful.

I want to create pages or even books to sell on e-bay or locally or wherever. But more than that I would like to offer a service for those people who have boxes of photos that are not even sorted. I would like to charge a fee for helping them sort thru their photos, and if they would like me to, I can scrapbook them personally. That is if they don't like to or have the time to scrapbook themselves, and don't want just a generic pre-made scrapbook.

This is something I have done for my mom. She likes to have scrapbooks of her photos, but she's not really into (and doesn't have the time to) scrapbook them herself. We have sat down and organized the photos. She tells me what they are (if I'm not certain) and then I get the supplies and scrapbook it all for her.

Now, of course for her I do it for free because I never thought of doing it as a business. And maybe it won't even work to do that as a business. I mean, maybe people won't want someone else scrapbooking their stuff. But boy would it be the perfect job for me. I can stay at home, and set aside certain times of the day and just scrapbook my heart away.

I guess if there's anyone out there that reads this that has a comment about whether or not this business would work, let me know. I will at least try to sell pre-made books and pages on e-bay and stuff if nothing else.

Who knows, maybe this is the start to a great booming business.....or maybe it's just me dreaming a dream. I guess we'll see.

So now that I've updated you all on how the "Musical Soodsmas" are doing and what's happening...I guess I'm done here for now. I hope to get some feedback about my new venture.

God bless you all. Remember how much He loves you!