It is hard to believe that it is already the middle of June. Summer is already here, the kids are out of school, and the summer activities schedule is filling up quickly. June is always really busy for us personally, and it always goes by too fast. I am glad that both Jeffrey and I like to have the camera around to capture everything as it goes by. We end up taking so many photos. As a result, I am walking around all the time, thinking of scrapbooking opportunities, not only when I take my photos, by I am thinking about the pages that I want to make, the journaling that I want to do, and well, I am just always looking for a few spare hours to do some of these pages. The summer is just so busy, each day filled with something to do. I am determined to make time to scrapbook this summer. I still have yet to scrapbook a lot of the photos we took last summer.

Which makes me think about how much deeper I am getting into the ever growing pile of photos and memories that I mean to record. At times, it becomes overwhelming. I have too many pages to make, too many things to get down on paper. I am overwhelmed at the thought of all the occassions that I haven't yet even considered. Birthdays, parties, children's programs, the start and end of school years, school photos, Two Peas events, and most important, the everyday life that we tend to record most. Every time I look in my computer database for a set of pictures to work on next, I am overwhelmed looking at all the things I need to do. I will never forget, years ago, in the first years of Two Peas, a post from a user on a thread about this very topic. What she posted has stuck in my brain, and I will never ever forget it. In not so many words she posted that she is so happy to be never near an end, always with so many more pages to make, because her daughter had died at the age of 16. She said that if she ever did get to an end of her photos, that it would be so very hard for her. I think about this user and her post every time I get to the point that I am overwhelmed. I hope she doesn't mind my sharing her story, I just feel that her words of wisdom were so very moving and made everything that I scrapbook more meaningful to me. It gives me new purpose and makes me forget the overwhelming sensation of too many pages to make. It brings me back to reality. And I usually run to my journal in every moment I can spare to write all the things I can possibly think of about our daily life and how the kids have grown.

So, if you are like me, and you are feeling overwhelmed by the things piling up, and are taking more and more pictures in your super busy summer schedule, don't worry. You can do that another day. Enjoy the summer.

A quick word about new things at the store: All Autumn Leaves Products are on sale right now. You will find things at 30%, 40% and 60% off! This includes Foofala, MOD, Rhonna Farrer, and the Office Collection.

There will also be new items in the TwoPeasToo store this week. In stock currently at TwoPeasToo are all the Bazzill cardstock Packs, including the new Bazzill Fourz Packs!

This months Guest Garden Girl feature is a little late, but will be up this week. sorry for the delay.