...organization! It seems that everytime I get my scrap-room organized and just the way I like it....we move again! We have been in this new house for just over a year now, and basically, this is what my scrap room has looked like since we moved....with an occasional shifting around of the stuff. No wonder I get more done when I go to our local scrap store to work! My goal over the next 8 weeks is to get this room in order so I can get some serious scrapping done over Christmas break......I chose a really nice color for the walls....sort of an apricot-ish color called summer sun, which is one of the colors in the Company Story quilt for the bed in that room....it is a color that just makes me smile. I have two walls done so far--with "help" from my two kids"--and it already just brings more of an upbeat and creative tone to the room. I just know this color will stimulate my creative juices to overflowing!! I have already picked out some cubed shelves for one wall and can't wait to get my cute jars of embellishments out and displayed.....when I unpack, it's going to be just like a scrapbooker's best Christmas! I can't even remember all of the goodies that I have. I will post pictures of this creative work in progress as I complete it. I'm thinking about using the transformation as one of my entries for the CK HOF competition that I AM going to enter this year....we'll see how it goes.
As for today's letter of thanks, it goes to Mr. and Mrs. Racignol, two teachers who I had growing up in little McBain. Mrs. Racignol was my second grade teacher and just a wonderful woman who loved,nurtured and challenged her students. I remember how she just made learning so fun and made us each believe we were special and capable.....memories of the footstep spelling words on the classroom wall, the telephone booth she made out of a big refrigerator box, playing (and usually winning!) Around the World, just her nurturance and interest she took in me as a person. Mrs. Racignol is married to Mr. Racignol, who was my high school softball coach and my math teacher. Mr. Racignol was one of those men who just has fun, no matter what he is going or where he is. He constantly told jokes, most of them off-color, and just had a great spirit about him. He believed in me as a student and a softball player; I distinctly remember when I was in elementary school and we attended the state finals game where the varsity softball team was playing. We went to the restaurant to eat, and I remember Mr. Racignol told me "You're going to be my pitcher in a few years." And I took that challenge to heart. And a few years later, there I was, pitching for the varsity team as a freshman/sophomore and eventually earning several honors and going on to play and make all-district honors at the college level. Mr. and Mrs. Racignol also influenced Matt and I as a couple. When Matt first moved to McBain, they befriended him and golfed with him and just really connected with him. So when Matt and I were engaged, it was only natural that we looked to them to be our master and mistress of ceremonies. They did such an awesome job and really just blessed us with all the work, organization and creativity they put into our day. And to top it all off, they presented us with the coolest gift....a nativity set.......and it wasn't just a one time presentation. Several times throughout the first year of our marriage, a little wrapped gift would appear or arrive. Yes, another piece to the set. This was truly the gift that lasted and kept on giving. But, even more, their influence in my life and in our marriage is one that will continue to grow and thrive along with us. Thanks from our hearts, Mr. and Mrs. R.!! Every year at holiday time when we unpack the Christmas decorations and set out our nativity, you are close on our minds and in our prayers. I pray that my children will have second grade teachers, math teachers, and coaches who take the gift of educating children to heart as seriously as you do....you will never, ever be forgotten.
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