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When your children are babies, life with them is a series of milestones. Their first smile…first time they ate baby food…first word…first steps…It’s all about the "firsts". As they get older, we don’t realize it right away, but it becomes about the "lasts". The "lasts" are so different than the "firsts", because you don’t know that the last time is going to be the last time, so you don’t savor the moment as much as you should. The last time they ran to give you a hug when you picked them up at school…the last time they let you give them a kiss in public… the last time they called you "Mommy" instead of "Mom". My kids are getting ready to enter 3rd grade and Kindergarten and I know that the "lasts" have only just begun.
What has me so nostalgic about their childhood, you ask? They packed their own suitcases. We went on our second summer weekend last weekend and they each packed their own suitcase. I gave them a list and even my 5-year old Logan, read it, pulled the proper number of items from the closet, folded them neatly (for a 5-year old) and packed them in his suitcase. I don’t think he could have been any prouder of himself! It’s so weird to realize that my kids have become self-sufficient. My daughter Lauren makes her own breakfast, including putting it in the microwave and she doesn’t even need a stool anymore! Sigh…I guess there are still a lot of "firsts" and "lasts" in my future. 
Speaking of firsts, we have the first new idea book we’ve had in a while this week. It’s the "Scrapbook Trends: Vacations – Scrapbooking Life’s Adventures Book" and it has some really cute ideas. It’s one of over 200 new items we have available this week. We have lots of new travel papers from Sugartree, two new collections from Teresa Collins: Boardwalk and Recipe Collection, sports from Carolee’s Creations and Karen Foster, Spring and Summer from Scrappin’ Sports and More, camping, birthday, ancestry, DIY, even State Fair! The SYT design room made a customized life preserver for your pool. They worked on several requests this week, so if you were asking for "Learning to Tie Your Shoes", "Deputy Sheriff" or "Lamda Chi Alpha", you’re in luck! The last request they made was for me. When we were in Chicago for CHA, we missed our plane coming home (complete with the mad dash through the airport – of course we were at the VERY last gate). I’m pretty sure as you look through all the new products we have this week, you’ll see which one I had them make for me! Click here to see them all: http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/80608.html.
Click here to see them all: http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/80608.html.As always, thanks for all your business!
Julie Swatek, President
Scrap Your Trip ®
‘cuz life is a trip worth scrappin’®
11 Comments
1. Suzanne&hellip | August 6th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Hi, we started school today in Harris Co Georgia, and I came home from dropping off 2 of my 3 kids, to your email. Was so glad to hear from you, enjoy your blog, but wasnt upset till I got home and read about your firsts……..My oldest son graduated high school this past May, and he was SAD this morning when my 15 yr and 13 yr old were going to school. So I quickly gave him a task and requested he take the 15 yr old to the high school, only giving me the middle school to run to this morning. Those first are gone so quickly……….and before you know it they are grown. We are very proud of our oldest, but it is sad to say goodbye to all those first. Guess Im going to scrap some of those great memories today, I have wanted to all summer, but EVERY DAY there was something going on. RELISH IN THE FIRSTS, for they are all gone too quickly.
2. Carole Spraggins&hellip | August 6th, 2008 at 8:46 am
I have raised 5 kids and have 10 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren so I have had lots of 1st and lasts. Kinda mixed emotions, huh?
I love your newletters. I get lots of newletters from various places but yours is the most interesting and delightful. I feel like I am getting a letter from a friend.
Thanks
3. Kat Sprouse&hellip | August 6th, 2008 at 8:51 am
LOVE the new die cut… I’ve been in the same situation in Chicago, Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth. Great idea!
4. Betty Moreau&hellip | August 6th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Julie;
I wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your emails. They always bring back lot of memories for me of my son’s when they were younger. Your writings today of ‘firsts’ really touched my heart. Treasure every moment you have with your children because they do grow up soooo fast. You see, my oldest son is living on his own now and my youngest just got married in June.
I am just a beginner scrapbooker, but I have so much to scrap. I love your website and all the new products you have. I’m sure I will be ordering lots of products from you once I really get into scrapbooking.
Thanks for being such a great inspiration in the scrapping world.
Betty from Louisiana
5. Donna Harris&hellip | August 6th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Julie,
I love your emails – they aren’t JUST to get business, but the sharing of your life with a friend! Because of cancer, knee replacement, infection of that knee and a stroke, I am spending a lot of time at home alone, so it is a giddy feeling to get email from a friend!
One thing about some of your lasts – they are also firsts. Your children packed their suitcases by themselves – for the FIRST time. They may have “needed” you for the last time in that activity, but relish the first of it as well! You are a GREAT mom!
Sadly, I am not a mom – I cannot birth any children and God has not chosen to give us any through adoption, etc., so my scrapbooking is so different from many others. I don’t have a ton of pages with Halloween and Easter and so forth. I have Christmas and Thanksgiving with my brother and sister and their families, but no school events, etc. My scrapbooking is with our dog and cat and our hobby of Civil War reenacting. I am constantly on the lookout for new scrapping embellishments and papers, but unfortunately, there is very little out there that differs from any other vendor.
I must say, my heart swells with a bit of pride when my searches almost always direct me to SYT! You seem to have the most leading “authority” on the topic. So since you now have your laser, I thought maybe your design team would like to have some ideas to research on items to die cut. I KNOW I am not the only one out there scrapping Civil War photos!
Suggestions include: Drums and sticks, haversacks, brogans (CW shoes), canteens, bedrolls, mugs, muckets, A-frame tents, cots, stacked arms, hooped skirts, parasol, accordian fans, hats and bonnets, snoods, bibbed apron (without the neck loop!). These would make GREAT additions to any scrapbook pages about the Civil War! There is SO much more to that war than Gettysburg! There are cannons and muskets a-plenty out there, so the availabiltiy of these ideas would be wonderful!
Okay, end of my epistle! Thank you so much for all you do and thanks for being there for us in such a wonderful way! Keep up the good work!
Donna from Pennsylvania
6. Cheryle - Vancouver USA -&hellip | August 6th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Absolutely love the new Theresa Collins recipe collection and the Karen Foster Fair collection!
I’ve been meaning to thank you on showing the matching cardstock which really helps when choosing paper!
Thanks so much!
Cheryle
7. Lisa&hellip | August 6th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
I always love reading your e-mails. I find it very important to get to know people these days, life’s definately to short and flies by way to quick. Your recent e-mail brought a tear to my eye because as I read your e-mail I remember my kids milestones. My son is 19 and is getting ready to start his second year in college and my daughter will be a Junior in high school!! Can’t believe how fast it all goes, so enjoy every single minute and cherish those “last” moments!!!!
Just keep writing we all enjoy it!!!
8. Kathy Joyner&hellip | August 6th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Thank you, Judy, for sharing some of your firsts. There will be many more to come that’s for sure. I am about to experience a first next month with my 26 year old. We leave for a move to Seattle then. She will stay behind with her life, her job and hopefully many dreams to fullfil as a woman on her own. Isn’t that what we prepare them for in this world. We have not been a part from her except for college life and then she was only 1 hour and 45 minutes away. Now it will be a 2,700 miles away. She doesn’t let us know directly but we know from friends that she is a bit anxious. We are too. However, she has her life to live and we still have a whole lot of living in our lives as a retired couple. while it would be nice to be closer, this is not where we want to live in our retirement. She has no desire to stay here except this is where the job is. We were dictated by that reason all our married life. Now, we get to choose. One day she may find her self able to move closer to us. At least it will be easier if we are out there first and able to help her with the transistion. Anyway… enjoy those first. We did and we look forward to a few more in our lifetime as well. Kathy Joyner
9. Carol Michaels&hellip | August 6th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Julie – I love reading your emails. It seems as if I can relate to most all of them. The one today really got to me, my sons are both on their own and doing well but being a mom I always worry about them. The firsts are sooo hard because as you say you feel as if you are not needed any longer but my 23 year old calls me at least 3 times a day which I look forward to. I know he still needs his mom and that makes me feel great. I will always be here for them as my parents are still for me. Thanks for such terrific items, I look forward to buying all the time!
10. Kelli Cummings&hellip | August 6th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Julie-
Like others who posted before me, I enjoy reading your emails when they arrive. I was also touched by your email today and can relate to the feelings you shared. I wanted to share with you a recent experience of mine, which hopefully will reassure you that despite how fast they grow and how quickly the “lasts” come, our kids will always be our “babies”. My oldest daughter just graduated high school this year and for whatever reason decided that she wanted to try living on her own. She moved into her own apartment three weeks ago and of course, it made me very sad. Two weeks after she moved out though I received a text message from her out of the blue…all it said was “I miss you mommy”. The “last” time she called me mommy was at least ten years ago, so suffice it to say, I was deeply moved by her choice to once again refer to me that way. I guess the morale of this story is that even the lasts, don’t mean it’s the end.
Keep up the good work!
11. Cindi N.&hellip | August 6th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
I too love your e-mails, I feel honored that you share your personal life with all of us. I recently lost my job of 15 years and like a lot of others live paycheck to paycheck. My oldest daughter (16) just started her first job and realized just how desparate we were going to be with making the bills. She handed over all of her paychecks so we would not have to move. The first are over so quickly, before you realize they are all grown up. I have been blessed with 3 amazing kids and thank the good Lord for them everyday. Enjoy the firsts and treat everyday as if it would be the last. When they walk out the door everyday take time to stop what you are doing tell them you love them and give them a hug a kiss ( no matter how old they are), for it may be the last time.