I don’t know if the same thing happens to you or not, but sometimes the stress of catching up from being on vacation almost wipes out all the relaxation from the vacation!  I’m an adult and I expect that there is going to be a backlog of work to catch up on when I get back, not to mention the backlog of mail and laundry. But I never thought that my kids would feel that stress too.  We pulled them out of school to go to Vermont and they missed five days.  We got their schoolwork from their teachers and got it all done while we were gone.  But, my 8-year old daughter, Lauren, came home from school on Monday and was really upset.  She felt like she missed a lot while they were gone and didn’t know how she was ever going to get caught up.  They had finished their unit on reptiles while she was gone and started a new one on birds and she didn’t know any of the terms they were using.  She also has 2 quizzes she has to make up.  She started crying because she said it was really frustrating to feel so behind and she didn’t know how she was ever going to get caught up.  I felt so bad for her!  I didn’t realize that stress started so young   I told her about how I was feeling the same thing at work and how it always feels this way when you get back from vacation and you have lots of catching up to do.  It was one of the first "grown-up" conversations we’ve had where I felt that we really related.  She was so relieved to hear that I go through the same thing sometimes and I think it was one of the first times she has seen me as a person, not just as her Mom.  I felt so good because I was able to make her feel better.  It makes me feel like I’m going to be able to handle this mom thing as she gets older.

 

We have over 250 new items this week – it’s a scrapbooking smorgasbord!  New product and themes include: Fright Night, Old Guys Fish and We’re Adopting! by Creative Imaginations, Girls Sports by Scrappin’ Sports, & More, Racing from L’il Davis, outdoor sports by SRM Press, Bella Girl by Teresa Collins and Dotted Swiss from Bazzill (including the swatch book).  We also have a lot of themes in the SYT exclusive products:  fall, cruise, Iceland, Mexico, zoo (wait until you see the giraffe and elephant die cuts) and military.  We took a bunch of pictures in Vermont that we turned into SYT papers – perfect for scrapbooking fall and apple picking!  We have two custom die cuts – one for a family road trip and one for adoption (could also be used for births).  Based on the fantastic response we got last week on our custom papers, we’ve designed another look.  You can either choose the paper color or the ink color.  Click here to see all the items:  http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/102208.html.

 

Lastly, we have a new section for you to take a look at – Shop by Layout.  Our designer, Tiffany, is a very talented scrapbooker and she designed a fantastic double-page spread using the Fright Night line from Creative Imaginations.  We have it on the website, listed with all the products she used to make it.  We’ve even included the pop-dots and Stickles!  Here’s a link to check out the layout:  http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/shopbylayout.html. 

 

If this is something you’d like to see more of, just let us know what you’d like to see and we’ll get to work. 

 

As always, thanks for your business!

 

Julie Swatek, President

Scrap Your Trip®

‘cuz life is a trip worth scrappin’®