In a little over an hour, I will be sitting at the oral surgeon’s office, waiting for my daughter Lauren’s name to be called.  She has a "mucocele" – a place where she bit her lip so hard that it severed the salivary duct and caused a cyst.  At our consultation visit, she was so freaked out that they prescribed Valium for her to take both last night and this morning, before they give her the laughing gas.  But last night, she said "I don’t need to take the medicine.  I’m not worried about it."  We talked it over and she really isn’t bothered – just very matter of fact.  I’m hoping that she remains that way by the time we walk into the doctor’s office.

 

Dad is a different matter altogether.   I think he’s more freaked out than she is!  Moms know that sometimes our kids have to hurt in order to get better.  From a heel stick as an infant to holding them down for vaccinations…we know it’s what’s best for them.  For me at least, that protective urge shifts from the pain in the moment to the keeping them safe long-term.  Doesn’t mean I’m happy about the oral surgeon taking a scalpel to my baby, but I know it’s what’s best for her.  I’m going to videotape her all goofy on the laughing gas, but I promised her it would never show up on YouTube!

 

Did you know that today is National Inconvenience Yourself Day?  I love all the weird holidays that people create, but I read about this one in a magazine and I thought it was a great idea.  So, today is the day to be kind to the stranger who’s trying to merge into traffic in front of you or take your shopping cart back to the store instead of leaving it in the parking lot.  Today is a day to make the world a little better place by doing something nice for someone else, even if it inconveniences you a little bit.

 

We try to make your life a little easier by having lots of great new scrapbook products all in one place and this week is no exception!  We have 248 new items this week, starting with one of K&Company’s new collections for 2009:  Que Sera Sera.  It’s a beautiful floral collection that they framed and decorated their booth with at CHA.  We also have the Safari Chic and All About a Boy collections from Die Cuts with a View, three new collections from Teresa Collins: Documented, Family Matters and Haute Cuisine, calendar stickers from SRM Press and new colors and Just the Edge from Bazzill, including embossed paper! 

 

The SYT designers were working on the following themes this week:  Cayman Islands, Netherlands, Virgin Islands, Alaska, Louisiana, Billiards, T-Ball, Camping, Casino, Cooking, Sea World and more.  We have a new custom paper that you can choose two different sayings/words in two different fonts.  You have 30 color choices and 16 font choices.  It turned out fantastic!  Click here to see all the new items:  http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/22509.html.
 
We also have 248 items on sale this week and over 200 items left on 50% clearance.  Click here to see all the bargains:  http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/clearance.html.

 

And remember, if you can’t find what you’re looking for, we can always make it custom just for you!  Click here to see all our custom options:  http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/custom.html.