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A Very Productive NSD

Yesterday was National Scrapbooking Day. I love it! It is the one day I put aside each year to scrapbook. Yesterday my mission was to get finished layouts into their appropriate albums and to finally finish several layouts that have been hanging around, un-done, for years!

Mission accomplished! It felt so good to finally get things a little more organized and a little more - "done" - so to speak!

This layout was started way back in 2005 at a class I took at The Scrapbook Station. 

 It actually sat in an album with no journaling all those years. I had a post-it on the page with what I wanted to include in the journaling, why I never finished it, who knows. But now it is done and I am one happy camper!

I cannot remember what the focus of the class was at the time, probably a technique class. I attended the class with a fellow teacher, her layout has probably been done for years!

I am happy that it is finished and that I can move on to sharing other stories!

Kindergarten

This is a throw back Thursday from way back, kindergarten, 1962, to be specific.

I started school at School #2 in Clifton, New Jersey. School # 2 was located on Van Houten Avenue and I remember taking a bus to school most days. There were a couple of days when I threw a fit and my mom had to call my dad to come home to drive me to school. I cannot imagine that happening more than once, my father was not thrilled with me! 

School #2 was an older building. The school opened in 1949. The cafeteria was in the lower level and in my memory it feels like a basement of sorts. I am not so sure about that. I do remember the very heavy steel doors which were very hard for me to handle. 

I remember making a brown construction paper house book, because the house we lived in was brown. My mother kept that house book in her desk drawer until long after I had grown and moved out.

I remember liking school.

I remember wearing dresses every day, girls weren't allowed to wear pants.

I remember plalying on the playground and I remember dancing around the May Pole on May Day. 

How cool is it that I can remember so much just by glancing at a photo? So happy that I have photographs from my childhood.

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