Category: Family

  • Maybe it’s not having a patio in the backyard or the fact that our patio table rotted over the winter and we “donated” it to the neighborhood clean up instead of bringing it to the house when we moved. Or the fact that the only way I can leisurely enjoy an evening meal out doors…

  • I love to read.  Once I get sucked into a book, I can’t do anything else and will read and read until I’m finished.  I am too excited to see what happens next to actually sleep! A few months ago, I joined a book club.  It’s been fun to read the same book as my…

  • 6 months after reserving our lot… 4 months after moving from our house… We have a hole! On Thursday, we met the agent from Candlelight and our foreman to make sure that where they had the stakes was where we would like our home.  It was fun!  We could see the entire outline of the…

  • Welcome to the My Mind’s Eye 2011 Holiday Hoopla blog hop! My name is Amber Packer. I am the My Mind's Eye design team lead. I am also a wife, mother and friend and am so very humbled at the opportunities I have. If you came to my blog from the My Mind's Eye blog…

  • No excuses… but an apology!  I forgot that I had the original file on the external hard drive that died.  We are close to having the files recovered, but I had to recreate it so that I could put it up.  I’m sorry that I didn’t get it up before today. It’s REALLY simple.  Go…

  • It’s time to spread some holiday cheer and let your friends and family know how important they are to you. Nothing says LOVE like a home made card! The Lost & Found Christmas collection with all its glittery goodness makes the most gorgeous cards. Have fun playing with the Accessory Sheet and Chipboard accessories for…

  • I created this layout for the My Mind’s Eye Newsletter that was released this week.  I had to take the time to document my Grandpa.  There is so much more to him than this.  I am very lucky to have had him as my Grandpa and wanted to document my memories so that my boys…

  • A lot of you have wondered what we are doing.  Since we sold our home in September, we have been living with kind family members.  Let me tell you how we got here. In August, while our house was still on the market, we were looking at existing homes and had a hard time finding…

  • As I said in the post before, we got home from California on Sunday night.  Monday morning, we started packing up our house.  The call we got while at LEGOLAND was to let us know that the closing on our house would be moved up 8 days.  That meant we had 8 days until we…

  • September seemed to fly by in a blur.  It felt like our family ran a race that is just barely starting to end.  We are moved out and starting to adjust to our new living arrangements. We are getting a place for everything and getting a routine down – something that has been hard to…