I had foolishly left this project, once again, until the day before it needed to be done. Apparently I'm very slow to learn my lesson because any smart girl would have finished it before the holidays. Not me though. I kept telling myself that since it was already half finished that it wouldn't be so bad this time, but I grossly underestimated the amount of work involved.
Even after Adam, Amy and the girls arrived, I still felt optimistic about the amount of work I needed to do. Amy offered to help cut out the cards, and then I volunteered Randy and Adam to help too so we could finish quickly and play games sooner.
It ended up taking 4 of us an hour and a half to cut all the cards out (which was made worse by the fact that I did some sub par laminating which resulted in some overlapped cards), then to punch holes in all of them and put the groups of 13 cards onto a ring. I needed 39 sets of 13 cards, so that meant working with 507 cards!
It was such a blessing that they came over and that they were so willing to help, they totally saved my bacon. I probably would have been up all night working on that project and would have been begrudging the time spent doing this, even though it was my own fault. Instead it turned into a quality SEP group therapy session (Adam should seriously start taking appointments) and a good time with the four of us.
We finished all the cards by 8:00 and were able to play Speed Scrabble and Scum until 10:30.
Happy Birthday Daniela & Shawna!!!
**Do you leave things to the last minute?
When was the last time someone saved your bacon?**
When was the last time someone saved your bacon?**
28 comments:
Oh my goodness. Is that RED panini press you have? I'm jealous.
You're a proper mad lady! Hahaha!
Didn't they just save your bacon? That's so true! It looks fab, though, at the end. You must be really pleased with all those little doofers.
I had my bacon saved once with napkin folding for a church event. I thought I'd be able to sit quietly and fold about a bizillion napkins. I quickly realised I was kidding myself and rapidly corralled together a band of willing napkin-folding apprentices. We all had a good chin-wag and they learned a new skill, and they even suggested that we hold a Napkin Folding Evening as a church event for women to learn how to do different folds. (It's not happened yet!!)
I love how your family seems to work/play together so well!
Is it just because I live in the east that I've never heard "saved my bacon?"...That's too funny! I also like the expression, "I wrestled that pig down" meaning I hunted and finally found something.
Rambling..sorry
I rarely leave things to the last minute--I am the opposite of procrastination...it's sick! I never leave things to the last minute that can be done in advance...I figure that theres always last minute things that happen that can't be avoided. I drive myself and others crazy by being like this! I feel like a slave driver sometimes.
Lets see...a bacon saving moment...My husband has been bailing me out on a daily basis lately with blog questions...I'm finally up to speed with everything, I think...
I have you posted on my "What inspires me" category.
You're awesome!
That red panini maker is very cute... maybe we could get a close up?
I'm glad they came to help... when I talked to you I was wishing you were neighbors (yes, I know you are glad we are not) so that I could help you... busy work is my specialty. I would love to listen in on one of your SEP sessions.
leave things to the last minute? me? do you mean like this morning at 5:00 when I was writing a progress note for a child whose parents I had a meeting with at 9:00? the monday after I had 2 weeks off? oh, yeah, I HATE it when I do that!
I love how your evening all came together, especially with the help of your great family. I love the relationship you have with your brother. It's admirable Jill!
I am tend to leave things to the last min. Could use some better time mangement skills.
Hubby saves my bacon!
Leave things till the last minute? WAY too often! And when I'm pregnant or sick it just seems worse.
Jeff routinely saves my bacon--poor, wonderful man that he is!
The card sets look great and I'm a little jealous of your SEP sessions...I love to sit and have a great talking time like that :)
We were happy to help. Just sitting around talking made the time go by so quickly it didn't seem like work at all. I thought they turned out great and will remember that project if I ever find myself in your position.
I asked Adam on the way home if his goal was to travel around and do seminars. Makes you wonder if he did seminars years ago to give him experience in the future. I think he would find it very fulfilling.
First...that is a FANTASTIC project! I can only imagine how much work went into into it, but I have to say that you get brownie points because those are awesome!!
Second, LOVE the panini maker, and I agree with Amie, we need a close up (I love the red).
And lastly, I REALLY want to hear what goes on in a SEP session, they sound facsinating!
Projects like that are MUCH more bearable when you have help. Good timing! :)
those cards are worth the work. I think my missionary had some in his scriptures for YEARS. so nice to have help!
I have done projects like this before - ya I always wait until the last minute. I wish I didn't do that!
right now I am trying to get a project done that i've known about since before Christmas- aargh.
The anticipation is usually worse than the real thing for me.
I wish someone would save my bacon right now...
I LOVE the way many hands make light work! Throw SEP into the mix and I bet it was downright enjoyable for all.
I routinely save things for the last minute -- not because I enjoy that kind of stress, but because I always tend to do things in order of priority, and there just always seem to be too many fires to put out... I guess I have a problem.
Hooray for others' helping!
I'm so glad you had the extra help & got to play games!
That is soo much work! What are you doing with the cards? I have had to do some lamenting myself with some primary project we did. I am so glad it is over with!
Wow...that's a lot of work! I'm glad you always have your family there to help you! How blessed!
I do leave things to the last minute all the time, but luckily my husband is always there to save my bacon, since I have no family around :)
Wow--you could have been up all night! Lucky that you agreed to game night so you could get some help. Projects like that are always better with helping hands.
I'm a total procrastinator. Hello--Christmas cards still not sent, neighbor gifts didn't get made, etc, etc. The holidays really accentuate that personality (dare I say it?) flaw in me. Or birthdays, or every Sunday morning, or about 5:00 PM when I still don't know what we're going to eat for dinner. . . .and nobody bails me out, usually. I'm too stubborn to ask for help!
I'm usually running out of time to do things but I have to say that I'm a whole lot more organized than I used to be. I try to get stuff done early because then I don't have so much stress.
As for saving the bacon....I'm the bacon saver in my world. I'm the one that gets the phone calls and helps out. I'm happy to though. It's nice to be needed. :)
Maybe you could post a link for all of us to download your fabulous work, so we can reap the benefits too? I have a couple of girls (including one in Achievement Day Girls) that could benefit greatly from these....please?
i regularly leave a stack of filing to be done until it becomes overwhelming. today i did a little experiment and worked on it during every spare moment i had. i have been shocked to see how quickly it is going.
Hurray for family saving your bacon!!
I do have a question for you. I see you have some neat visuals for your articles of faith. Where did you find those, or did you make them up? Would you be willing to share?? Pretty please?
Whoa. I have a hand cramp just reading about all that cutting! A labor of love, for sure. My mom always says, "You can do anything on the Buddy System." True--even cutting 500+ cards.
I don't have a panini maker--let alone a RED one! Any appliance works better when it's red. I have a red toaster oven.
I would love to know how you put together your cards. Our primary kids would enjoy them-
This last Oct- My grandmothers earthly life was coming to an end. Our large family descended on the house with people coming and going. I had a large project for red ribbon week of folding red paper into those little fortune tellers. Like you, I really did not think it would take me long to do ... I was so wrong. I grabbed all my cousins and handed out the red papers and had them start folding. It was like an assembly line. Then I sat around with my mom, and two sisters and folded away as we sang to one another around our Nana. It was very interesting that the folding gave everyone something to do. And it helped me. So much!
Gee, I'm sorry we missed that game night! Ha. It's good that everyone was there to help. Maybe it would have only taken an hour and 12 minutes if we'd been there...?
How were the panini's? Did Adam bring the ice cream maker? What appliance are we going to get to benefit the group?
The pictures for The Article of Faith cards were found on www.theideadoor.com, then we just laid out the text on a different sheet of paper and made double sided copies on cardstock. We made them for our primary teachers and it was still pretty pricey with the copies, laminating and rings so I don't know about doing it for all the kids.
I always leave things to the last minute..but I seem to function better that way.
Seeing that post made me glad I wasn't in Primary for all the end of year visual aids and such. It's always such a task! Glad you had so much great help!
Oh, dear, that just looks like so much work! I'm glad that you had help because that just seems like an awful lot for one person to do. I really like the idea, though. Seems like a great learning tool.
Your game nights look so fun!
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