HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH!!!! The School Yearbook is FINISHED!!!!
It has been about two months and probably a total of three weeks worth of completely skipping sleep, but it is submitted and on it's way to the printers!
Our school has grown beyond the Shutterfly paperback that we did last year, so I took on the task of creating our professional, hard copy, full color, 58 page yearbook with a custom cover!! Why I thought I knew how to do this... I have No Idea! If they would have asked me to do a book report on the school year I would have disappeared faster than Flash (my boys would be proud of the superhero reference!), however, taking pictures, Photoshopping, graphics, Big project.... FUN!! I'll figure it out!
I find it cruel that my OCD only shows up in certain areas of my life. Areas some may consider not very important. My house is a mess, the car is disgusting, my kids are rarely clean or clothed (Happy..... but probably dirty and naked ;) )... however, I spent upwards of 20 hours on some of the pages of this book. Finding, editing, and changing graphics. Cropping and editing photos. Searching for the perfect borders, obsessing about sizes, deleting backgrounds or areas of the photo I didn't like. Every page is custom created so that we didn't have to pay for already created backgrounds (or break any copyright laws!), however, if I did my job right, everyone will assume it was just a background I tossed on the page and added some pictures to! (Bittersweet to say the least!)
Yesterday, it was decided to add some last minute events to the yearbook and the words "We can just throw them in there, right" were said by someone very special and important in our lives. I almost had a heart attack!!! "Throw them on there"?? Ummm, Ok??! You mean like how when people are going to come over to play and a start throwing all the stuff around the house into a plastic tub and hide it in the closet? Or when we are running late for school and I tell the kids to get in the car in their underwear and I run into Target on the way to school and just BUY clothes and lunches for the day, just so I didn't have to find them in the house?!!
THESE kinds of things I can "throw" together, but a yearbook page full of pictures, and graphics, and memories that could be cherished for the rest of their lives..... AAAHHHHHHHH!!! I swallowed hard, assured her that my "deer in headlights" look was temporary, and YES! the Science Fair has a two page spread in this year's yearbook!! ;)
And just like childbirth, God knows what he is doing, because as of 6:30 in the morning I was screaming (quietly as to not wake up the house!) I will NEVER DO THIS AGAIN!!! However, it's 2pm now, and I'm already setting up for next year! :/
(That could also be because I have figured out that a yearbook from scratch is absolutely and completely impossible to create in two months!)
So....., I hear that my kids are still in school, and that I have some sort of company that needs some attention??! I'm going to go check on these things now, and you guys (Fortis parents specifically, but anyone is welcome to enjoy a copy if you would like!) just make sure your yearbook order has been turned in!! ;)
Sincerly,
Crazy Momma with strange priorities!!
