The Rossie Albums

I didn’t have time to create my page for the One Little Word tag book before I left on vacation. But the big accomplishment this month was finishing Sarah’s Rossie Album. I finished Matt’s last month, but ended up moving all the photos from one album to another. I bought two-up albums for these projects, but I don’t like the way the pages lay in the post-bound album. I can’t find another 8X8 ring album that works, although I ordered on that didn’t work!

I had the very best day care any mother could want. Rossie (a variation of her last name) is still a wonderful friend to all of us. Both kids worked for her when they were in middle school. She paid them a nominal fee, and it kept them in day care for a couple extra years. Moving up through the ranks from baby to toddler to little kid to big kid was a rite of passage in her house. Almost no one left once they’d come through the door, so both Sarah and Matt had the same friends for years and years. Sarah is still in contact with one of them, and when I run into any of the parents or the kids around town, it’s like a little family reunion.

Rossie took lots and lots of photos during the year. At her annual Christmas party she would hang a packet of them for each parent on her dining room wall. One of her favorite things to do was to find a really goofy photo to put on the top of Matt’s pile, in hopes of making me squirm. 🙂 Thus the photo of French fries in Matt’s nose. He laughed when he got to that photo, and told us that Rossie told him he could try ketchup on the fries or stick them up his nose! She knew he’s never try the ketchup. I wanted my kids to have these albums of their time with Rossie. Matt took his with him, and Sarah will have gotten hers by the time this posts. Here are a few photos of the two albums.

You always had two birthday parties, one at Rossie’s and one at our house.

Rossie’s captions were always a big hit!

Still friends today.

Sarah and Rossie at her wedding.

The last page of Matt’s album with a few extras that I didn’t have room for.

Since most of the photos were 5X3 I had to cut 4X6 mats for them. Sarah’s album uses coordinated papers from Scenic Route, and Matt’s are from SEI.