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Please help me reach the next level of the Cherries. I am only 45 posts away from being a Cherry Picker. I am at work with nothing else to do. So what is on your mind...............

What is the meaning behind your screen name? (I haven't checked your bio.....figured I'd give a you a post to add to your count!)

Ok...we need to get you to the next level!! Here goes...do you have any kids still living at home? (your husband doesn't count, lol).

You mentioned you are at work... what do you do?

ChrissyTina wrote:What is the meaning behind your screen name? (I haven't checked your bio.....figured I'd give a you a post to add to your count!)

I am not good with making up screen names, so the m is my initial of my first name and gehrke is my last name. Not very creative I know.

Croppinmama wrote:Ok...we need to get you to the next level!! Here goes...do you have any kids still living at home? (your husband doesn't count, lol).

But he is the biggest kid I have at home. Lol..... Both of my girls still live at home. The oldest works fulltime and goes to college fulltime. It is so expensive for her to live on her own and pay for school. My youngest just graduated high school last summer. She now has a fulltime job and will be starting school this spring. I am happy to still have both of them at home. They help with the oldest kid (their dad).

scrappie_stacie wrote:You mentioned you are at work... what do you do?

I work for an Insurance company. I was recently put on a project to start getting business in electronically. I will be training our employees and the agents on how to use the new system. My first trip is already booked for next week. I will be going to Chicago for 2 days. Then the following week I will be heading to Houston for 2 days. This month is going to be a very busy starting next week. So I am kind of enjoying not having anything to work on right at this moment.

How long have you been living in Minnesota?

blbabe1234 wrote:How long have you been living in Minnesota?

I have lived in MN for 36 years now. I was born in CA and my dad's job was closing. He was born and raised in MN and mom was from CO. So dad found a new job in MN and here we are. I was 10 when we moved to MN.

I didn't read up on your bio either.... Do you paper scrap or digi scrap?


What is your favorite scrappy line?

Was it difficult to move at age 10?

lastonehom wrote:I didn't read up on your bio either.... Do you paper scrap or digi scrap?


What is your favorite scrappy line?

I paper scrap. As far as my favorite line..........honestly I really don't have one. If I like the paper I buy it. I have only been scrapping for a year now, and really don't know the lines. I buy most of my paper at Joann's, because I have bought most of the card stacks. Otherwise I buy single sheets for almost everywhere. If it catches my eye I buy it.

Croppinmama wrote:Was it difficult to move at age 10?

I guess it wasn't too bad. The worst part for a 10 year old is to leave all of the friends and then have to start all over making new ones. However, it was kind of fun. My mom drove the car and my dad drove the truck. We also had to have a moving company for all of the big stuff. There are 4 of us kids so mom took 2 at a time and dad took the other 2. Every time we stopped we could switch places. Oh and we had 2 dogs too. So of course 1 was in the car and the other in the truck.

My oldest is 17 and is graduating in June. These past few weeks have been tough between us. Since you have been through it 2 times....any tips???

Are you snowed in where you are today? If not what is the weather like today?

Ooooh I love MN! Do you live close to an Archivers?


Don't stress about graduation, and the relationship w/ your daughter. They always go thru this 'I'm graduating soon and I know everthing' stage. It will pass, graduation will happen, and after a few bumps, they will return to normal:-D

lastonehom wrote:Ooooh I love MN! Do you live close to an Archivers?


Don't stress about graduation, and the relationship w/ your daughter. They always go thru this 'I'm graduating soon and I know everthing' stage. It will pass, graduation will happen, and after a few bumps, they will return to normal:-D

Thank you so much for the advice. I forgot what normal was like

Croppinmama wrote:My oldest is 17 and is graduating in June. These past few weeks have been tough between us. Since you have been through it 2 times....any tips???

Start planning now. If you need to rent tables, chairs, tent and such, get a firm date for your party now and get your reservations in with the rental company. We decided the last minute to get a tent for the party due to the weather and we called all over the place. No one had any left. Fortunatly someone cancelled and the company called me. So I was able to get it but oh the stress was terrible.


Stay organized. I got an expandable file folder and put everything in it. I labeled every thing so I knew what was what. We created the invitation ourself. That was a lot of fun, but finding the 4x8 paper was a tough one. To keep the cost down, we also went to dollar stores for decorations. The one by us had lots of our school themed decorations. They were wonderful and didn't cost me an arm and a leg. You will also want to make a card box for the cards. I let my girls do this themselves. Another fun part was going through pictures and making a bullitin board. We had so much fun we made 2 of them. We displayed these on our deck and put the card box by them.



And......since I scrap, I made a 12x12 album for my youngest for her senior year. It was so much fun. I wasn't scrapping in 2004 so I didn't get to make one for my oldest. We are now going back through pictures to try to put a high school memory book together for her.



I can go on and on.......If you have specific questions, please feel free to PM me and I will be happy to help.

Very good advice, this is good stuff. I love planning and trying to stay organized. I didn't even think about the tent rental ahead of time. I was just going to call a couple of weeks before...now I'm looking up the phone number to Taylor Rental!!. I have been looking at some cute layouts when she was little and will hang them up on a deocrative screen room divider. We just got done with the college and scholarship stuff & the dreadful FASFA crap so now I can devote the next few months on the party. Thank you for giving me inspiration

meteechtap wrote:Are you snowed in where you are today? If not what is the weather like today?

I am in MN and have lots of snow. Our snow started early. Back on Dec 12 we got over 2 feet, but that was after 2 other storms that came through. We keep getting 3-4 inches here and there so it keeps piling up. We just got another 5 inches yesterday. It has been very cold. Right now it is on 7 degrees but with the wind chill it feels like 9 below zero. At least the sun is out.