What a FUN visit!!

I have missed those kids and grandbabies so much, and this trip was definitely the ticket!! I brought home tons of snuggles and lots of love that refilled my lonely heart, and photos galore! Here is a sampling that will eventually get scrapped. :-)

From t-ball to tea parties:



Quiet time to quite cute:


and even a trip to the zoo!

My heart is happy, and can't wait till that next visit from them for the month of July!! Until then, I have photos to scrap and memories to cherish!

Godspeed

Leaving on a jet plane!!

Tomorrow morning I will be headed to Albuquerque to visit with the kids and grandbabies!! I am SO EXCITED and can't wait to see them and fill my arms with their little bodies and my heart with all that lovin'!! I have missed them so much and I need this more than anything any doctor could have prescribed!!

I plan on taking lots of pictures, reading lots of little girl storybooks to Ruby, playing lots and lots of games, assembling puzzles, cooking along side Makayla, making lego castles, and just snuggling with them every chance I get!! And maybe, just maybe, Daddy & Mommy can sneak out for a "date night" while I'm there!

But before any of that can happen, I need to pack!! OUTTA HERE!!!

Godspeed

Sharing!

I got back on the scrapping bandwagon this week and created a few layouts I'd like to share. This first one is from the Bo Bunny Ad Lib line. I just loved this recipe card by Jenny Moore over at The ScrapRoom . I pretty much "lifted" it right down to the last detail and just replaced her photos with mine! LOVE how it turned out!


I will also be using this for the challenge over at The ScrapRoom Blog, using the word "party". Maybe you'd like to join in as well!

My second layout is from the Girl's Paperie Jubilee line. This one gave me a bit of trouble with all the different patterns and colors mixed in, so I settled for going the simplier route and created this:


Haven't done color blocking in awhile, but it came out just right for this photo of Butch & I taken in March 2011.

Probably won't get to anymore scrapping before I leave on tuesday morning. But when I return, I'll have oodles of photos of those grandbabies to scrap my nights away!! Can't wait!!

Godspeed

Creating!

Feeling pretty good today so decided to finish up this layout I started last night. I got hung up on the title, but since the first word that came to mind was "sweet", that's what I decided to use.

Just before the kids left for Albuquerque in March, I had Ruby here with me and she discovered these daffodils in the backyard. It was so sweet how she held them and played with them for quite awhile. Love the expressions on her face! This one is definitely going in a frame and hung with the others that I just can't hide away in a scrapbook!


That is the first thing checked off my list for the day and onto my second, a nice long walk! Have a wonderful day!

Godspeed

Better....

This past week was one of trial and error. What I thought would help me thru these difficult times, only made my situation uncomfortable, to say the least. After some talking with family members and the medical professionals, it was deemed that I was misdiagnosed and what I was given was only making it more difficult. So, we have started back at square one, and today was MUCH better!

It was explained to me that I'm sad and sadness is a very healthy thing to experience on occasion! Sad because the house my husband and I had built for us will no longer be ours in a few short months. Sad because my days I'm not working were filled with the sounds of little people who have since moved and not here. Sad because where I once felt very needed, I no longer feel that way. Its a grieving process of sorts, and its normal! And in all honesty, I am so relieved to hear that.

So, I have promised myself that from this day forward, I will take one day at a time, make a list of tasks that need to be completed each day and do them, and not be so anxious about the immediate future. I have no control over what will happen and when, and I need to stop dwelling on it. I need to once more become that person who looks at the glass as half full instead of half empty, because THAT is truly who I am!

Godspeed

FINALLY!!

In the course of the past few weeks - almost three to be more like it! - I have been feeling pretty darn miserable. With so much going on here that we have no control over its been weighing so heavily on me that I had to get some help. Let me tell you, if the world feels like its coming in around you, please don't hesitate to ask for help. I've been told it may take a few weeks, even up to a month, for this stuff to take hold, but knew it wasn't anything I could manage on my own anymore. Now, if I could just sleep thru the night for longer than three or four hours, I'll feel it was a gift from God!! I know in my heart of hearts, that if I could just get some sleep, it would make a world of difference.

I know I also need to find things to occupy my overbearing supply of time alone, so I forced myself to do something that I enjoy. What could that be, you ask? SCRAPBOOK!! Yes, I said force myself. I was extremely anxious doing this layout, but so like the way it came out!


It may look rather simple, but maybe that's where I need to start. Simple things in life can be just as enjoyable and if its all that I can handle right now, then so be it! I just hope and pray that I can keep going back to my scrapbooking as a way to comfort me in those times when life gets the best of me.

Godspeed