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Little lady is finally on the mend, (hooray!), so I can sneak away and scrap after missing the past four days.
Tons of fun digging through old photos to find one of me to compare with Julie. I'm told all the time how much we look alike, but people always wonder where she got her blonde hair. Lo and behold I wasn't always a brunette beauty! Hehehe
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Load8: Missing
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I thought I would be so fast tonight, but then I got thinking about "missing" and it took me forever to figure out my feelings and articulate what I wanted to say. Super grateful for my uncle who scanned a bunch of family photos a few years ago, they are a gold mine!
Journalling reads:
There are 29 first cousins on my Dad’s side of the family and we were a noisy boisterous bunch. My memories of childhood are packed full of times spent with my extended family: holidays, Sunday dinners, sleepovers, summer visits, many of us were in the same church branch for a number of years. I’m not really close to any of them now, mainly because we don’t live that close, but also with a family that big it’s easy to drift apart. I miss that connectedness. One of my biggest regrets with the life that Darrel and I have built is that we don’t live near our families and our kids don’t have those same close relationships with their cousins. And in fact, I don’t really have close relationships with my siblings either. I don’t think we want it this way, at least I don’t, it’s just that we are busy with our lives, and kids and jobs. But it makes me feel really sad so I should do something different so that I get a different result. The best way to predict the future is to create it, right?!"
I thought I would be so fast tonight, but then I got thinking about "missing" and it took me forever to figure out my feelings and articulate what I wanted to say. Super grateful for my uncle who scanned a bunch of family photos a few years ago, they are a gold mine!
Journalling reads:
There are 29 first cousins on my Dad’s side of the family and we were a noisy boisterous bunch. My memories of childhood are packed full of times spent with my extended family: holidays, Sunday dinners, sleepovers, summer visits, many of us were in the same church branch for a number of years. I’m not really close to any of them now, mainly because we don’t live that close, but also with a family that big it’s easy to drift apart. I miss that connectedness. One of my biggest regrets with the life that Darrel and I have built is that we don’t live near our families and our kids don’t have those same close relationships with their cousins. And in fact, I don’t really have close relationships with my siblings either. I don’t think we want it this way, at least I don’t, it’s just that we are busy with our lives, and kids and jobs. But it makes me feel really sad so I should do something different so that I get a different result. The best way to predict the future is to create it, right?!"
Load7: Big Brother
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This was supposed to be my lo for day six, but my little lady got sick...so I didn't finish it yesterday. Part of me is disappointed because I really wanted to complete every day this load, but clearly cuddling little people takes precedence. :) There's always next load, but my babies won't be babies forever. And I loved today's prompt, but with sick little lady I only had three hours of sleep and then went to work all day. *Groan* So I opted to finish this up quick. Now I'm off to bed, g'night ladies!
This was supposed to be my lo for day six, but my little lady got sick...so I didn't finish it yesterday. Part of me is disappointed because I really wanted to complete every day this load, but clearly cuddling little people takes precedence. :) There's always next load, but my babies won't be babies forever. And I loved today's prompt, but with sick little lady I only had three hours of sleep and then went to work all day. *Groan* So I opted to finish this up quick. Now I'm off to bed, g'night ladies!
Friday, February 03, 2012
Thursday, February 02, 2012
LOAD Day 2: Seven
Two of my most important people on their seventh birthday. How did Jack get to be seven? Seriously.
Journaling reads: "Two seven-year olds, forty years apart. I love seeing these photos side by side -the past and the future all wrapped up together. I love that the little boy on the left grew up and became an awesome Dad to the boy on the right. I love that Darrel knew that Jack would be thrilled with a tool set because he would have been. I love how much they look alike. I love the look on their faces, that life was and is good."
Journaling reads: "Two seven-year olds, forty years apart. I love seeing these photos side by side -the past and the future all wrapped up together. I love that the little boy on the left grew up and became an awesome Dad to the boy on the right. I love that Darrel knew that Jack would be thrilled with a tool set because he would have been. I love how much they look alike. I love the look on their faces, that life was and is good."
LOAD!
It's one of those month's again, LOAD (Layout a Day), and I'm soooo thrilled! (If anyone out there is interested in participating you can check it out at www.layoutaday.com) I love doing LOAD for a number of reasons:
- The great community of scrapbookers who support eachother.
- The daily prompts that make me think differently about my life and the stories I need and want to document.
- February LOAD makes winter go so much faster!
- Seeing all the other awesome creations of scrappers out there.
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