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Miss You Mama...

March 2005

You've been gone five years today. Sometimes it feels like a lifetime and other times it feels like yesterday. This week was rough. You were on my mind constantly and in my dreams. Some of them made me wake up crying. You've missed so much. I know you are where you want to be but im still selfish enough to desperately want you here instead. I want to watch you play with Becca. I want to call you for help when Im cooking. I want you to cook for me...spaghetti and birthday cake. I want to come over to do laundry and hang out all day.

If you were here I promise I wouldnt be annoyed when you call me. I would care more about spending time with you than with friends. I would try harder to make you proud of me. I would help you out more. I would take your advice more. I would never take you for granted. I would be a hugger. Sometimes I ache to feel your arms around me.

I dont remember your smell anymore. I can still remember the sound of your voice, especially your singing. I dont know enough about your life when you were young. I can still remember almost every moment of your last days...even though i want to forget. I dont know if you were proud of me. I do know that you loved me and I desperately miss your love.

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Catching up...

I spent some time with my best friend today...keeping her company while she babysits. During the course of our conversation I said "Oh I didnt tell you..." at least a dozen times.

There is something wrong with that picture!! I dont even have that much going on in my life and I have neglected to share it with her...the one i share everything with! It was an ahha moment for sure!

All that brings me around to here...another "friend" i've neglected! So...heres to best friends and catching up :)

• Still jobless but waiting to hear from a great opportunity.
• Still in love with my niece who gets smarter and funnier EVERY DAY.
• Still addicted to Zuma (its a computer game...not ZIMA the drink) and Facebook.
• Still scrapping...made a bunch recently that I really love! If youre nice I will show them to you...soon!
• Recently had an ahha moment about my church and how much i love it! Seriously, they have been my "family" for 15 years now...and thats something i need to stop taking for granted.  Plus harvest dinner is in the 3 weeks and that starts the eating season :)
• Still surrounded by lots of babies that i love!  really i love them MORE than if they were mine!!  its so freakin cool to watch them grow up...BP is pulling herself up on stuff and starting to figure out how to get around using furniture.  It is the coolest funniest thing to watch her mind work!
• Still in debt but its UNDER 5 figures now so that is super cool...esp. with 5 months of no job.  Getting ready to buckle down again and live like no one else...after christmas....heeheehee
  

So I think youre mostly caught up on the important (and unimportant) ask me questions if you want more info!!

oh...and thanks for reading :)

New art...

Confessions...

I have a new obsession...

YARN

the expensive yummy color drenched cuddly kind

Dont worry...i make stuff with it too :)

Im a knitter!! **blush**

New art...

In case you were wondering...yes i still scrap! These are for a challenge at studio calico to use some of the absolutely awesome exclusive stamps...and since paint has decided to disappear off my computer i cant resize to post in the gallery...so here they are :) lucky you...getting to see them too ...haahaa

anybody there?

just checking...i know i dont post regularly enough to be interesting so its ok...i understand!

im thinking about making this a book blog?

maybe if i win this...
http://megwaiteclayton.com/1stbooks/?p=55#comment-130

Another super cute outfit!

Nantucket Weekend GIVEAWAY!!!!

Dont worry...im going to post these ALL the time! If you want to see how cute it is though...you really should click through :)

cardstock makes me happy...

well pretty much any paper...lol

Cool lady Lisa D is giving away cardstock...so Im recommending you go read her blog! Shes funny and cool and makes great pages too!!

Plus she used to have blue hair...lol

Done!!

Finished last night...2AM...its freakin 740 pages!!

now i get to go read all the stuff people are saying about it...apparently its controversial..haahaa Seriously, its her book, shes the author, she gets to write HER VISION.

Oh and I want to win this...cause really, its the cutest thing EVER

PaperDoll Frock

So in love with handmade!!

This is super adorable...and I have two baby girls just this size!!

Popcorn Bloomer and Blouse GIVEAWAY !!!!!!!

and this one....would look fantastic on a certain girl who lives for dresses...

fields-of-gold-frock-giveaway

Buy old not new...

Mostly I think I will just keep blogging about all the new "hobbies" i keep getting myself into!

Vintage...to me means something old, well loved, beautiful, quirky, colorful or memorable.

So yesterday I went "thrifting" to see what i could find. I dont live in town thats particularly "vintagey" but I thought i would give it a go!

I found a pretty totebag (handmade by someone else), a white pyrex bowl (my current collecting obsession) and a quirky mug holder (that says MUGS..lol). Pretty happy with my finds!

Than i was on etsy...i cant stay away. And found a lovely girl (PonyParty)selling THESE:
Why would I be excited about these? Cause they are my gramas plates!! I bought these and messaged her for more...shes on the hunt for me now!! Oh...and she threw in some GORGEOUS green Pyrex (no i dont know where the obsession came from)! Im so excited to have these lovely treasures...and Rachel was great to work with! amylynn...you need to check out her stuff...i saw stuff i wanted to buy you...if i was rich... HAHAA

So...old stuff is cool...and no i cant do this ALL the time...but I got a little bonus...paid off another bill...and got a tiny treat...yah me!!