What is happening???

I am tired of feeling sad. After the awful massacre in Connecticut I realize that my problems are insignificant. My heart hurts for those people. And those babies.... What is happening in this country?! How can we tolerate a world where our children are mot safe in an elementary school?????
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WHAT ARE THE CHANCES????

December 28, 2009 I lost my dad to cancer. Nine weeks between diagnosis and death.

Today we were told my mother has bone cancer. Thankfully its not as aggressive as my dad's.

What are the chances of losing both parents to cancer?!?!?!

I don't even know what to say.


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DECEMBER DAILY

THese are the first 12 pages if my December Journal.


Pages 1, 3 and 5


Pages 2, 4, 6


Pages 7, 9 and 11


Pages 8, 10 and 12.

We are going to Disney from the 7th through the tenth so I made these pages with more writing space and space for pictures and "stuff". Plan to add the 2013 Disney pin to the page.

The pages are not decorated. I figured Id embellish it as I go.

Some pages are made on cardstock and some from different weight chipboard.

December Daily

I have received questions on the December Daily.  I have 12 pages of it done so far.  I have another 19 to go!!  I am using an 8 3/4 x 8 3/4 chipboard album which is not too big but not so small that I feel claustrophobic!

I am using the City Sidewalks paper line by Pink Paisley which I love.



I will post the first 12 pages either later tonight or tomorrow.  The great thing about this type of journal is that although I will make all the pages - I will only be doing the backgrounds.  I have all month to add ephemera to my journal; pockets to add receipts and christmas cards.  Lots of room for pictures.

Maybe you want to add envelopes for those great family recipes that come out during the holidays.

This is the first year I've done this but I am really excited about it.

How about you?  Did any of you do a December Daily this year???

A GOAL TO HELP ME GET BY

For the first time this year I made a December Daily.  I have never been good at doing ANYTHING daily but for some reason this year I really wanted to do it and did.

I will admit to being madly in love with Oprah Winfrey.  Listening to Super Soul Sundays always leaves me feeling good for the rest of the week.

Today's show has reached into my very soul.  It spoke to me in a way that has impacted me greatly.

With Charlie in jail I had already determined that it was going to be an awful Christmas.  I just wanted to close my eyes and open them in January.  How can I look at beautiful christmas decorations, listen to christmas music with my son in jail?  It just wasnt going to happen.

Oprah's guests today discussed what I already knew but forget at times.  That we need to live in gratitude.  That living in sadness and negativity is not what God or the universe intended for us.

Every day in my December Daily I will make an affirmation of gratitude.  I will find something to be grateful for despite the despair and the hurt.  I will send out positive energy so that positive things can happen.

I will be grateful.

We are 10 with Jen!!

I am a poet!!!

Got confirmation by our sweet friend Jennifer Rogers-Daniels that she will be joining us in March at the Keys 4 Art Retreat in Key Largo!!!!!

Jen has been with us since the beginning and I know you are all as happy as I am that she will be joining us for our 4th year!!!

I getting so excited about this next retreat!!!

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Back from Cuba

Got back on Thanksgiving Day in time to spend the holiday with my family. This time I went for 3 weeks, the longest I have ever gone and I really did not want to come back.

I come home to find my son in jail on a violation of probation with no bond. The same lover... The addiction he cant seem to be able to control any longer. He has never spent time in jail.

I thank God he is there. Id rather visit him in jail than in a cemetery. I put him in Gods hands a long time ago.

But oh my Lord what it does to your soul to see your child in handcuffs.

I have absolute love for and faith in my God. But seeing my son like that I would make a deal with the devil to trade places with him.

All I can do is be there for him with a love that is intense and unconditional.


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