A New Year?

A New Year?



So... another year has snuck up on me, and I was too busy, and too caught up in my life to make it noteable.



Or perhaps the commonness of everyday living IS what makes it noteable.



It's easy to find awesomeness in the awesome. It's a lot harder to find it in the ordinary. My ordinary, day-to-day existence leading up to Christmas and New Years, has been nuts, crazy, and definitely not awesome. Sometimes crazy takes over, and you lose track of all the good stuff. So... that's been my Christmas/New Years. I held on for dear life, and just rode the wave. When it was over... yep... I was sick in bed. STILL having to continue on, preparing for our trip. A last minute deal, coming up on the 3rd of January, '09. Yeow. Ok... do I want to take this trip? Nah. Not really. The warm weather will be nice... but I'm tired. More interested in staying home, relaxing... taking things easy. We were going, however... for my wonderful husband. Wait until you read about the trip! The last minute trip... which included getting our passports with ONE day to spare... and yes, I did say one day.

Here I am... back home... still feeling in need of a vacation. LOL But truly appreciating the warmth and heat, and vitamin D that washed over my body during that week in Cuba.

I'll post some pics... and none of me in a bathing suit. Nobody is ready for that.

And Another Thing...

I've gotten a tad more introspective. And with that in mind... I'll be working on classes for The Vision Board, in the new year. If you are interested, keep a watch. I think it'll be a wonderful journey... and one that will aid us in bringing an era of gratitude and prosperity and goodness into our worlds... even more than we currently enjoy. Fun!

This layout is called Sassy and Young. Yes... I once was young. I look back and think of all of the wishes and hopes and dreams that I had back then. How different would my life be, if I had created a Vision Board back then? How different would my life be, if I had read "The Secret"... brought the process into my life. My daily life? Had I moved in a constant pattern towards those wishes and hopes and dreams. And moreso.. had I drawn those same things TOWARDS me?

I drink my milk. I don't lament over it being spilt. So, I move forward and onward. And I will grab hold of the life I want now. And I will call my dreams to me.

Nowhere Near

Nowhere Near... and Yet So Close

So... I am nowhere near ready for Christmas.... and yet it is so close. How does it sneak up so quickly? How is it that one day, I am making the decision to shop early... and the next day, I'm already too late to be early. In fact... the day after that... I am running handily late.

Christmas. When I wasn't working... it was my most favourite time of the year. Now, I tend to try and fracture time to allow me to get my decorations up. It's a very stressful time of the year. When I enjoyed being a stay-at-home mom, I was able to make the time to do this, in a more stress-free manner. Made it much more enjoyable. However... wah wah wah. My cry is over... and I will go home... do my dishes that I didn't do last night... decorate... put away the storage containers that are currently in my hall... and tidy up. Then I'll crash... and hey. I'll get up in the morning, and start all over. :) OH... did I mention, hubby wants me to book us on a trip? Yeah. So.. I'll get that done in the meantime. He wants the trip done THIS MONTH. No pressure. Yeah. I can hear some of you... WHAT? You want us to feel sorry for you cuz you have to BOOK A TRIP??? yeah. I know it's asking a lot. Really. But it's still a stress WHILE I do it... DURING Christmas shopping, WHILE running a company... AND a home... AND being a Mom and wife. All while I battle chronic illness. That just is my fact. However... so many have it so much worse. And those of you, who don't have their spouses home with them for Christmas? I recognize you top that list. And my fun whine is just that. I know I'm blessed. I pray for those of you who have lost their spouse, or whose spouse is fighting a war. If you need special prayers (by name)... just let me know. I'll put your name down on my list... happily so.

And now for our DUH moment of the day.

OK... now.. have I managed to fit in scrapbooking in this life?

Duh.

If it's a life... it's gotta have scrapbooking in it.

Here are a few of my latest pages.

Head on over to this blog!

Hey guys... Head on over to this blog. She's giving away a great RAK of stamps. YUMMO!!!!! While there... have a read. I'm such a blog addict.

http://kd-designs.blogspot.com/

Oops.

Ooops. Just How Old AM I?

I appear to have gotten my age wrong. LOL ach. At least... I am now younger than I thought I was. I was sure I was one age... (remember... I"m not telling anymore)... and here I found out... Nope. The news isn't as dastardly as I had originally thought. Whew. I can breath a younger sigh of relief. Not much younger, mind you... but younger.

In keeping with the whole theme of Age... Here's a page I just did called "Youth and Yesterday".

The journaling goes around the edges, and it says:

I had so many dreams at this age. I thought that one day I would marry a good man, have a family, write, be a woman of faith, be the best Mom I could be. So many dreams all those years ago. What mattered then, still matters to me today.

Happy Birthday to Me

November 2nd. -- All Souls Day!



Today... I turned...



One year older. It's funny how as young people, we want desperately to appear older than we are. When we get older... we try desperately to appear younger than we are. Today... my mirror should come with a warning! "Things in the mirror appear older than they are".



I got some nice presents for my birthday. My son bought me a gift certificate to my favourite clothing store. He bought it with his own money. So.. I bought myself some nice things. :)



Hubby? He bought me beautiful flowers first thing in the morning, and made reservations at our favourite booth at a new restaurant. It was a lovely day. But birthdays just don't mean much to me anymore. It just means older. The birthday I love to celebrate? Christmas and my son's birthday. Christmas for obvious reasons. My son's birthday? Well, because that's a date I remember being there for. That's a day I remember vividly. I remember him coming into the world. I remember looking at him. Wondering at him. I remember the love... the awe... the absolute heart-wrenching and painful love that consumed me the first glance of him. I remember that day, oh yes. Now THAT'S a birthday I like celebrating.

The Big Snip

The Big Snip

I did a new layout of Beauregard. I called it "The Big Snip". Three guesses as to what it's about??? Now that he's fixed, we've started taking puppy classes. And he's doing surprisingly good!!! Go figure. I would never have expected it. He's much smarter than he appeared to be. Which... sadly means that we are much dumber. The tail has definitely been wagging the dog in my home. It is what it is... and hopefully we'll get a bit smarter, along with the dog.

At first, we decided that Gary would lead him in the classes and I'd just watch. Once we got there, however... Gary benched himself, and sent in the farm team. So.. it's me and Beau... with Gary watching from the comefy chair on the side, with an X-lrg Tim's coffee. What a guy. Beau and I are coming to terms with the class, expectations, and which of us is the dog.. and which is the tail, exactly. We're still arguing about it.

Here's the layout. "The Big Snip"... The poor little guy had that nasty cone on. I felt bad. :( So.. I grabbed an old soft t-shirt of mine... cut out some head room, and shortened it, etc... and put it on him. Hey, at least it meant he could have a bit of a break from the conehead. This dog has wormed his way into our hearts in such a major way. His funny monkey face, makes us smile. He's got such a major attitude that he also makes us crazed. What a dog.