Wow, I thought this blog was long gone lost in cyberspace! How weird to have happened upon it purely by chance 3 years later! I have it bookmarked so maybe, just maybe, I can get a few more thoughts in this year?

I'm working on Christmas cards!First time in 10 years and it's getting down to the wire to get them out in time. Nothing new for me right? Anywho, I'm trying to get the last 3 assembled so I best finish this up. Hope to post pics later. 

Hugs everyone!

today I'm adding pictures of my craft room. My hubby has been very sweet about putting up with my wants and wishes for this room since we have so many other "more important" projects we want/need to do in our home. Thank you Mike! Ilove you!!!

wow is this pathetic or what? my last post was over a year ago...sheesh! Maybe I'll do better this year???????

Hi all,

I've been working on my Facebook page and hope you will look me up there. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=100000554770986

In the coming year I hope to keep my blog more up to date and add more pictures. I like to make personalized candles for my Compassionate Friends and learning how to make vinyl decals on my Cricut. I just got a Cricut Expression to hopefully expand my horizons in crafting. I love scrapbooking but think I'll concentrate more on cardmaking this year. as you can see by my blinkie I'm a huge Papertrey Ink fan. I also have some Gina K Designs goodies but I prefer clear stamps.

holy buckets!!!

Oh my it's been soooo long since I posted anything! I think I tried too hard the first 'bout and will try this blogging thing again. A lot has happened since my last post and hopefully will have time to spend time on this over the weekend.

Tomorrow Zach starts Rituxn therapy for his lupus, very scary stuff but hopefully will put him into a lengthy remission. Tomorrow I'm calling the bank to raid my cd for money to get his car fixed. One more thing he doesn't need to worry about and hopefully we'll soon have the phone issue taken care of soon too. Sure would be nice if his dad would show some concern and help out but getting him involved is too much work for little to no return. 

Next weekend I go to my first Cricut storm up in Pine City. I'm sure it'll be lots of fun but I'm already feeling a bit ambivalent. It's scary for me to put myself into a situation where I don't know anyone much less an overnighter. I've been reading the posts on the blog and am convinced it'll be great but, I don't think I'll ever escape the feeling of being "different" from them. I think I'll do what Cori does when asked how many kids she has. She says "I had two children" vs "I have two children" and see if anyone catches on.

hope you all had a good weekend? Here's to this work week going by fast! Peace! 

Yesterday we received a wedding invitation for the same weekend my mom is coming up. Luckily she stays with my older sister. I felt bad because we really should go to the wedding but I didn't want miss her visit. This morning I sent her an email explaining the wedding invite (doesn't anyone send out those "save this date" notes anymore?), and is she planning on coming up again this year? I asked if she'd come up the second sunday in December when my Compassionate Friends group participates in the World Wide Candle Lighting, it's a very special thing for me to honor Hannah's memory at Christmas time. Her answer is "I'll try, depends on my work schedule". It's freakin April! Isn't that enough notice to request that weekend to be your weekend off? Thanks mom, I love you too...

mortgage update: We backed out and decided to work on our credit for another year. Fine by me, the whole thing immediately stressed me out. I don't like feeling that overwhelmed.

I also decided that I need to make Zach's car payments since the loan shows to be in my name even though I only co-signed. With him being so ill with lupus I'll just take care of it and he won't need to worry about it., be a lot less stressful for me too. I really hate calling him about it anyway so....

well, best get back to reality and continue on with the dreaded housework. Talk to you all later!