random thoughts... all free today

almost forgot...

i actually scrapped a few weeks ago.  so when you pick yourself up off the floor from fainting....check these out:

"We All Scream For Ice Cream!"

The title is a phrase we have no doubt, all heard. But it has two meanings for this LO. Yes, they screamed for ice cream but they also screamed when I made them put it in the freezer and eat it AFTER DINNER. What kind of ice cream truck comes around at dinnertime??? LOL

Journaling reads:
A hot summer day, a fistful of dollars and the warbled notes of "Popeye the Sailor" blaring through the hot sticky air. Nothing could've made these boys happier than that combination. too bad Momma spioled all the fun. "No ice cream until after dinner."

Products:
Cardstock: Bazzill
Pattern paper: Creative Imaginations
Brads: Making Memories
Alpha stickers: Basic Grey
Embroidery floss: DMC
Pen: American Crafts

"little me (at 3)"

Products:
Cardstock: Bazzill & Die Cuts With a View (circles)
Patterned paper: Gin-X Imagination Project
Letter stickers: Rusty Pickle
Chipboard: Basic Grey
Wooden number: Lil Davis
Rub-on: KI Memories
Pen: Sakura Souffle
Paint: Palmer

"I Love The Way You Twinkle"

Products:
Papers: Basic Grey - Figgy Pudding
Swirls: Fancy Pants chipboard (traced and cutout)
Cheeky shimmer stickers: Making Memories
Rhinestones: Heidi Swapp
Felt snowflake: sniped it from a B&BW gift basket I received for Christmas
Black Pen: Zig
White Pen: Sakura Souffle

woweeeee it's been QUITE some time...

can it be that my last post was NOVEMBER???  holy smokin aces.........someone knock me upside the head with a BIG OLE "you slacker" stick.  I can go on and and onnnnnn about how busy i've been, the drama that is my daily life, the "i don't really care if you read this or not" and the typical crap about being a "bad blogger".  If you care that much about my blogging, AWESOME.  if not?  I'm sure i'll live to see another day and not feel the LEAST bit guilty about ANY OF IT.  Bigger fish to fry people, or as my daddy likes to say PRIORITIZING.

i've had quite a few emails as of late from dear friends that want to know how i'm holding up.  i'm here.  i'm coping.  some days it's not a problem and others it knocks me straight on my ass.  between dealing with ex#1 and his court proceedings and ex#2 and HIS need for professional therapy i'd say i'm doing pretty darned good.  some days royally SUCK and others i'm top of the world.  thus is life and truly?  THIS WILL MAKE ME STRONGER.  I have had my fair share of bullshit in the last 33 years of my life and if NONE OF THAT could tear me down then THIS WON'T EITHER. 

My word for the year:  ENDURE

so this is what i do most days when it's tough to handle whatever is thrown at me.  i endure.  i take it on, i cope, i deal (or not) and i let it go.  every day i endure and for now that's all i can do.  keeping my head above water and making sure my kids are happy and healthy and have a momma that would do anything for them and does.  this is my short list of goals.  and if at the end of the day my short list is complete, i'm a happy and successful woman.  Mission accomplished.  So far so good.

so to those of you that are worried and wondering.  i'm here.  i'm dealing.  and i am most definitely ENDURING.  if you want the sordid details, shoot me an email or IM.  I'm here and ya'll KNOW how much i love to talk.  ;)

peace my peeps...

~h