HAPPY 8TH BIRTHDAY MELODY!!!!

It's my baby's birthday!!! Well, she's not so much a baby anymore, she's 8 YEARS OLD!!!! Whooooo hooooo!!! Here are some pictures over the years.


2001 ~ 1 day old in her isolette at the Special Care Nursery (NICU for all my american friends)


2002 ~ 1 year old:


2003 ~ 2 years old:


2004 ~ 3 years old:


2005 ~ 4 years old:


2006 ~ 5 years old:


2007 ~ 6 years old and ready to drive!!:


2008 ~ 7 years old:


2009 ~ almost 8 in this picture:

I hope you had a great birthday weekend and I can't wait to see how much bigger you look when you turn 9 next year. Speaking of tall!!! This child is up to my shoulder at only 8 years old!!!!! She's so going to tower over me in the next few years. LOL

Mmmm A Herb Garden

I started my herb garden today. In a few weeks, I will have lemon basil, dill, chives and sage in the plastic egg carton that is now filled with soil. I can't wait to track the daily progress of these and use them in some yummy recipes!! Yummy!!!

Lotro Screenshots

I was going through some screen shots on LOTRO (lord of the rings online) that Daniel and I play, so I thought I would share some of my favourite ones. I play a elven level 60 champ named Meridee who is in the kinship Auth Daug Noss on Landroval. I lubs my kin.

OH MY!!!!!!

Aizen got caught red handed eating out of the green bin today! He has started his coffee addiction early... that's right he has coffee grinds on his mouth and my mom caught him and Of Course!! had to get pictures of it. I love the look on his face in the 2nd picture, isn't he adorable?

The coffee grinds are starbucks as well. hehe

They're Home

My mom and brother were finally able to get back into their apartment tonight. Daniel drove them down and I assume they are settling in. I can't remember if I blogged about it but there was a fire at their apt. building in mid March and they have been with us since.

The kidlets have enjoyed having them here and Melody had a hard time falling asleep, she misses them so much already. It will be a big shock to Aizen tomorrow when he finds out they aren't here.

I hope things go well for them and little details get sorted out and stuff. I hope they can get back to normal life easily again and that they will come and see us again soon.

Love ya mom and Phil =)

Future Starbucks Junkie

Aizen loves to carry around empty cups and bottles. He will have a full out fit if he sees a starbucks cup and you don't give it to him right away. So, here he is with his washed out cup, happy as a clam, look at that content little face!! I see a future starbucks junkie in the future, he's already addicted to the oatmeal raisin cookies. /giggle

My mom took this picture of melody and I think it's just stunning, she's such a pretty little girl!!

The Twirly Skirt !!!! and Happy Mama's Day =)

It's a bit late but HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!!!

Here is the twirly skirt I mentioned in a previous entry. She is SO happy and has been spinning in it for days. =D

And yes Shauna!! I can make Katelyn one, just send me her waist size and how far it is from her waist to the middle of her calf. You pay the shipping, I'll do the sewing?? =)

Now I'm On A Sewing Binge

I am learning that I go in cycles with my interests. I get really focused on one thing and do it in excess until I am tired of doing it, move onto the next one and then the cycle repeats itself. After awhile I come back to the original one and right now it is sewing.

In the past couple of days I have made a twirly skirt for Melody (I will get a picture of her in it soon, just finished it last night) and 3 grocery bags. I still need to get pictures of those ones as well. I'm not allowed to buy any more cute fabric until my current stash is gone..... whah!!!! cry!!! booo!!!!! /giggle

I am learning all kinds of new things as I sew my bags and I am getting better with my sewing. I put a new little list on my side bar of the things I want to get accomplished craft wise this year.

So, what have you been up to that is crafty?

Spring Skirt For Melody

I am using up my scraps of fabric and made a strip fabric style skirt for Melody. You pretty much sew up scraps side by side, then add a bottom, top and stick an elastic in it. Super easy.

Took a couple hours because I don't have a serger and had to using the pinking sheers and iron all of the seams. Boy, I sure do dislike using the iron, but it's totally worth it to see the results and how great the seams look when the skirt is finished.

I'll be making some more skirts and am having fun working through my stash of fabric. I have some other projects on the list and I'll get to those when the kidlets give me some time to get sewing.

Happy day my friends!!

Baking Binge!!

I've been on a baking binge the last 2 days. Yesterday I made some yummy oatmeal banana muffins and applesauce cake. YUMMY!!!!! Today I made peanut butter cookies, coconut muffins and oatmeal coconut cookies.

Half of them are in the freezer for another day and our family is enjoying the rest. Melody is mad because she only gets one treat a day and wants to eat them ALL!!! /giggle Aizen loves muffins and had saucer eyes when I handed him a whole one. He quickly shoved it into his mouth and started singing. He shortly realized he couldn't put it all in his mouth so he took it out and started taking bites. Simply adorable.

Happy Birthday Sweet Ruby

Today would have been Ruby's 4th birthday. It's hard to believe that this is the 3rd birthday without her. I wonder what my little girl would be like. What would she look like? Would she have long beautiful brown hair like her sister? Would she be into dance, athletic, artistic, smart? Who would she continue to look like? Would she know her abc's or 123's yet? Would she have ever talked?

I'm sad thinking about another birthday without her, I just want my baby girl back. It sucks that I cannot have her here with us. She is spending another birthday in Jesus' arms instead of mine.

I'll post later today and tell you how her day went but until then....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET RUBY!!!!!!!

We Found J-Town!!!!!!!

I am in Bento HEAVEN!!!!! Daniel has a customer at Harknett who tipped us on a little place called J-Town that is near us, super cute little Japanese shops, man, did I have fun. We went today to check it out and primarily to see if they had a good price on sushi rice (and they do!!!) and for bento boxes. Everything we bought at the stores was only $40.00 !!!! We got a lot, whooo hoooo!!!!! I even recognized a few kanji symbols on the packaging.

What is a bento box you ask? Bento is like a lunch box that has a few different boxes stacked on top of one another that you put your yummy food in. It is typically served cold and you can do all kinds of combos, the more creative the better. I was reading on a blog that it is quite popular for moms to be a bit competitive on how kawaii they can make the bentos look. They often have little characters or scenes made out of food. Just google bento and you'll see some very cute things.

Melody wanted a bento box for use in grade 3 and for her birthday. Well we found the cutest little 3 tiered bento box for her lunch and a single click one for her snack.

I also found some super kawaii (cute in japanese) rice molds. One that you can make 2 triangular ones and the others are of 2 little boys and a bear. I am squealing with excitement at how much fun this is going to be!!!!

We also went to the little grocery store there and picked up a few items. We got sushi vinegar, a bamboo sushi mat, rice crackers with nori snacks and I got a red bean paste rice ball. That may sound super odd to you but it was DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!

So here are the pictures of what I got in terms of bento box stuff.

The yellow one is the 3 tiered bento box, the small pink and white clicky, and the rice molds:


Rice molds:

The close up of the bear and boy rice molds:

One of the containers has a divider that you can take in and out. So, those are the 3 boxes with lids. It is all held together on the side with a little clip system. Typically bento boxes are held together with a fabric elastic around them, but Melody will be 8 when she starts grade 3 and this seemed to be the best idea for her.

The snack bento clicky.

Can't wait to start posting pictures of bento stuff we make on the weekends. Sinora!!!

What's Happening On Your Monday?

We have had a chill day so far. We've been doing some reading, computer games, car races, egg tossing (plastic ones), cleaning up of rooms, toy area picker uppage, some cooking, ball tossing, and lots of other things.

I need to do laundry, get the dishwasher loaded and vacuuming of the kiddos rooms. Anyone wanna come and get the laundry done for me, I have no energy to get that done today. /giggle

So, what's happening on your Monday? Anything fun? Interesting?

Happy Easter

Another year has come around and I am reminded of my daughter not being with us again. Easter is hard for us. Ruby was born Easter weekend of 2005 and there is always that reminder now that she will never spend another Easter with us. She is a very lucky girl and gets to spend her Easters with her Saviour, the reason why we celebrate Easter.

I want to encourage you to really think about why you celebrate Easter this year. Are you chasin the bunny with eggs in hopes of chocolate or are you thinking of our Saviour who came to this earth and died a horrific death so that you could spend eternity with Him? It was an amazing sacrifice for Him to be seperated from Abba and live through constant persecution to become a sacrifice for my life and sins. I don't think that I could do it.

If you don't know Christ and want to spend eternity with Him, it's so very simple. All you need to do is pray and accept Christ into your heart, get yourself hooked up with a good church, read your bible and strive to live a good life that honours God. It may be hard at first and you may have to give up some things that you really love, but I tell you it's worth it. Think of the alternative, a life without Christ in hell. I don't what hell will be like but I know it's not with Christ so I tell you it's going to suck no matter what it is. Life is not easy as a Christian and you are constantly tempted and it's not an easy life, but it's so worth it, I promise you.

Have a Happy Easter and try to think about the sacrifice God made by having Jesus come here to die for us. If you really think about it you will realize just how amazing it was. Love you guys. =)

What Part Of Spring Are You?

I really enjoy doing the quizzes on blogthings.com and this one I felt was appropriate since I have about 2 cm of snow in my backyard..... lol.... it was spring.... last week haha. Take it and let me know what one you are. =)

So this is what part of spring I am:


You Are Blooming Flowers

You are an optimistic person by nature. In even the darkest times, you are hopeful about the future.You feel truly blessed in life and can sometimes be overwhelmed with emotions.You have an artist's eye. You are always looking for beauty in the mundane.You have a good sense of aesthetics, especially when it comes to shapes and color.

Sealing Ribbon Edge Video

So here is the post I promised about sealing the "V" edge on the ribbon, enjoy!!

Melody's Newest Bow

Here is the newest bow to Melody's collection. It has 5 layers and it matches a shirt that nana bought her. It was a lot of fun to make and I think that I have found a way to seal the edges when doing a "V" cut on it so that it doesn't look funky. I'll be experimenting and post my results later on today and I'm thinking of doing a little video to show you. =)

Aizen's New Hair Cut!!!

Aizen looks like a new boy!!! I buzzed his hair today while doing Daniel's and he sat through it and didn't fuss at all.

I've been wanting him to have a little boy haircut for a long time but just hadn't found any time to sit down and do. And you know toddlers, you can't get them to sit for more than a few seconds. I can see it now.... Aizen running around the house with just a diaper on, mommy chasing him with the clippers, the giggles and laughs, little chops of hair done looking like he had done it himself..... yeah right!!!

I also did it because lately it's been causing me a lot of pain to look at him. He looks SO much like Ruby from the behind and I would burst into tears when I looked at him. I miss my little girl so much and so the hair needed to change. Well here are the before and after. Isn't he handsome??

Aizen ~ TOTAL Adrenaline Junkie

I didn't realize until I was watching the video back that you can't move the video "clockwise" like you can a photo. lol.... so to watch this video just prop your head to the right and it will look all good.

Aizen is my total adrenaline junkie baby. He LOVES to be tossed around and Daniel was doing this with him, by accident at first, but Aizen loved it so much that he kept leaning back for more. Enjoy!!

Melody Is Feeling Better

.... just what the title said. She is still congested from all the fluids in her ears but she is happy and perky. I like having my little girl back. She has gone over 36 hours with no fever and we are continuing with the antibiotics. She goes back to see Dr. Patterson in 2 weeks to make sure her ear infection has cleared up. Thanks to everyone who has been praying for her, I couldn't have gotten through this time without you. Blessings. =)

I Made A Bow Holder & Melody's ER Visit

This stuff happened on Monday, I just realized this post is at 12am on Wednesday. hehe

Melody has been pretty sick since Thursday evening. She had a fever that lasted the weekend (well technically she still has it) and Sunday she starting vomiting. Yesterday, she got really splotchy on her skin and something was very off. She went from vomitting once an hour to ever 20-30 minutes for 3 hours.

So, I took her into the ER with my father in law, Daniel stayed home with Aizen. They had him register her and we went straight to a room. Guess what room we went to?? The room that they resuccitated Ruby in. Boy was that hard, it turned out to be a good thing in the end. I got to look at where everything was and process what might have happened and how they knew where everything was. I was able to control my panic attack. I thought if it is urgent enough for them to get her into this room, then I need to deal with being in the room so she can get the care she needs.

The doctor we had was fantastic with her. Melody has an anxiety disorder and she was Terrified to get an IV. She was Very dehydrated. So, the doctor worked with me on this and she was given a drug to make her really dopey and sleepy. They also used a cream called Emla at my request. It basically numbs the skin so that you don't feel the needle going in.

It took 4 hours to hydrate her and 1200 mL of iv fluid. She was like a different child after being hydrated. She is doing Great today. She still has her fever. She ended up having a double ear infection. =( She played spore, wanted to do homework when she heard it was coming home, drank lots of water, had crackers and rice pudding. Please continue to pray for her. She is still congested and feeling bleh but her spirits are up.

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So, yesterday morning while she wanted my company I decided to make her a bow holder for all the bows I have been making lately. THANK YOU MEL!!!! for all the ribbon, it has come in SOOOO handy. So this is what it looks like and Melody helped me pick out all the little buttons and where to put them on the main part of the yellow bow. I can't wait for the alligator clips to arrive in the mail so that I can attach them and when it gets nicer she can wear them.

I used a wooden dowl on the main ribbon with the buttons to make it straight and not floppy and glued on everything else. The heart, flower and butterfly were bought at Michael's awhile back and we jazzed them up. It was a lot of fun to make.

I See A New Addiction Starting!!!

I am addicted to making bows!!!!! It first started with the korker bow I made Melody for Christmas time and now I have started to take it up again after a hat making binge.

One of my friends (Melanie) on CMF sent me some korker ribbon and other ribbon and I've just recently wanted to play around with it. I have found some free and bought a few tutorials on boutique bow making. Here is the one I found most helpful. It's a little store called Little Tootsie Boutique on YouCanMakeThis. It has LOTS of pictures and really easy to understand instructions. It has like 90 pages of instructions for around $8.00!!!!! I like that because I am a visual learner.

Korker bows are a lot of fun and you really can't mess them up to make them look bad. The other bow that I folded isn't perfect but I'm pretty proud of myself for not giving up on it and the bow turned out really pretty.

Melody picked out some ribbon a bit back and asked me to make the korker bow for her birthday.... it's 2 1/2 months away!!! I love that kid.

Mr. Skametti Face

When Mel was younger she would called spaghetti, skametti. I have had this odd thing with Aizen where at home I can't handle him being dirty, food on himself etc. I get very anxious when he does and I wonder if it has to do with my germ phobia. Something to go into more detail when I see my therapist next. I've been feeding him for the past 19 months so he doesn't get dirty.

I figure the best way to get over this is to just sit there and watch him get dirty. Well, here is my Mr. Skametti Face, do you think he enjoyed dinner?

Went To Mums And Cubs

Huge praise for me. I went to the Mums and Cubs group at our church on Friday for the first time with Aizen. This is a really big step for me in my recovery. Since having my breakdown I have developed a few anxieties, one of them being a social anxiety. I know now that I have always been an introvert, you would have never know had you known me, but I was. I was the life of the party, the one to make everyone feel welcome, the out going and fun loving person. I had put that mask on to truly hide the small child inside who was craving the attention of someone, anyone who would give me positive attention.

I've always felt very inadequate and I'm dealing with things that my dad said to me when I was younger about not fitting in or never being able to have normal relationships because I wasn't worth it. I have always felt like less of a mom when around other moms who had it together. I have come to the realization that there is no mom who has it all together and the ones who seem to are the ones hiding the most.

So, I went to the Mums and Cubs group and I enjoyed myself. I saw a few familiar faces and met some new people. I had so much anxiety the days before it and am glad that I "forced" myself to go. I almost didn't at the last minute but I know it was a spiritual attack. I'm looking forward to going back next Friday and forming some new friendships. I really do want to be social and for Aizen to have little buddies his age. I need the fellowship of moms who can support one another and not judge, compare or belittle anyone because of their life circumstances.

Huge step in my recovery and a very positive one!!

Kid's Craft Nook Organized!!

Got to organizing the kid's craft nook this weekend. Melody has free reign over the crafts and recently has been just shoving stuff back into the nook cause there really wasn't a designated space for it. So, I got busy while she was at a birthday party. 3 trips to the dollar store and here it is. Click on the picture to see what is contained in each of them. I'm going to leave them labeless so that i can rearrange as needed. Now... to finish organizing my craft nook upstairs!!!

Happy Valentine's Day

Just wanted to wish all my friends a happy and blessed Valentine's Day. I hope everyone has a good day. Please continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

It's My Anniversary!!!!

Today is a happy and sad day for me. The sadness is that I share my wedding anniversary with the day my daughter was taken off of life support. It's hard to believe that on this day, 9 years ago!!!! I was walking down the aisle to get married to my sweetie.

I dreamt about what my wedding would be like from a very young age. I look back at it and I would have spent a TON of money on that day if I did what I wanted as a child. Our wedding was wonderful, special, romantic and tailored to fit the two of us.

We have been through a lot these past 9 years. There have been so many things that we have faced that would have broken up many marriages but we have stayed together and are so much stronger and united through it all. I love Daniel so much and I am so blessed to have him in my life. I praise Abba for bringing such a wonderful and godly man into my life to walk beside me through it.

I can't wait to celebrate more anniversaries and one day I'll be sitting in a porch swing with my helpmeet, holding his hand and remembering our life together.

Here are a few pictures of our wedding. This first one of me walking down the aisle is my favourite picture that has ever been taken of me. There is one of the ceremony and us newly married.

Roo's Going Home Anniversary

It's hard to believe that this day is here again. It is our second year without our precious Ruby. I think about it and has 2 years really gone by? Where did the time go? It seems like only yesterday that I was holding her in my arms as they took her off of life support. I can vividly remember singing to her and encouraging her to go home to Jesus as my tears dripped on her face.

There are so many things I wish that I could be doing with her right now. I know she is safe but my heart just aches wanting to hold her again. She would be a very different girl than the one who died. She would have changed so much. She would be talking, learning her abc's and numbers, getting ready for kindergarten, cooking and baking with me, taking care of her little brother, pestering her older sister, making snowmen, learning to read and so many other things.

But to me she was a little toddler who barely talked, who hummed her sentences, was spunky and loved to get cheerios from the pantry to eat under the table. She loved to play in the mirror and peek a boo with her purple blankie I made her. She loved to poke at my lips and have me sing, we looked at the stars every night before going to bed and I sung her "You Are My Sunshine" every single night of her life. Even when I was sick or in a bad mood, I would sing that song to her and she would beam. Most nights it got sung a lot, her little eyes would start to flutter as she got sleepy but she would always poke my lip for me to sing it one more time.

I miss my daughter so much that it hurts. Why was she the one who had to die? Why did this happen to our family? I know that God never gives us anything we cannot handle but boy do I ever question Him on that one still. I have had countless opportunites to minister to other grieving mama's. The Lord is like that, whatever you go through is for His glory and one day you will be able to use it to minister to someone in need. I have always been in ministry in one fashion or another and I believe that this is my new calling. First was sunday school teacher, then travelling drama ministry, youth leader and now grief ministry. No one truly understands how a grieving parents feels unless they have lost a child themselves, and I have such an aching and compassionate heart to those who are hurting. I wonder what else Abba has in store for my life. Only time will tell and I pray that He comes back soon so that I can be reunited with my family and other children (I've also had 2 miscarriages that I know of besides Roo's death).

Today we will be doing things to honour her life. It seems so harsh to me to call it a death anniversary, so I prefer to call it her "Going Home Anniversary" for that is where she is, she is home, in Heaven, worshiping her Saviour and celebrating that she has been in His arms for 2 years now. It doesn't make it any less painful not having her here, but I am comforted knowing that if she misses me, she can crawl into her Saviour's lap and be comforted.

I'll be making her favourite cookies. She loved it when I baked Soft Cranberry Cookies, she would do a little dance in the kitchen if she were up. I remember many occasions where she would be about 2 feet away from the oven door, her hands on her knees, sorta squatting, just peering in longingly to watch those cookies bake. Boy, I sure do wish she were here with me now to make them.

I'll be spending some time writing in her journal with her memory candle flickering. I do my daily journal to her so she can be with us in everything that happens during the day. I also use it for therapy and when I just need to get my emotions out about her death or just anything. I love being able to include her that way.

Our family will be going out to Swiss Chalet for dinner. My inlaws were so kind to give us a gift card for there. Her last summer here, we spent a lot of time over at my inlaws in the pool and whatnot; my inlaws would have us stay for dinner a lot and we'd go get swiss chalet. Ruby loved sitting at the table, picking at the chicken and veggies. She loved corn and broccoli and would eat those up before anything else. There were a few times where she was so tuckered out and would just fall asleep in her high chair, oh how I miss that!!!!

Well I am going to stop babbling for now. I made this video a long time ago but thought I would put the link up again for those who may be new to my blog and want to see a short video of her life. Please continue to pray for our family, it's a tough day to get through and I wish with all my heart that I didn't have to do this but I need to. Love ya chikkas!!!

One Room Blitzed!!!

Guess what I did for 3 hours today???

I cleaned Melody's room (with her help). Oh goodness did her room ever get messy, she has SO MANY little toys that it forever just to sort through them and put them in the different bins. She also has been making crafts with markers and kleenex when she should be sleeping, so those were fun to discover. LOL

It's Daniel's week off from his day job this week, so we have lots of plans for doing stuff around the house. It will be good to keep ourselves busy so we aren't obsessing about Ruby's death anniversary coming up in a few days. Please continue to lift us up in prayer so that we can make it through this sucky time, I don't like death anniversaries... they're well... sucky.

Love you guys!!!

Less Than A Week

It's so hard for me to believe that in less than a week it will be 2 years since Ruby was called home. Where in the world has the time gone? I can vividly replay our last day with her as if it were yesterday. The emotions aren't so raw and intense anymore, but I still remember those little details.

Please keep our family in your prayers. We are going through a lot atm. Melody will be starting a grief play therapy soon at Markham Stouffville Hospital. Thanks to my therapist they are able to get her in really quickly. I hope that it will be a good thing for her as grief is really hitting her and she is truly understanding the finality of death.

We have a busy week upon us. Daniel is on vacation and we have a house to get nice and clean. We have Ruby's death anniversary on the 12th, our 9th wedding anniversary to celebrate on the 13th and of course Valentine's Day on the 14th. It's a very emotional time for us. Our anniversary is very hard for me now as I consider that the day that Ruby died. She was taken off of life support very early in the am on the 13th.

I want my baby girl here. I want to be getting ready for her to be turning 4 and getting excited about kindergarten. This truly sucks to have to have a death anniversary but I know that she is safe in Heaven with our Saviour. I want her here so badly!!

An Affirmation

Back when I was on tour with Covenant Players, we performed at a church and on the back of the bulletin was this wonderful affirmation. I've kept it all these years and just now making it so that it can be hung and displayed in our home. It's just so beautiful and I felt that the fig tree would make a wonderful background. Here is what it says:

I will stand firm in the Lord today. Taking a mighty tree as my image, I will see myselfwell rooted in my faith and reaching out beyond myself.
My roots are deep, drawing nourishment from the Bible ~ the word of God ~ the Spirit,and the love of my Christian community.

My trunk is strong, supporting my limbs and branches with the thick growth of accumulated experience. Some rings on my trunk are narrow ~ from the difficult years. Some rings on my trunk arewide ~ from the years blessed with rich personal growth. My experiences allow me to treat others with compassion, knowing the range of their sorrow and joys. When threatening winds blow, my trunk can bend ~ yielding to a storm just enough for it to pass by without damaging my integrity.

My branches stretch high and wide, reaching toward the sky in a gesture of praise. As the tree offers a resting place and a home to birds and animals, so I can offer a refuge, friendship,and love to those around me today.
Today, I stand firm in the Lord. With the nourishment of the Word, the Spirit, and the love of my Christian community welling up in me, I am able to offer God's love, through me, to others.

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Mmmmmmm ...... Crayon!!!!!!

Aizen was being quiet so Daniel went to go find him. Of course he was up to no good. This is what we found. Daniel was off to clean him up and I ran to find the camera, stopping him to get pictures for scrapbooking. LOL

Daily Fun At The Smith House

Our daily fun at the Smith house is to have a jumping session on mommy and daddy's bed. The kids LOVE it, I took some video, it's dark in our room so it's not that great but you get to see how much fun the kids are having.

Ruby and Melody used to hold hands and jump on the be together all the time.

Wow, it's 2009

It just dawned on me that I haven't even posted in 2009 yet, so here it is. Can't sleep so I'm here writing to you guys. Last year was a hard year for us and so far it's been an up and down on. We went through a lot as a family last year and we are still healing from Ruby's death. It's a daily struggle to make it through but somehow we get through it.

Not feeling like typing much so I'm gonna head out and go check out scrapbooking links. Later taters!!