Happy Mother's Day!

Hope that you all had a wonderful day with your families today.
My son Ryan made his first Holy Communion today. Here is a shot of my handsome little man:

Here are some other shots of our day.

Here's the whole gang:

My parents (on the left) with Mike's folks (on the right):

A picture of me and Ryan:

And my hubby with RJ. Don't my guys look so handsome?

Today's a good day to share a page I made for the current Dreamgirls challenge with this month's Treasured Scrapbooking kit:





Have a good one!

Feeling better lately

Spring has sprung here in New England. The sun has been shining, the daffodils are blooming and it's hard to stay in a funk when the world feels new. Thank you to all my friends for the well wishes during this difficult time. My hubby has been on a few different interviews and hopefully will be hearing something soon.

I am waiting to hear when my official start date for full time will be at my current job. There are two of us waiting for a position. And only one approved at this point.
But I am blessed to work with a kind woman, one who is willing to let me take the full time position ahead of her, because she knows how much we need it. Not everyone is that selfless. I get choked up thinking about it. Heaven holds a special place for people like her.

It has been unseasonably warm here the past few days, reaching highs in the 90s!
The other day I packed a picnic lunch and took Tommy down to the local lake. Of course I brought my camera along. We had a great time playing in the sand.





Then we went to the playground, where there is this "rock climbing" wall. Tommy cracked me up because he was yodeling to himself as he climbed up the ladder. Where does he come up with this stuff?


I've been scrapping and finally feeling like I've done a few things worth sharing.

First are a few layouts for I Am a Scrapaholic:






The Crate Papers and the embellishments in this kit are just delicious. Here's a few sneaks of another page:




Don't forget, Dreamgirls has moved!
Here is my layout for the current challenge:



Hope you'll come check us out!
Getting late here, so I'm shoving off.

When life hands you lemons...

I've been handed a lot of lemons lately. I'm doing my best to make some lemonade.
That's why I haven't blogged lately.

Just before we left for vacation, my husband learned he will lose his job at the end of this month. We didn't see it coming and we're still sorting out what we're doing next. We kept it secret from my parents and the kids and put on our game faces. We had a wonderful time, put life on hold for a week. But since we've been back, reality came knocking.

The uncertainty has been weighing heavily on my mind and I know I haven't been myself.

As a result, my creative mojo has gone on hiatus the past several weeks. I've spent a lot of time reading and just lurking around on the computer to let my brain just rest a bit. I've sat out the past few Dreamgirls challenges and taken some time off from some MOSD. Thank you to my team mates there for being so supportive.

Well, it's late here - I worked the evening shift and needed to just decompress for a while. Stay tuned for some DT projects, coming soon.

I'm back!

I know it's been forever since I've blogged. This month has been a frenzy of activity with our trip to Disney World in Florida. I have TONS of pictures to share from our vacation, but I'm going to save them for another post.

Today, I want to share some sneak peeks with you from the upcoming April Scrap for a Cure kit.

Here's a sneak of the kit:


and here's a sneak of one of my pages with the kit:





If you want to see more sneak peeks, hop on over to the rest of the SFAC DT blogs. We are all posting some awesome previews of what's to come...