Sometimes we just need to smile! Raks make me smile

On a sad day or a out of sorts day a smile or laugh sure helps to brighten my day, it makes me feel so much better! I have worked at being positive and trying to keep a smile on my mom'a face. I love it when she laughs. It so great to see her spirit brightened and I feel she will soon be doing so much better as she goes home tuesday although still on the vent.

Now the person who I adore that can always make me smile and laugh. The fact is he makes many people laugh and smile and I know so many people who love him, that is my uncle Yogi!

My challenge to you is to make a layout about someone who makes you laugh and/or smile! Now I have no problem with you combining it with a challenge on another site but I would like it to be new so this is on the honor system! i AM GIVING A RAK WHICH i WILL DO A RANDOM DRAWING FOR! IT IS AN AWESOME RAK WHICH I AUCTULLY JUST WON MYSELF AND LOVE BUT I WANTED TO DO A RAK AND CANNOT AFFORD ON SO I DECIDED TO GIVE AWAY THIS ONE! BECAUSE I TRULY BELIEVE IT IS BETTER TO GIVE THEN RECIEVE!

nOW hERE IS MY EXAMPLE WHICH I ALSO DID AS A SCRAPLIFT CHALLENGE ON SO THE DESIGN IS SCRAPLIFTED!



tHANKS DREA! HERE IS HER LAYOUT ON HER BLOG! THESE ARE THE DAYS

HERE IS THE RAK! (all the papers are cut down to 4x4)


YOU MUST POST A COMMENT WITH A LINK TO THE LAYOUT, AND AN EMAIL ADDRESS OR BLOG. NEED SOMEWAY TO NOTIFY YOU IF YOU WIN. COMMENT WITH LAYOUT LINK MUST BE POSTED BY SATURDAY DECEMBER 6TH MIDNIGHT EASTERN TIME. ALSO IF YOU PASS THE WORD AND SOMEONE POST TELLING ME THAT YOU SENT THEM, FOR EACH PERSON THAT POST YOU SENT THEM I WILL ADD AN EXTRA CHANCE IN THE DRAWING!

A great sketch blog!

I stumbled on a great sketch blog several weeks back just as it first opened and added a link to my blog as part of their blog challenge and then in changing my blog around lost the link! So I readded that link today on the left side and thought I would also show you the layouts I did back then from sketch 1 and 2 on their blog!!

So check out Inspired Blueprints

AWESOME NEWS!

Today my mom went down for a swallow test to see if she can swallow well enough to not have to worry about getting food in the wrong tube due to the wrong pipe so to speak since having the trach, she had the test several weeks back and failed! She has not been able to drink or eat basically since august 8th!! she has a feeding tube!

Well she passed!!! she can have thin fluids and blended foods to start and with a speech therapist present a soft diet and then progress hopefully from there! She is so thrilled just to be able to drink water and COFFEE again!!! she has missed her coffee so much!!

I know this will improve her spirits!

It is really time for some good news!!!

Here are some new layouts I did!

I sure will be glad when I am home and have my scanner to use!! I hate having to take photos of my layouts!!!!

Hey God, I have reached my limit!

You know that the bible tells us that the Lord will not give us more than He and you can handle together! Well I am reminding Him that I have reached that limit!
Right now my brother, father, sister and I are taking shifts taking care of my mom to prove we are able so she can come home!

the Nurse practioners feel that she won't get better, she went downhill while I was home and has not been off the vent much but she also gets lousy care at intermedical! So we feel she will do better at home and feel she can improve and even some of the Respiratory techs feel that is possible!

I am discouraged that the house in Mn. has not sold yet also and money is so tight and being down with my mom is costing me also. We changed realtors also.

But I know things will Improve and that God is in control, I just needed to remind Him that I am about at the end of that rope!!!

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And as long as I am mentioning Scrap City you should also check out the great crop going on at the forum! SCRAPCITY

One last item! I have a good friend Jen who is a real sweet heart and she has given me a blog award! Thank you Jen!

Now I want to pass it on!
Wendy
Janice
Kayla
Stephy
Denean

I am in a crop! come join me!

Come over to Scrap 4 Life and join the crop

Here is a layout I have completed for the first challenge! I know it is simple but it was not an easy challenge for me!

The reason it was not easy is that the challenge is to do a layout on 10 things you are thankful for, today right after I decided how to do it and wrote down my items I am thankful for I got a call that my mom has gone downhill and has a very bad lung infection. The #1 on my list is answered prayer and that has been the answered prayer re: her and her health these past 3 months and also weaning her off the vent so I don't know where we are at now or will be at so I shed a lot of tears during this layout but it is also why I used the paper with Faith and believe on it because I have faith and have not given up believing!!

So those of you who follow my blog know I will continue to ask you to pray for her but also please pray for me as I an struggling hard with this! Also the nurse practioner that called me today tends to be very blunt and she even told my mom that this infection my kill her and my mom really has no one right now as she won't let them see her cry and she usually only cries when I am there! My brother said she just kept looking off in space! I leave to go back on thursday and I really can't go back before that! I am going to call and try to talk to her tomorrow although she won't be able to talk back. I know that GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL Reguardless of how negative the nurse practioner was and I know that I need to convince my mom of that!

Please forgive me for being so behind!

I came home for awhile to get my needed mri and shots and unfortanetly in that time my mom has not done as well. I feel bad but what can I do. I would ask you to continue to pray for the situation.

Also my dad had it in his head that we are all plotting against him. He has been confused lately and got very mad at me when I called him to tell him what the hospital my mom is staying at said about my moms release and what needs to be done for it. They are thinking of releasing her in about 3 weeks which will be about 2 weeks after I go back.

In the meantime I am enjoying seeing my family and being home and getting some important medical things taken care of!