Friends

I have a visit with a friend today. Wan't planned, she just need to pick something up. It was a nice visit but it made me think of this poem

Are Your Friends Here for a Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime?

Anonymous

Many of us are fortunate enough to have friends who are a consistent part of our lives throughout all our ups and downs. However, sometimes others we consider friends appear to enter, then depart from our lives for reasons we try to, but don't always, understand. This piece nicely explains the flow of people in and out of our lives.

It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person.

When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend, and they are! They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part, or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered. And now it is time to move on.

Then people come into your life for a SEASON, b ecause your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. They bring you an experience of peace, or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons: things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.

Some days I feel lonely and thing about friends that I have had in the past and why or relations ships have changed an my part in it.

I have been on facebook for a while now. Can't even tell you when it started but it has been maybe 8 months or so. I have about eighty friends but lately I find myself connecting with childhood friends or what I find even stranger is the children of childhood friends or old friends. One of these days I will have to invite thier mom's to coffee. Alas, they are not on facebook.

Wow, it has been a while.

What do they say about life getting in the way. It seems to have happened again. I had hoped to post some of my work here and it has not happened yet.

I think the biggest reason is that we decided to re-do my craft room. I mean really re-do. Knock a wall out and all. We pulled everything out of the room except for the carpet and knocked down the wall between the laundry room and the craft room. I now have a larger craft room and a smaller laundry room and would be believe it was all my hubby's idea. He had to approach me twice with the idea before I went for it.

I am going to see if I can find some photos to add to this post so that you can see what it looks like in progress. I don't have any finished photos because it is still a little messy in here.

In my attemps to put everything back in place I decided that it was time to tackle all the photos in here. I had gone to the LSS and taken a class on organizing your photos. I have to admit it was nothing new, I had heard all the ideas before but I had never done anything with them. This time I did. Big time. There are still a few little strays here and there but that is about it. Of course now that they are neat and organized and easy to grab to scrapbook any photo I want, I have no desire to go near a photo. I did do some swap cards tonight.

Well I guess that is it for now. Hopefully I get some stuff done now and start posting more regularly

The Party

Kenny had his end of the year celebration with his friends from school (delayed on week due to being grounded). The plan was to order pizza and hang out. It was to be his first boy/girl party. He had invited 4 girls and only two where able to come. Gabby was at a camp and Kendra was at the cottage. Sarah and Natalie where expected. Sarah was here first. When we had not seen Natalie by 6:15 we called and she said she was not coming. Poor Sarah. I said to Sarah that if the boys drive you nuts you could call home to have your Mom pick you up. She was ready to go home. I can't blame her. The boys where all wound up and running around, making noise and play fighting with swords. I would want to go to. Actually I would have if I could have. She called her Mom who of course was not home. Her Mom did show up about 20 minutes later to save her and you have never seen a kid run so fast out the door. I don't think her feet hit the deck.

The boys, of course, partied on without her. They swam in the pool which is only as high as their waists, jumped on the trampoleen, had a water gun fight and played a game where someone is murdered and you have to guess who did it by asking questions. Kenny had found the game in his boys survival book. Oh, and they ate. We had ordered some pizzas and garlic bread and I made a fruit tray and Kenny made the dip. They had a hoot.

The one thing I forgot was that I caught two of the boys trying to moon Nicole and her friends. Nicole was holding the camera waiting to take a picture. Boys.

Kenny, Branden, Kyle, Brett, Baliegh, Austin had a nice night.

OK, being new to this blogging stuff I could not figure out how to go back and add a photo to my last post so here is the photo of our new little piggy, Oreo.

He and GP are all set up in one cage now. I had to wait until Fawn came over to inspect his assets just to confirm that he was boy. It is always good to get a second opinion. I really love the pig but I really don't want more than a couple.

A new little Piggy in town.

Yesterday the kids and I hopped into the truck and drove to London in search of a new little piggy. I found an ad on www.kijiji.com for guinea pigs. She had four beautiful little Piggys and all where so different from each other it was amazing. I am still learning about guinea pigs. First they had a little fluffy black one that was taken, then a black and brown fuzzy one that looked like a little teddy bear. He was my favourite. The third was a smooth haired brown and black one that if he had a tail at all you would swear he was a mouse. The kids asked to take him home and where going to name him mouse. The last one was smooth fur that was mostly gray with black with a black head and feet. Very cuddly too. They decided on him and his name was to be Oreo. I tell you if I had more money I might have taken two home with me. They are all so cute.

My first try

Hello All!

Here is my first try (actully, second). I am hoping with a little time over the summer and more time to myself I might get the hang of this. I would love to show some of my stampin' projects. Be it card making or scrapbooking. Also I would love to be able to show my necklace that I made this weekend. I might wait until the matching braclett is finished on Tuesday to post it.