Friendship

Friendship is something that everyone has in their lives. Whether its old friends, new friends, work friends or school friends....everyone has friends of some sort. I've had some interesting relationships with friends over the years. Old friends coming back into my life and reconnecting, new friends that we became close really quick and are inseparable, and some that ended because of differing opinions and some that just never stuck for no particular reason. I consider a lot of people my friends. I don't argue with my friends, I don't bicker.....I feel as though your friends are to lift you up, share stories and laugh. Not bring you down. When I don't feel that a friendship is working for me, I won't confront them. I don't like confrontation. I tend to just let it fizzle out. Because of my past experiences I had to see a counselor to understand why I attract the type of friend that I do. She said I'm a good listener and not judgemental. That I want to "fix" or help that person and that's why I tend to attract the type of friend that is needing more of my attention. The friendship becomes one sided....I'm the ear....always listening, wanting to help. Since these counseling sessions a few years ago I'm very cautious about people. I've been tested in the last year with a few ladies and have had to speak my peace. It's caused tension and I hate that. I'm not in the business of hurting people. But I don't want toxic relationships in my life. Those of you that really know me, know that I have handful at home. Being with my friends is my escape and having fun. I value all my friendships, but sometimes life isn't perfect and I can't be everyones friend.

I've been scrapping a lot!

Well, somebody is reading my blog! LOL!!! So I'm gonna give this a whirl again and see how much I can update. I've been going scrapbooking A LOT lately. In fact I'm at an event all weekend at Scrapbooking Daisies but I come home at night. I'll be leaving shortly. Here's a few of my favorite layouts I've done recently;



I also was told about this site, Very Jane. Love it! Have a great Saturday!

It's been a year since I've updated!

This poor neglected blog. Does anyone even look any more?

Mother's Day

We spent a lovely day at my moms enjoying a yummy breakfast and playing Rock Band! I'm still swaying a bit...hoping that goes away soon.

Now I'm working on Ryan's graduation party. We're expecting around 40 people. Friday night is his ceremony and then we're going out to dinner and then the party on Saturday. Not much planned for today, working out and then running the typical "mom" errands...carwash and library. Then tonight I'm going to a Tupperware party. I haven't been to one in 20yrs! Can't wait to see what that's all about. Have a great Wednesday, it looks beautiful outside.

Back from my cruise

Wow! What a crazy week I've had with National Scrapbook Day and the Red Bee cruise. NSD was a blast as usual. The food was amazing and the ladies had so much fun! Then on to packing and leaving for my 5 day trip. I had a great time, but am having a heck of a time getting my balance back. I felt very claustrophobic and off the entire time. I'm not sure I'd do it again, but here's a couple fun times!
Day one a quick snapshot with Candice, Darlene and I in Ensenada at LaBofadora, enjoying a Pina Colada pool side, a boat ride into Catalina and our final night at dinner. Good times!

Today is my mom's birthday! Happy Birthday! I helped in Zach's class today. I glued 78 calenders to construction paper for the month of May for ALL the Kindergartners. What a sticky mess! Tonight I'm working...final preps for National Scrapbook Day and the cruise. I can't believe we leave on Monday! It was in August when we came up with the idea and now it's here. What are your plans for NSD? Our crop is sold out, but the store is having great sales, so come by and shop and say hello! Bon Voyage!

Back in Blogland!

I know I planned to blog more frequently....and had good intentions, but something happened to my google account and my "blog" id/password wasn't working and I couldn't recover it. But I also didn't try to fix it. So now I'm back and able to log in.
A lot is going on....Ryan is getting ready to graduate and I'm leaving for a cruise next week! I joined Jenny Craig to lose those last 15lbs and we're working out to be a healthier us and trying to incorporate more veggies in our diets. I'm looking forward to summer and having lots of fun things planned. I'll keep this one short and update again this week!