Cards this week.

Hi
Happy Friday yay the end of another week, soooooo tired this week I think the massage and weekend away doing not to much at all have taken a bit of getting over, don't even really feel like I am connected ATM but Karina is feeling the same so I guess it is from the retreat. Hope I feel more with it next week. Above are the shirt cards we made this week, I got the instructions off Splitcoaststampers website and after a couple of attempts, mainly getting the collar folded right, they are now really easy to fold together. The sailing boat 1 I did at the end of class on Tuesday just playing around and the roses card we did a few weeks ago, teaching my Ladies the sponging effect.

This time next week I will be celebrating my 40th so I have 1 week left in my 30's far out where does life go??? These past years since turning 35 have flown by. I know Tim and I have certainly packed a huge amount into our life together these past 7 years but I feel like I have been on 1 huge roller coaster ride and have now been spat off so to speak. This year is certainly about me having to deal with lots even if I dont want to, its like I have pushed so much emotional stuff aside for so long but it is no longer going to go aside and it is demanding to be dealt with like it or lump it, so at times it all gets a bit overwhelming, were to start and where to finish. It is just years of stuff really that I am now looking at and wondering how the hell I got through it all, kind of like the train is slowing down and the carriages are not so I will have to sort out the carriages before it derails me. LOL. I really feel like I need to get so much of this erased so I can start the new phase of life without all this going in with me, I hope that makes sense. It is just how I am feeling with my whole life ATM. It just really feels time for me to step forward and take responsibility for all I have created and done in my life that has affected me instead of looking at placing blame for it all on others. I know I have made some extremely stupid decisions and seemed to have a fear from a young age of being alone or single but I now really want to empower my girls to believe in themselves and to embrace their independence when it comes time, not to feel like security will come in the arms of a male but to really be comfortable with their own skin and who they are as people before they feel they need to be entering relationships and tying themselves down long before they know who they really are. Hope this makes sense if you have hung in there and read this deep post. LOL. Just need to get some of this down I guess so I can look back in years to come and see where I was at in this time of my life.

On a lighter note, this weekend will be cleaning up yard and hoping to get everyone out for some time at the park or beach. Tim has booked Wild hogs for us to watch tonight so I am really looking forward to watching that and hoping to get some good laughs. Keelan is home today, he was running temp last night and seems fine today but he has been getting a rough time at school lately getting blamed for another childs actions which the teacher seems to have woken up about now so hopefully next week he can go back and focus on tests they are having ATM and feel that happy feeling again. Well better go Rainee and I are going to scrap and Keelan wants to know how to make the origami shirt and Zay well he just pulled rows out of my crochet rug so he is being the bad 3 year old this week through and through but that is a whole other post. Have a great weekend and love your kidlets a bit extra over the weekend.
Take care
Trace.