Have You Seen My New Bloggy Home Yet?

I moved my blog on New Years Day. If you haven't come to see my new blog, head on over HERE now. This blog will be available for archive reading but I won't be posting here anymore. I hope you'll join me at my new bloggy home!

p.s. I am slowly but surely moving all the blogs I follow over to the new blog, so if I haven't come to visit you for a while, my advice is to leave a comment on my new blog, so I don't miss you in the shuffle!

Moving Day (The Change I Told You About!)

Hop on! This blog is moving..... over HERE.

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Changes Are A-Comin'!

Hehehe

No, I won't really edit your face, so don't be scared....

Although, I do hope you'll like the changes!

I have decided, in fact, that the biggest change will take place precisely at the very moment 2009 turns into 2010.

So, be sure to come back then and see what I've been busy doing! You don't want to miss it!

WW: Snow Storm

The day before this photo, we could still see the sidewalk, which is unusual this time of year.

It started to snow sometime after midnight, I think, and this photo was taken around 6 pm. By the next morning there was probably twice as much snow as seen in this photo.

Is it spring yet....? I'm so over winter.

Card: Long Stem Flower

I made this card for my auntie who turned 99 earlier this month. I made it kind of on a whim after making these cards. I had been drained of energy and ideas. I had made the flower part for another card but did not end up using it, and I had the leaves from another project as well so I ended up just taking a tiny little sliver from green paper to use as a stem.

I liked how it turned out and I think I might make a whole set of these with different color flowers to put on my etsy shop once I open it. I might even make a notebook with this. Simple to make, but pretty. Curious to know if you all like them as much as I do.

Wow, I Won!

Wow, I am shocked and excited to have won one of the giveaways for the 25 Days of Giveaways (which stretched out to 29 Days!).

You can see what I won HERE.

Thanks, April!

Also, Katy over at In Hannah's Honor decided that everyone who left a comment on her giveaway will win a little something, so I won over there too! I'm looking forward to see what it will be!

Thanks Katy!


And the biggest thanks to Tina over at Living Without Sophia and Ellie for organizing this giveaway event!

The Day After Christmas or Reason # 61124 Why I Miss You

Bear and I used to write each other silly notes.

The day after Christmas in 2007, which ended up being our last Christmas together, I wrote this silly note to Bear:

T'was the Day After Christmas
and all through the house
not a creature was stirring
not even a mouse
(except the house was a mess
and who was left to clean it but the mrs!)

Momma is so tired
All she wants to do is sit by the fire
(except there is no fireplace to be seen
so momma keeps warm by doin' the cleanin'!)

The stockings are flung over the chair
emptied of the contents Santa put there
(surprised Santa came by this year
to leave presents for one naughty bear)

©2007tla

Special Handling Please ( A Christmas Poem for the Bereaved)

SPECIAL HANDLING PLEASE

I was handed a package the other day.
It was wrapped securely to be mailed away
Attached to the outside as plain as could be
Was a simple note for all to see.

Please rush through the holiday season;
Too painful to open for any reason.
Contained within, find one broken heart-
Fragile, broken, falling apart.

Tried to go shopping the other day;
The hype of the season blew me away.

Sat down to write cards,
That was insane.
Couldn't find the list
Or think of my name.

People say,
"Come over, be of good cheer."
"Celebrate the holidays,
Prepare a New Year."

But my grief overwhelms me
Like waves in the sea.
Can they cope with my crying,
an unsettled me?

I don't have any holiday cheer.
Decorations, traditions, big family meal
I can't do this year.
Do you know how I feel?

Guilty and frustrated!
I've let everyone down!
Our holiday celebrations
used to be the best in town.

So just ship me away
Address unknown
When my grief is better
I might fly home.

written by: Mary J. Pinkava

Christmas in Heaven

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CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN

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We're wondering what Christmas in Heaven is like
As we grieve alone and pray,
longing for one who has gone before
To spend Christmas in Heaven today.

And so in our dreams we wander far
From the scenes and sounds of earth
‘Til we catch the strains of the Heavenly choir
As they sing of the Christ Child's birth.

The Angels we envision there
As they join in the festive play
And there amid the throng is our Loved One
Spending Christmas in Heaven today.

There's joy in the faith that teaches
When our life's work is done
Of a place in Heaven awaiting
And the crown we worked for is won.

In our grief may we learn well the lesson
So to work and suffer and pray
As to merit the joys of our loved one
And to spend Christmas together some day.

Author Unknown

WW: Reason # 47884 Why I Miss You

These are just a few of the tags. I can't find the rest, or maybe they got tossed. Anyway, he felt that he was only allowed to give a certain number of gifts so he had to come up with some other ideas. They included "Santa", "The Christmas Elves", "The Christmas Ghost", snowmen, reindeer, etc. Anyway, that's the kinda guy he was. And he never forgot Babybear either. *sigh*