[SweetSunshine]

While I was away from PC for the last week and a half I kept very busy. We had our nephews graduation party to get ready for and I was also working on his scrapbook. I was pulling some very late hours with minimal sleep the last couple weeks trying to get this done. And dealing with what to do with my dad and his situeation. He is now in a rehab center doing good. But we dont know if this is going to be temporary or permanent yet and wont know for a couple more weeks yet. Also my T has been on medical leave now for 4 weeks and its indefinite . My case worker is filling in so far. And I am sure our marraige therapist will try to help out where he can too. Friday night we had our nephews graduation ceremony. And we also found out that our unmarried niece is pregnant. She just graduated from college. Had plans to go to France to teach over there this fall and has had to cancel her plans now. She needs her family support during this time. And she will have it. She is not sure she is going to keep the baby..and my husband and I are considering offering to adopt him/her. I was never able to have children . And I think alot of my depression/emptiness stems from that. I am trying so hard not to feel hopeful towards this . But knowing its something she is considering.. its hard not to. And then Sunday was the highlight of the start of my summer... I got to go see my Kenny Chesney in concert!!!!!!!!!!! And it was AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!! I was just as excited to be there as the first one I had ever been to! He keeps getting better and better all the time! OHhhh and he opened his concert on our end of the arena!!!!!!!! I COULDNT BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!WOO HOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! So thats been the Great the Good , Bad and Ugly of whats been going on lately with me. Hope I didnt bore you to death. Since it was a meriad of things to talk about I put it here .. but if you feel you need to move it somewhere else go ahead . I understand. Thanks for letting me share. I am also going to share a couple pics of my scrapbooking stuff that I did up and a pic of Kenny for ya !

[Christina86]

Wow, you sure have done a lot/are going through a lot of stuff.

Congrats to your nephew on his graduation, thats no small feat!

Sorry about all that other stuff you're going through, I can imagine how it would all be stressful.

Whee! Kenny Chesney!! And WAY pretty scrapbooks!!!

[hillbunnyb]

I was ready for some good news here, YOOOO HooooWOOODY HooooooooDY Kenny Chesney, too cool for you.

[SweetSunshine]

Yes Christine its been a VERY stressful yet exciting time away. Thanks for the congrats for our nephew.. we also found out at the graduation ceremony lol... that he got a scholarship ( not a full one) to the technical college he is going to. It was a total surprise to him , his parents and us! So his teachers must have put an application in for him for it! How cool is that? His class had over 6 million dollars worth of scholarships given! He will be going to learn to work on all the mechanical stuff of like the x-ray machines etc at hospitals. I think this is pretty neat.

The scrapbook was very time consuming , took ALOT of creative thought not only for the pages but towards what he would like and his personality. But I love doing it . Its fun .. I just wish I wouldnt have had such limited time towards the end here to work on it to enjoy it more.
Hillbunny~
OOOOOOOOO KENNYY Dont get me started there... You wont get me off here lol He's just Yummy! lol Heheheehe

[wisewoman]

Bethy, you are amazing! Can you come here and do that with my family photos? As for the baby honey, don't get your hopes up because mom is in a confused state. You might say to her that you are available to support her in any way you can and you would certainly love to adopt the child if she were considering adoption. Best to you hun.

[SweetSunshine]

Thanks Wisewoman... if I had a penny for every person that said that lol... Ive had so many people that have wanted me to do this as a business. And it would just be impossible to keep up with orders. Plus the with the time and product cost in one of these things... I just dont think that people would want to pay that much. The product cost of all I did in this album has been about $ 300 ( I am glad we usually dont have more than 2 that graduate a year! lol) . That is not including my time . And I dont even know what I would charge for that. If I had to say how many hours I put into this album.. wow... its roughly 175 hrs. By the time you sort thru and pic out pictures,then themes for the pictures, finding poems, stickers, cardstock then the creative work involved or "BRAINWORK". And like I said I always take intor consideration the person I am doing the album for and their personality. Its got to be something they will love . My best efforts go into this. When I do something I do it well. I dont do a half job.

Hi Tryin,
It sounds like you're keeping busy and loving it. You sound so enthusiastic and energetic. I'm happy for you for that.
I'm quietly hoping for you with the baby. But like Wisewoman says, you can't get your hopes up.

Your scrapbook look great. I like the Sailbum one. It looks real nice.
Great job!

[SweetSunshine]

Yeah I didnt quite address that did I? I am doing my very best to not get my hopes up. As much as I would love this to happen. I am staying very realistic about it. I'm not going out and buying baby furniture and all that lol. We have to see what our niece is going to do first. What our plan is .. is that we want to talk things thru more ourselves to make sure this is what we really want in our life, then approach my husbands sister to let her know that if our niece is leaning towards the way of adoption to consider us first if she wants to. We dont want her to if it will be too painful for her to see the baby all the time though. But we also thought that this would be a good way of keeping the baby in the family without it disrupting her life and plans and with her not having the support of the father right now. He is very much in denial. I think we have been going over alot of aspects so far in the short time that we've known about this. And I know there will be more to come should the situation warrant it. Thanks for your support. I know you guys are looking after me and my well being and I appreciate it so much!!

Hugz~
Beth