This Week's Stars & Stamps Sketch

This week's Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps sketch:



My creation based on the sketch:




All inks and stamps are from Stampin' Up.

OWH Stars and Stamps

Operation Write Home has now started a blog for us cardmakers! Every Sunday we will be given a sketch challenge. Here is our first one. We are to make a card using this sketch and include a star somewhere.

Here is my card based on this sketch.

All stamps and ink are from Stampin' Up. Paper is ????!!

Healing - An Anniversary Forgotten

Last Wednesday I went with a friend of mine and her husband to see a breast cancer surgeon. She had been told to see one after her mammo showed an unusual lump. It was suggested that she have a biopsy done. While we were there, the doctor gave her the option of going back another day for the biopsy or having it done the same day. She chose to get it over with. As of this writing, we're still waiting for the results.

The next day another friend of mine who knew where I was going, said to me "Now that it's all over I can tell you what I think." She had been upset with my going with my other friend because she thought that it would bring back memories for me and get me upset to be at the surgeon's office and waiting to find out the results of the biopsy. But, she was wrong. It didn't bother me in the least. I didn't even think about my own situation except that I wanted to be of support and help to my friend.

Later on in the evening I got to thinking about what my second friend had said. Then, it dawned on me. The third anniversary of my mastectomy had come and gone on Monday and I hadn't even thought about it for a second.

I remember shortly after I was diagnosed in 2006 reading an article written by a breast cancer survivor. At the end of the article, she wrote that there would come a day when the whole day would go by without one thought of breast cancer. You know what, she was absolutely right! In fact, other than the fact that every morning I have to take meds to combat reocurrence, I hardly think about it at all. Even then, I don't consciously think I'm taking these meds for breast cancer; they're just my meds.

I guess missing an anniversary like this is what real healing is and I thank the Lord!! I know that if it wasn't for His grace and mercy, I would not be here to not remember!!

I Made My Goal!!!

Actually, I hadn't originally set a goal but as time went by and I started counting the Christmas cards I had made for Operation Write Home, I decided to make 50 cards. I finally finished the last three today!! Will be getting them in the mail this week.

A little of this, a little of that....

Not much to blog about these days but since I came on here to change the layout and update the Operation Write Home link that was formerly Cards for Heroes, I thought I'd just jot down a few words.

We recently spent two weeks at our home in TN. It was our gs 10th birthday and since we haven't been with him for his birthday for three years, I felt it was time. He got the Rock Band set as one of his gifts so, of course, we had to play it. Later in the week the Beatles Rock Band came out and, of course, DH had to get it! But, I must admit it is fun, especially since I know the songs!

This pic was taken with the family playing regular Rock Band before we got the Beatles. Since I'm the picture taker it was a little hard to get a pic when we played the Beatles Rock Band as I was the "lead" singer!!

We had a great time being with the family.

I did get to do a little gardening and lots of weeding while there. I had some trees that a friend of mine gave me that I finally got planted. I just pray they continue to survive and grow. They've been in pots for months and have done okay. I don't have to worry about them being watered as I hear there's lots of rain down there.

It was fun to see flowers growing that I didn't know I had. DD tells me that every time they go over to the house a different flower is blooming.

Just for the heck of it I thought I'd put out my hummingbird feeders. I couldn't believe it when, in no time at all, there were at least six hummers and continued to be for the two weeks we were there. When I came home, however, I found my hummers here are gone. Or, if they are still around, I haven't seen them.

A sad note, though....when we got home, we had to have our dog put to sleep. He was 14 and starting to lose control of his bowels and not able to get up the back steps of the deck (only two steps). Benjamin's in doggie heaven with his friends now and running and playing better than he has in a long time.

We still have DS boxer here. He and Benjamin weren't really friends. They didn't fight except when food was involved and usually Ben would start it!

I see by the clock it's getting late and I have work tomorrow. 6:30 comes fast, though sometimes it seems to take forever when I'm tossing and turning and can't sleep. Right now my body feels tired but my mind is wide awake.

God bless!