Ask My Mom How She Is (poem)

It's been ten years since my daughters passed away. The pain is much less than it used to be. But still, when I saw this poem it touched me and I wanted to share it on my blog. I don't know who authored it. If you happen to know...tell me and I'll give them all the credit they deserve! Jane


Ask My Mom How She Is
by (unknown)

My Mom, she tells a lot of lies,
She never did before
But from now until she dies,
She'll tell a whole lot more.

Ask my Mom how she is
And because she can't explain,
She will tell a little lie
because she can't describe the pain.

Ask my Mom how she is,
She'll say "I'm alright."
If that's the truth, then tell me,
why does she cry each night ?

Ask my Mom how she is
She seems to cope so well,
She didn't have a choice you see,
Nor the strength to yell.

Ask my Mom how she is,
"I'm fine, I'm well, I'm coping."
For God's sake Mom, just tell the truth,
Just say your heart is broken.

She'll love me all her life
I loved her all of mine.
But if you ask her how she is,
She'll lie and say she's fine.

I am here in Heaven
I cannot hug from here.
If she lies to you don't listen
Hug her and hold her near.

On the day we meet again,
We'll smile and I'll be bold.
I'll say,
"You're lucky to get in here, Mom,
With all the lies you told!"

Who would have thought MICE could be sweet?

I love all the House Mouse stamps. I'm slowly accruing quite a collection. I can't afford to pay new price - so I either get them on ebay or on the buy/sell/trade forum on Splitcoaststampers.

This is one of the "new used" stamps I'd purchased probably a couple months ago and hadn't had a chance to play with yet. So when I went stamping with my friend Concetta I took my new stamps to play with. This is the card I came up with.



The bad thing about these images is that they are really large (usually) so they don't leave a lot of room for embellishing or layering. But I think this still came out with a nice little pizzazz to it. The word stamp is from Stampin' Up. Lots of pen stitching and a couple of brads and the card is finished! It's colored with chalks (my only choice for the mice...I've tried watercolors and colored pencils but chalks are my favorite for them).

I got paid yesterday and it was a 3rd paycheck for the month so they didn't take benefits out of it. I decided I deserved a small purchase. And I'd gotten an email from Hambo Stampsthat they were having a sale for the first of December and I don't own ANY of their stamps (which is a sin!) So I placed an order - originally it was for 6 unmounted stamps. But they emailed me this morning and one of the images is out of stock (and two of the sayings went with that image). So now I'm settling for three new stamps instead. I love their sense of humor and their images are pretty cute.

I need to start working on Christmas gifts. I am probably making notecard sets for the teachers (since I bought a Roadrunner stamp for that purpose a while back and haven't used it yet). I'm still working on the calendars. I'm not sure what I'm doing for the folks at work. I want to buy something little for them (like a coffee mug or maybe a decorated candy bar...nothing over $5 each). I bought hubby a small gift but would like to add a few things to it. I need to even out the gifts for the kids (mainly need some sort of a game for the older one...a PSP or PS2 game). I think they are pretty even other than that. I also need to work on getting Christmas cards ready to mail and write a newsletter for the year. Due to a dead battery in my Palm and a subsequent crash of our harddrive...I don't think I have ANY addresses. So this year the only people who are getting cards are ones that mail one to me first.

Well, rambling away here. I'll talk to ya'll tomorrow!

Jane

Another type of creativity to share...

Yesterday I typed out a big old posting and then blogger wouldn't let me add pictures. So I saved it as a draft and figured this morning I'd just sign in and add the pictures and post. Seems simple and logical right? Well I sign in this morning and my draft is GONE. So now I'm starting from scratch. Sigh. So, now you get the "shortened condensed version" of yesterday's post.

This is a diaper cake that I made for a friend of mine. I think it came out really cute if I do say so myself. I finished it off last night by wrapping in celophane but fell short of finding a bow for it. Oh well, still looks cuter than any I found online and much cheaper!

Here it is 'un-iced' and 'undecorated':



And here it is iced and decorated:



If you want details on how I made it, shoot me an email (link is at the top right side of the blog). I'd typed it all in yesterday but not going to redo it today!

I stamped with a friend yesterday. I have more artwork to share...just been sorely missing on free time to actually get postings on the blog. I apologize for that. Will try to get better but suspect I'll get worse as the holidays get closer!

Jane

Address Book #2

Good morning everyone! We've made it to hump day....a few more hours and we'll be over the midway point of the work week! Yesterday was one of those days at work where just about everything that could go wrong...DID go wrong. One of those days that I'm glad I'm a grunt worker and not a manager! But today is a new day!

I did ask about the security changes at work. We were told that they had observed someone pull into the parking lot in the evening and park next to a couple of cars in the parking lot. After a bit the car drove off and parked further down the road and then the guy got out of his car and disappeared. So, nothing actually HAPPENED - just someone saw the possibility and it made them nervous.

Anyways, I know I've been kind of lax on sharing artwork this week. So here is another address book to share. This is the one I'm keeping for myself...the other one is a gift for Christmas for someone.

Here's the outside cover:



And here's the inside pages on this one:



I started noticing yesterday that the corner of my eye is hurting again. I'm afraid the stye is coming back. Sigh. Unfortunately, that probably means another doctor's visit, another few hours of work to make up, another co-pay to pay, and either another prescription or a specialist appointment copay to have them lance it. I'll wait and see for a few days to see if it gets worse or resolves before I make any decision. With any luck maybe my doctor will let me just have her call in another prescription (but I doubt it...they can't make their $$ that way).

Jane

Good morning!

How was everyone's Monday back to work? Mine seemed REALLLLYYYYY long. :-) We also got an interesting email with no explanation. They sent out a companywide email that said they had security concerns and that from now on noone is allowed to work past 7:00 at night, that all cars are to be moved to the front parking lot at 5:00 and that they will have security on grounds from 5-7 each night. Hmmm...makes me think something happened!

I've been working a bit on my calendars but haven't gotten pictures yet....so you'll have to suffer and wait another day because I gotta get going.

I'm also working on a diaper cake and will post pics of that when I'm done. Yesterday I went in search of diaper pins and couldn't find any. I wonder if they even make them any more???

Have a great day.

Jane

Address Book

Good morning...one minute to post this morning before I need to be getting dressed for work. So this'll be a quick one! I wanted to share one of the address books I made last week at my Stampin' Up reps workshop.

Here's the outside:



Here's the first page:



And here's the inside pages:



All supplies are from SU.

Thanks for the fun class Concetta!

Jane

And yet.....MORE monkeys!

I promise...last monkey card for awhile! :-) I do love how this one turned out. The layout was a sketch challenge on SCS...all stamps are from Stampendous.



And...if that weren't ENOUGH monkeys...I thought I'd share a few more FAMILY monkeys! LOL.

This is (from left to right) my brother Dallas (who is two years older than me), my brother John (who is 10 years older than me), and then myself...please keep in mind this is what I look like on Black Friday...with little sleep! Too bad I don't know how to photoshop myself into a 20 year old thin cheerleader type! LOL.



And here are my two boys...



That's all for now!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Jane