new favorite guilty pleasure

check out my friends aish'sa jewlerly site.love her stuff

http://khancreations.blogspot.com/

wow where did the time go

blizzards,irish pub tours, myrtle beach,chicago for the school nurse convention,austins confirmation,scrapping with friends,justins new band nalani and sarina,tylers bout with bells palsey,morgans plays, me two years cancer free,searching for the right college path for the twins,nook fun,scrapping adventures, the boys jobs, tyler at polo,guy at shoprite,austin at shell, morgan taking odd jobs,its wild and wacky. going to00 fast.

reflections

call it middle age, or just the stresses of the news(oil spills,joblessness) or at home, with business a little too quiet, or friends getting ill,hurt. i lately find myself sad, wondering how i spent so much of my child hood not waiting till i was a grown up, and now at times i feel old and appalled that my life is (if god blesses me with a full life) half over.sometimes i long to be a child again listening more than i did to the wisdoms of my dad, or the young mother with my arm load of babies(so far the most fullfilling time in my life),just wondering when did looking forward turn into looking back. God help me to just look to now and what is. but sometimes life is just scary.

the fall to christmas review

just a few tidbits in the fall i battled hin1 by vaccinting over 200 kids at my school. i went away with my hard core girls to sea isle and it was just the best. these estrogen infusion weekends i just live for. i went scrapping in amish country. went to see mama mia with my church and my theater buff morgan and friend went with me . guy got his lisense.i also have lots of girls at my house as the older 4 are dating. the current girls are lovely they all get along and it is so much fun having them around. they get excited about family things like tree decoarating. i can only hope and pray that this is a foreshadowing of good things to come.

the best stuff

i am not even sure where to begin. we had the most amazing experience in May with the marriage of my neice megan to her new husband thomas. it was such a joyful day(i took 400 pictures!) but the family reunion was  a reawakening of old relationships. we got to see cousins that i had not seen since i was a child   and the connections were still there! we are planning a reunion in 2011. this whole thing just reaffirmed what i already know. i am sssoo blessed. i love my family. then in july we took our trip of a life time with the kids...our cruise. all went but justin who was touring with his band on warp tour. we swam with dolphins, saw Bermuda snorkeled, mopeded, jet skis, rock climbed, ice skated, ate VERY well. and guess what?..i still love my husband. it was like a honeymoon for us..after that camp hill scrapping with the ladies from the message board and one other sassy scrapper.I broke a personal record in pages done. apparently when you are not talking so much you get more done, but with less witnesses i shopped more. bad.now i am at warwick camp for i think my 8th year?now i miss my family. guy robert met a girl on the cruise and after a year of mourning his old girlfriend is finally happy and glowing again. Justin also ended things with jewlia and met another girl dulcie who just connected with all of us so he is glowing..tyler dates an awesome girl rachel who i love. It is so nice having girls around. on big guys birthday they all baked!!

i am one year out on my cancer surgery and coming on one year since radiation..

life is good.

next in the summer adventure...garage sale...

oh did i mention austin graduatedfrom east amwell and justin did warp tour with kelsey and the chaos...

so a few things along the way...i discovered facebook which has made me be a bad blogger. not sure anyone reads this but if anything it helps me when i go back to scrapbooking or writng the annual christmas letter. so the pictures...the bear is from the charity crop i ran for pediatric cancer research, ride for erik a foundation my friend started,the picture of number 4 son austin rock climbing made it into nj monthly! i got a photo credit!(okay so i am totally best friends with the art editor but still)then there is the whole twins getting their pemits can i just say yikes. little guy  driving, he says driving with dad and i together is pure hell. nice huh!then my little thespian morgan in annie finally i get to see a show instead of a soccer game not that i minded a soccer game but change is good.then my wonderful weekend away for estrogen infusion and scrapbooking with my sassy scrapper sb group.and last but not least..the twins turn 17! in other news my neice meg gets married in two weeks,justin is in indiana on tour with forever the sickest kids,and our cruise is coming yippee...now back to facebook...

oh yea justin is on tour all over