"All About Me Club"

Last night we had our monthly "All About Me"class. We were joined by 2 new gals. Addie & Jamie, in addition to Terri , Charlie & Connie. We met at Connie's beautiful home and had such a fun evening. We started at 7 and ended a little after 10. Talking and laughing and having a great time. The pages we worked on last night were, " 10 Reasons I love you", a 2 page layout about someone we loved and ten of the reasons why. I chose my daughter Kristan.. We each read our journaling that we wrote and it was so inspiring to hear each one.

The other layout was titled "A Dinner Invitation". On this layout you could choose the 3 people you would love to have dinner with.. they could be real or fiction, dead or alive, famous or not. The selections were so fun to share we had everyone from Queen Elizabeth the first, Jim Brickman and Josh Grobin, to Movie stars and family. We all shared our selections and the reasons we chose these 3 people to invite to our dinner. I decided I wanted to take my 3 guests, Kent, Judy & her husband Jim over to Connie's to have dinner with Jim Brickman and Josh Grobin..

I have so much fun with these girls and preparing the pages for us to create each month. It is so important to include yourself in your scrapbooking, your stories are important. When our families read these in the future we hope they will thank us for taking the time to write down who we were at this time in our lives & that we valued our life enough to share it with them.

Next month our themes are: Favorite Indulgence, Just ME ( questions and answers), and the word Inspire and what it means to you.

Morgan up-date:

Yesterday was Morgan's first day of physical therapy (2 hours) & it was tough. She then had music therapy and worked with a psychologist on pain management for an hour and a half. Then off to the teen room, where they have a tutor to help with homework. The Dr.'s told her to be ready each morning by 9 to start her day. Her leg had several muscle spasms during her workout, but we were told that it was just the muscles rebelling against having to work out and not lay still. It is hard work and she is having a tough time, but I'm sure at the first sign of improvement she will be so happy for all the hard work she is putting in.

Just had a call from Kristan and Morgan had a really tough night with her anxiety going off the charts.( the many strong drugs she is taking for pain are causing this). The Dr's are trying to change some of her pain meds. to help in her mood swings, because their goal is to keep her calm and she is so anxious about everything right now. She is getting ready to go to physical therapy and I hope she has a better day.

I go up each day and take Morgan and Kristan lunch or dinner and lend whatever support I can. I will do whatever that they need me to do to help. I will keep you up-dated..

my quote for the day:

You don't know what you get back until you give.

Bill Clapp