Moving On, for now

Fall is on it's way, I heard it's cool whisper the other day.....the sounds of autumn danced inside my ears.
It has been awhile my creative and lovely friends, since I have written. Still walking through major life changes. Sometimes I am accepting-walking one foot in front the other-and other moments if I take the time to even dream of holding the hands of my girls when babies or visit how things change and time moves on I fear that I could drown in that river of my tears. How did all the yesterdays get so far beyond my reach? Yes, my girls are still yet little, but not as little as they once were and how fast time marches on. My oldest will be 24 this month, I think of this too as the youngest attends 1st grade all day.

Above, the 2 youngest on their first day back at school. That same day I started my first 3-day work week. Too nervous and busy to cry over life's changes. I am also working on a few more "swaps", fall & Halloween. I had to, in my feelings of sadness, do something to brighten things up. SO, a couple weeks ago it was that time for a trip to the beauty salon...a rare treat. And decided for a change, my hair was growing out its long ago last cut and shoulder length for sure....I braved a shorter cut, for now anyways. Tried out my $5/yard sale tri-pod w/my camera to give you a view of my hair cut.

I was "pony-tail" girl (and "pony-tail" girls, you know who you are) so often and as you can see, that is not happenin w/this "DO"....which causes me to be w/a style most days. (sometimes I miss "pony-tail" girl when I have my busy schedule). Below is a photo of what my lovely & generous friend Kathy from Country-Chintz sent me for our "Pinkeep" swap that Viv hosted at www.vivs-whimsy.blogspot.com

As you can see, if I was a gambling gal, this could be called a "jackpot"...for she sent me such lovely things I could not fit them in a photo if I pulled out all the great tags/etc...that came along with the Beautiful Pinkeep she made me!! Thanks Kathy for your wonderful surprise package full of tags/magnet/trims/images/altered journal/paper weight, etc... And, I made another great friend along the way, two gifts in one!!!

Here is what I made. A rose-bud pinkeep w/a strawberry cushion.

I leave you with a bit of our summer fun. A day 2/the 2 littler ones at mini-golf. (yes, finding the "teen" these days is like "where's waldo".)

Well, now that I have waited out a long time of hoping blogger would save this, since I kept getting some message of "unable to contact blogger" and not being able to save this...I am now able to save and finishing up a long night. I leave you w/a smiling photo of the littles, wishing you a pleasant night where-ever you are. It is now way past midnight and my brain and my fingers & typing are not cooperating very well. At least we have a "free Monday" tomorrow...zzzz And thanks to all who left comments to my last post (and any posts for that matter!, but especially the last one)...off to sleep, hugs & blessings to you all,
Carol