You clearly have a gift for journaling. I love the title on this and the effect you did on the photo is awesome and really pulls it forward on the page. I so love seeing another 8.5x11 scrapper. There are not enough of us around any more. :)
Such deep and loving words! This is wonderful! Yes, I also hope he will read this and take it to heart and know that he is perfect just the way he is. You have such a wonderful relationship with your son. I love that!!
Wow, Lori...your journaling is so powerful and so wonderful! I hope TJ reads this every day, and that your words help hm to be a more outgoing person! With you at his side, he can't go wrong! Gosh, I am so loving your gallery, with all your awesome photos, great designs and heartfelt journaling! WTG, girl!!!
okay **wiping tears!!!** that is such beautiful journaling!!!! ....with an awesome mom like you Lori, how can he not turn out to be such a perfect and wonderful young man!! ....this is going into my faves, not only for the beauty of the page (love the photo-work!!!) but especially for the jouraling, you have such a wonderful way of expressing yourself and I have so much I can learn from you!! thanks for sharing this!!
When you were born, one of the things I prayed for you was that you be self-confident and outgoing. I hoped that you would be one of those people who never meet a stranger. I keep hoping that as you get older, you will outgrown the shyness you get from both your father and I. You are such a wonderful person, caring. loving and kind. I hope you know how much I think of you, how much I believe you are going to be a wonderful husband and father. I know it must seem that I am hard on you. I want you to know that even though I push you always to try harder, and to do your best, that you are good enough right now, this very minute. Society demands that you be competitive, or you get left behind, and because you are so much like your father and I, you want to be “the best there is”, at everything you try. That’s a noble goal to try for, but impossible to achieve. You know that no one else is the best at everything, and you don’t expect anyone else to be perfect, so stop demanding it from yourself. Give yourself a break when someone else does better at something than you do. Be sincerely happy for that person, because they want to be the best at something, too. Know that your self-worth is dependent on how hard you try, not on whether you are the best. You are a truly good person. You are protective of your family, you try never to hurt anyone’s feelings, and you are tender-hearted I love that about you, it gives you value as a person, and as a man. I tell you these things because I want you to know them, to never question them, and to realize that you are perfect as you are. If you continue to beat yourself up over the little things you have no control over, you will be a victim of your own making. You are already a loving, kind and generous person, and that’s the most you need to be.
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