For YOu

Baby this is for you.....

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Check out the the May Review kit from Serendipity

I did allot of different things with my scrapbook pages this month and with this kit! I love everything that I did but my favorite is Messy!

Serendipity Scrapbooks Review Creations

Here are Serendipity's April Creations......now off to start on Mays!!!

SFTIO April 09 Kit Creations!

I enjoyed this guest designer gig this month at Scrapbooking from the Inside Out! The word was Clarity!! I did "clarify" some things in my life that gave me some inspiration! I tried more to tell a story with the photos and books rather than writing the story with it! It clarified for me that I could truly scrap out of my comfort zone! So here are my layouts and altered clear Mini albums made with Hambly screen prints clear acrylic sheet! Here is a link to the April Kit!

Autism Awareness Day!!

It was a scary moment the day I realized Noah had Autism! Still today it scares me to know that I have a child who needs my attention! My child realizes what is going on with him! I really hope that a change will come soon because Autism Speaks very loud if we are willing to listen to their language! Watch this and read the following Facts about Autism!Thanks Jennifer for posting this today! My hope and prayers are that for all the mothers and fathers in this world to understand that their lives will begin to recover once their child is recovered!

1 in 150 children

4:1 ratio of boys to girls

1 in 98 boys

Fastest growing developmental disability

100 billion annual costs

In ten years the annual costs are projected at 200-400 billion.
Cost of lifelong care can be reduced by 2/3rds with early intervention

A family with a child with autism will fund 3 to 5 million dollars of services throughout the lifetime of the child.

More children will be diagnosed with autism this year than cancer, diabetes, Downs Syndrome and AIDS combined.

Autism receives less than 5% of the research funding of most of the more prevalent childhood disorders.

Approximately 1 million individuals in the US have autism
Incidence vs. Private Funding (2007)

-Condition
- Incidence
- Private Funding

Pediatric AIDS
1 in 8,000
394 Million

Leukemia
1 in 25,000
310 Million

Muscular Dystrophy
1 in 20,000
175 Million

Juvenile Diabetes
1 in 500
130 Million

Autism
1 in 150
42 Million

A lifetime of Autism

Check out the sneak Peaks for Scrapbooking from the Inside out....

This Kit was completely Awesome! I so loved working with it! Amazing in every way! so check it out y'all!

The Climb

I haven't spoke out much about the divorce proceedings since i received the papers. Mainly because i have been too busy to write about it! I wish i could say that i wasn't scared! I wish i could move the mountain. I wish i knew what was waiting on the other side. I don't have a clue! I've spoken to my attorney getting things underway to start this process. Lets just say I've had to lean on my friends more lately but I guess that is why they are friends. I can do all that i can do to help myself and that is it! I have to leave it in Gods hands now! He always takes the burdens if you let him! I thank God everyday that he is the God of the impossible. My children are scared! I've tried my best to see them through this time. Everyone tells you to keep your children out of the drama. You try to, there are honest questions though that need to be answered. I've heard things like I will run away if the judge makes me go live with daddy; I don't know how I could live without sleeping and living with you mommy. It breaks my heart! I'm all they have ever known but you can't tell a judge that! Will they believe you? It's my word against his now! My daughter tonight was sitting at the computer after a rough Math homework night and told me to listen to this song, it is called "the Climb" it is from the Hannah Montana movie! I'll add the lyrics at the bottom. She said something to me tonight that made me happy to be her mother. All I need is determination to get through this mountain mom! I asked her the mountain being math and she said yeah that too! So i asked her what the mountain was..... and she said i don't know what is waiting for me down the road but i promise to appreciate you more. Crying is what I'm doing now. I told her Alli it's not your fault all of this is going on! She said I know! I wish that staying here with you would be on the other side of the mountain. I told her not to worry that was my job...her job was just to be a kid!
On that note here are the lyrics!

I can almost see it
That dream I'm dreamin
But theres a voice inside my head sayin
You'll never reach it

Every step I'm taking
Every move I make feels
lost with no direction
My faith is shakin

But I, I gotta keep tryin
Gotta keep my head held high

Theres always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be an up-hill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose
Ain't about how fast I get there.
Ain't about what's waitin on the other side.
It's the climb.

The struggles I'm facing.
The chances I'm taking.
Sometimes might knock me down but
No I'm not breaking.
I may not know it but these are the moments that
I'm gonna remember most, yeah.
I Just gotta keep going.
And I gotta be strong.
Just keep pushing on 'cause,


There's always gonna be another mountain.
I'm always gonna wanna make it move.
Always gonna be an uphill battle
But Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose.
Ain't about how fast I get there.
Ain't about what's waitin on the other side.
It's the climb.

Yeah-yeah

There's always gonna be another mountain.
I'm always gonna wanna make it move.
Always gonna be an uphill battle
Sometimes you're gonna have to lose.
Ain't about how fast I get there.
Ain't about what's waitin on the other side
It's the climb

Yeah-yeah-yea

Keep on moving
Keep climbing
Keep the faith