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Gather Element Pack & Gather Cards | Sabrina Dupre
This Month Captured : Nov 2016 Elements | Mommyish
Eleven Element Pack | Amy Wolff
Light Me Home element pack & Light Me Home paper pack | Lynn Grieveson

*staple is from PRD Hooked elements

This is inspired by a Marcy Penner page Homemade Ramp ... for the Journaling Challenge : this matters because ... (I cried 3x writing this, the last sentence. )
journaling reads:

this matters because in less than two years one of you will be gone ... and then just one year latter i will lose both of you to your future endeavors. this matters because it is rare to see you both in the same room at the same time for an extended period of time. this matters because seeing you gathered around the kitchen island eating and doing homework is how we started our life in this house 11 years ago. you two ate breakfast every single morning at the stools together. you came home from school and did your homework every day sitting at this very island. it was such a routine part of our lives and now these stools hardly ever get used. this matters because while i have you both here i want to hold to these moments of family gathered around the kitchen ... laughing, eating and having fun sharing the stories of our day. this matters because some day very soon ... i will be standing in this very spot ... and your voices will no longer be heard. and i will know with every cell in my body that something is missing.

this matters.
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oh my heck... now i'm crying. i wish i had taken a photo like that of my kids, before Chase left on his mission. love your journaling and so glad you shared this. now, i need to go search through my photos and see if i have something so i can do a layout like this too. thanks for the inspiration!
 
I clicked because the composition of this page is so stunning, I wanted it as a template, so I can lift it...lol
then I read it, and oh boogers are flying, I feel like one goobly goop of emotions...big hugs to you...
and this matters cause those voices will be back and bring more with them...oh so many memories still to happen! ♥
 
Thank you @AnneofAlamo ... now more tears are falling from your sweet words. The original page is a paper page and it is beyond gorgeous! Thank you so much @keepscrappin - please tag me if you do a similar story, I will 100% want to read it.
Thank you @n33 for the FF. You are so kind and made my day! :beat
 
oh, this is so fantastic! I can *totally* relate and it brought me to tears reading it! Your heart and love is so evident and so beautifully expressed through your journaling. Pure perfection! Thanks for participating in the challenge!
 
Sigh...mine are in their 40s and never lived in this house with me but sometimes when I think of them, living their appropriate adult lives, my heart still aches the same way. Yes, something is still missing after all these years...
 

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