MOC 2023 7 Heirloom

kits used:
Sunny Side Up by Forever Joy
Backyard Adventure BYOC 2020 05 by Allison Pennington
journaling font, my handwriting.
tag font Big Blue Bold

journaling says (Sorry, not a happy funtime one)

i hate to be a debbie downer but i don’t have physical heirlooms to show, like some do. mine are more mental. things that have come to me through family dna and trauma.

i’m working on them slowly through therapy and making better choices who i spend my time and energy with and on. and it sucks, but it's working. i’m finding out all kinds of things about myself and hopefully working towards ending years of generation trauma and showing myself that it really wasn’t me caused all these people to be unhappy. there’s a real possibility they were unhappy, depressed. traumatized before i came along. and my appearance on the planet was not an accident. unfortunately, as hard as i tried not to i did share some of this with my kids. dna shared the depression and my depression era (most of my 30s and 40s dumped some generational trauma on them too. it’s hard but i am working on undoing and teaching them, as they teach me, what it has done to us all and we’re working to make things better.

i really wish i’d gotten a cool trinket or set of china instead.