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carilyne said:
scrap the memories? I get overwhelmed trying to look at it
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oh dear Carilyne, last week, I opened the same photos and cried. It was horrible. I felt like my joy of scrapping had been taken from me due to the behavior and horrible decisions of a few of my children. Then I began scrapping 25 years of Christmas with Cheryls amazing template:

I cried, I mean boogers flying, swollen face and some where in scrapping that I started laughing and remembering the really good times. It was pure healing. Since that day, I have scrapped an additional 8 pages, with joy.
PLUS....I am planning on giving each one of my adult children this book as their Christmas present. They are very angry with us(their parents) and we have just been loving. It is a weird thing to experience. So, I am giving them a book of memories.
 
AnneofAlamo said:
oh dear Carilyne, last week, I opened the same photos and cried. It was horrible. I felt like my joy of scrapping had been taken from me due to the behavior and horrible decisions of a few of my children. Then I began scrapping 25 years of Christmas with Cheryls amazing template:

I cried, I mean boogers flying, swollen face and some where in scrapping that I started laughing and remembering the really good times. It was pure healing. Since that day, I have scrapped an additional 8 pages, with joy.
PLUS....I am planning on giving each one of my adult children this book as their Christmas present. They are very angry with us(their parents) and we have just been loving. It is a weird thing to experience. So, I am giving them a book of memories.
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I wish I had my photos found and organized to do that. What a wonderful book it would be.
You have had a difficult year. I'm glad you are finding healing and hopefully can share that healing with your kids. Yeah consequences are hard. This year Christmas is hard not so much because of any choices but DH's. We had some painful admissions recently and it's hard But Will is still so vulnerable and healing an whole new layer from his divorce, and Zane has a mystery girlfriend. For me it's a time of major change in thought and behavior so I want to celebrate.
 
carilyne said:
scrap the memories? I get overwhelmed trying to look at it
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it is way to much for me, how does one celebrate, when one feels no joy. The gradatude and today, whoa christmas, has just been tooo to much
 
Cath_ said:
it is way to much for me, how does one celebrate, when one feels no joy. The gradatude and today, whoa christmas, has just been tooo to much
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Oh Cath hugs. It's so hard. Can you find bits of joy by looking through your sister's eyes? I remember years when I just read blogs that meant something to me and got encouragement from that and it ended up being a good year, not great but good. Isn't it your anniversary? that would be something to remember. Find one thing that maybe you can focus on and remember the good times before. Take care
 
The Christmas DYD goodies really are fabulous and yes it took me ages to narrow down the things I wanted to work with!! Our designers really are THE BEST!! :)
 
It's crazy how amazing all the DYD products are! I have been scrapping every chance I get and working with my Xmas pages from last year is really getting me excited for the season ahead. So, off I go again, to get one more page done. See ya later!
 
It's such a gorgeous collection! It feels almost like Pokemon...gotta buy them all!
 
Cath_ said:
it is way to much for me, how does one celebrate, when one feels no joy. The gradatude and today, whoa christmas, has just been tooo to much
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Carilyne had good points! I listened to a podcast where the speaker said she had horrible Christmas time memories. But then she decided to change it for her. So she started finding a good thing about Christmas. She started with things her grandma did. And blossomed it out from there. Slowly over the years she doesn't hate it anymore. Maybe something like that would help?
 
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