Ok so it was kind of nice to have 4 days off instead of 2, although i did still doa fair bit of work. However, the price for the extra two days hit home today. It was manic!
I finally had my lunch (very healthy comprising a granola bar, a few grapes and a cup cake!) at about 3.30! During my lunch hour I - very sadly - went to the funeral of a grandma at school who was only 59. her grand-daughter, a pupil of ours, was so brave and red a poem she had written about her Nanny.
On to brighter things. The pages I made for prompt 49. I did say it was a double.
This was the first page - and I am sorry but the photo is of the house all decked in Christmas lights but i just don't post that on the web.
I handcut the title and just had to use the coke font as the sound of that music really does seem to herald Christmas for me.
The second page is the reason why our tree goes up late! There are only so many hours we can stand with both a tree and a Fiki.
I have another page to share today as well - my JYC for the 6th December.
I have scrapped my naughty and nice before so this was a chance to scrap a very special Christmas. i have very few photos of it - because I didn't know how precious the pictures would be.
The photo is of the first time we had Mommy and Daddy over for Christmas day lunch. I grew up in a hotel and Christmas was a busy time as the hotel was full. Poor Nij learnt the hard way what Christmas meant as he got roped in too. Our first married Christmas was like every other - working in the hotel.
The following year - 1987 - they sold the hotel and we had one Christams in the hotel with just us and family. It was wonderful.
1988 was the first year I hosted Christmas and the photo is from that day. I didn't know it would be so special. We also had Mommy and Daddy over for Christmas 1989 but it was, unbeknown to all of us, to be Mommy's last. She was just 58 when she was taken from us so cruelly and suddenly in March 1990. The funeral today for a lady who was just 59 brought it all back far too vividly.
My quote for today is
- Having such wonderful parents. I may have lost them but their love lives on and fills me every day
- Managing to get an appointment for tomorrow.
Both your pages are beautiful, Dolly!!
Got Prompt 49 up at my blog. :o)
http://lens-and-pens.blogspot.com/search/label/52in10
Posted by: Photographing Mom | December 07, 2010 at 11:13 PM