sad day

I have been slacking on my blogging lately, apparently my little boy has decided to be more awake during the daylight hours... taking away from computer time.

I had some very sad news yesterday that a friend of mine passed away in her home in a fire. Her name was Stacey and she was 38 years old. She had 2 boys, one of whom is in Brianna's class. I drove by her house this morning on the way to taking Bree to school and I just burst into tears. The property is surrounded by yellow police tape. A police car in the driveway. Her front door wide open... I could see shoes by the door, into her kitchen with her things on the counter. I almost felt like I was betraying her by looking. The tears then followed again. As I walked into Brees class and I saw her teacher, with red eyes too, I couldn't even muster the words, I just started crying... I felt like such an idiot. Such a tragedy! Her boys were with their dad that night thankfully.
I went to my friend Julie's last night so we could support each other. Stacey worked for Julie up until recently, and Julie was very close friends with her and her family. Julie is an amazing lady. She was able to share the salvation message with Stacey over the time that she worked for her. I hope and pray that she took it to heart. By this horrible loss I am reminded that we do not know how long we have on this earth! And I really need to start living each day to it's fullest, and quit complaining about the little things. They don't matter in the grand scheme! I need to get some things together... we dont' even have a will!! How stupid is that??? I have 2 children and no will! Guess what we're going to be doing next week! As I was laying in bed last night thinking about those 2 boys growing up without their mom, I thought of what it woudl be like if it had been me and my family. And my first thought, although silly, was thank goodness I scrapbook! I always try to write from the heart so that my kids and family will never need to guess or wonder what I was thinking or how I felt about certain things. Of course I love to scrapbook, but it almost puts a new focus on it for me! As much as I would LOVE to get to the calibre of being published, I don't think that will be my aim anymore. My focus as cliche as it sounds, is to create memories/keepsakes for my family!

I think I just had an ah-ha moment there! I don't need(although I may argue this point later :) ) all the latest and greatest supplies. I just need to do it! Nike had it right, Just do it!