And yet again all my grandiose plans of stamping and creating so that I actually have some eye candy to post on here fell to the wayside this past week - but it wasn't my fault.
Not only did I work 12-ish hour days - we had some family drama to contend with as well.
My older brother was laid off at his job (one week before Christmas - nice) - the company he works for (he's a machinist and took 2 or 3 years of school and training for this job) hired 30 immigrants and laid off 7 Canadian workers last week. I feel horrible for him - what a rotten thing for him to deal with.
As if that weren't bad enough - my younger brother's apartment was broken into the other night. Thank god they weren't home (him and his girlfriend have 2 little girls - a 19 month old and a newborn) because the criminals bear maced the place (think pepper spray but a LOT more powerful). When they realized no one was there they trashed their apartment and stole everything - the Christmas presents, the carseats for the girls, their clothes - everything.
My family is trying to get things together for them as they have nothing right now (and no they didn't have insurance - he's only 21 and what they had wasn't really "worth" a whole lot - but it's all they had).
I've been going through our house setting aside all I can spare to give to them, thankfully we all have girls on my side of the family (I have 7 neices plus my own 2 LOL) so there will be plenty of little girl clothes - and I never bothered to sell off all my baby stuff (not that I've been planning anything - I've just been too busy to bother so it's all in the garage) so we should hopefully be able to get them back on their feet.
With all this going on I obviously haven't had a chance to even think about stamping let alone answer e-mails or anything else!
Sorry for the rather depressing post!! Sadly that's my life at the moment - but it does make me VERY thankful that Tim and myself have jobs, that we have a roof over our heads and that our children are healthy and happy and SAFE. I may be more busy than I could have imagined right now and can hardly think straight - but I'd rather be crazy-busy than be the opposite!!
Even though I seem to be tempting fate EVERY time I say that I hope to be stamping again SOON and will hopefully be posting something creative right away - I WILL say it! Tim was helping me clean the house today and I don't work tomorrow so hopefully between all the pre-Christmas cleaning and prepping I have to do I can sneak in a little creative time and post something for y'all here!
Thanks for bearing with me and all the drama of the past few weeks - I really appreciate all your comments and support!
*mwah*
