Amazing page. I love the way you poured your heart out here. So honest and true. This really touched me. Great design for a journal-heavy page and I really appreciate the handwriting. It so personalizes the layout.
This is a very touching layout; sorry for your loss. having lost my own mother i understand the line "I feel the full impact of her absence ". Kudos to you for sharing this and actually taking the time to "write" out the layout instead of using the computer.
Kudos to you girl for being able to write and do this layout. I have boxes of photos of family members that are gone and haven't even touched them. Maybe one day.
A wonderful page...brought tears to my eyes...making me miss my grandma even more. I have some of those same thoughts, if I can just talk to her just one more time. Love the page, great job.
oh honey is this why you are in a funk - what a very touching layout - the journalling echos my own feelings about my own grandparents although I was 13 when I lost my grandma and only a few months shy of being pregnant with my first child when my grandpa passed. I miss them every day too - but I was so blessed to have that love in my life. Big Hugs. This layout is a wonderful tribute to that special bond.
This is made for the AGC weekly challenge and also for the UYS week 1 challenge to use buttons, with the twist of dressing the buttons.
The blossom is handmade - I crocheted it.
This is also for Journaling Junkies Challenge 78, to make a layout, journaling about loss.
Journaling reads: There are certain things I wish I could remember about my grandma Worden, like her voice, the way it felt when she hugged me, the way her face looked when she smiled. She passed away just after I turned six, and I knew when it happened how different my life would be. There are still many times in my life, 24 years later, when I feel the full impact of her absence and wonder how things would be if she were still here. I wish Ethan and CJ could know her and lover her like I did. But I know she is watching from Heaven, even now, and more than anything else, I hope I have made her proud. It wasn't until 19 years after Grandma's death that Grandpa joined her, and I felt his loss to my core. I was only a few months pregnant with Ethan at the time, and although we knew the cancer would take him soon, I found my hopes crushed that he would meet his first great grandson. It was a terrible time following his death, and I still have a difficult time accepting it, more than five years later. I miss seeing him at coffee hour at Theo & Staci's. I miss his teasing smile and sense of humor. I miss his guidance and wisdom that saw me through the troubling times in my life. There are so many things I would say to them if I could talk to them just one more time. I'd make sure to tell them both how much I love them and that they both had a huge impact on my life. I'd introduce them to the great grandsons they never got to meet. I'd introduce Grandma to Jason and show her that I still use many of the skill she taught me -- cooking, crochet, and growing the perfect rose. They may both be gone, for now, and I know that wishing them back won't bring them back here. I know that they are alive, if only in my heart, and that I will see them again in Heaven. But I can still dream and imagine feeling their arms around me right now. 4.18.10
Helen Mae Reinbold Worden August 30, 1935 - April 16, 1986
Donald Ross Worden June 29, 1933 - August 29, 2004
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