More Holiness Give Me: I DID IT!!!!!

Monday, January 28, 2013

I DID IT!!!!!

I

FINALLY got my blog turned into a book...

again.

You might recall the first time I finished formatting every single page into a "book" someone killed my lap top and it was lost. I was pretty darn sad. Because it wasn't fun and it probably y took 100 hours. And then I just had to do it again.

So...I got year one done. Again.

Presenting.....!!!!!!

(Officially lost 64 pounds since beginning therapy)

The rest of the kids are on the back cover...

I know this is a slightly odd picture of me and cousin Scott on the first page. But I didn't put many pictures of myself in this first year. So I didn't have much to choose from. :) Plus I like the picture. I think it is happy.

I am quite happy with it. I am relieved it is permanently documented. It was worth the money and worth the time. I consider it my family history.

I think I am mostly done scrap booking. I use to live for it. But I am just NEVER going to get caught up. And I barely care to try at this point. Blogging is more fun and easier. And cheaper. So I might finish the little kids scrap books so they at least have some, but that is the end of that!

2 comments:

kirstensblog said...: priceless!; January 29, 2013 at 8:18 AM
Susan said...: DeAnn said...Good for you! Love ya!

Angela said...Susan u look great!!

Suzanne said...Great job on finishing the "blog book!" I wish I could do something as creative ~ I think yours turned out fantastic!! And BTW ~ you are lookin awesome, Susan!!

Mary said...It looks beautiful and so do you....what a great legacy for your kids....

Megan said...Looks great! And you look A...mazing!!!

Aine said...Thanks for posting it! Love the look - and I'm sooo there with you with the scrapbooking! And excited abt your weight loss! whoo-hoo!

Kim said...What an awesome thing! You look so great, Susan!

Viki said...I thought the book looked awesome. Nice job!

Jill said...Love it

Michelle said...That is SO exciting! What a meaningful gift for your family~ such a treasure! (Where can I get my copy? ) Just doing Gunnar's took me forEVAR so I can't imagine how long this one took you. Labor of love. And yes, you are a babe.

Susan said...I had to borrow money and get part of it as an early birthday present just to afford my copy! They are pricey! Thanks for all the compliments friends!!!

Rebecca said...That looks amazing!

Kirsten said...that is so priceless! And you look FABULOUS! I thought you looked like a teenager!

Nancy said...Book looks amazing! Your family will treasure it for a long time to come! You are looking great! So proud of you!

Robyn said..."The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." Way to show the genius you are!!

Kathleen said...Susan, this is so awesome!!! Congrats - you are successful on yet another level!

Angela said...You look AMAZING!! So proud of you!; February 10, 2013 at 10:32 PM

I know it is long but it is life altering!

C.S. Lewis- Meanwhile the cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning...It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. But it is immortals who we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption, and our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."

"Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are course; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fotune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity." Margaret D. Naduald

" Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Nelson Mandela-

More Holiness Give Me

Monday, January 28, 2013

I DID IT!!!!!

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