Life Is Not Measured By.........

Life, is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take out breath away. I have just experienced one of the few moments. I am in awe at the overwhelming love and support you have showed us!!

I just want to thank everyone who left a comment on my last post regarding Stephanie, you have truly taken my breath away with all your love and support, not to mention that I was brought to tears reading all the posts each one filled with care and concern!! I am so blessed to have so many kind and wonderful readers.

So since Friday I have spoken at great length with Steph's current aide, Jason, friends, and of course Steph. We have decided that we will be keeping her in her elementary school for another year, then she will transition into her gr. 9 program from there. What a relief to have this decision out from under us. Steph's aide was very helpful, actually she is also Megan's aide in the afternoon and has been with Megan since she entered kindergarten. One of the things that Steph's aide mentioned was that her self esteem is already low (she does realize she is not like her peers)and that we will have to find ways to build her up. So if you have any suggestions on the way the we and the school can encourage and build her up more I would love to hear them. Thank you so much for all your prayers and support, you definately helped us make complete peace with our decision. Steph is coming to terms with our decision and actually seemed to be making her peace with it too. Her main concern was keeping contact with her 2 friends who will be moving on to grade 8, we have assured her that they will still be able to come over for sleepovers, and she can always meet up with them after school. Steph did seem very relieved at not having to go to our local high school, so this is very promising. Once again huge {{{HUGS}}} and THANK YOUS for all your love and support!!


This card was made using yesterday's inspiration challenge, this photo was to be our inspiration, so I took the airiness and color palate from it to create my card. I just love this set from Papertrey, not only is it gorgeous but, it has so many inspirational quotes with it making so easy to make beautiful cards.

One more thing I need to note is my email account has been sending a lot of my incoming email to my spam folder, so I have retrieved them all and am now going to work on responding to them all, so if you haven't heard from me this is why. I am so sorry about this, if it hadn't been called to my attention by someone leaving a comment on my blog I never would have known. I am assuming they have recently changed the spam filter now I just have to find out how to change it back.

Supplies: Papetrey stamps, out on a limb, river rock, soft sky, and white card stock, soft sky and river rock ink, ribbon, brads, and liquid pearls.