So 2008 is quickly coming to an end.. What are some of your best/favorite memories from this year?
Some of mine are:
My dad coming out in May for 2 weeks..
My Brother in law getting remarried - their wedding was amazing-
mine and Tims 3 year anniversary was pretty amazing too.
My Niece was born on March 19th. =D
Fourth of July was magical like always- family came out that we haven't seen in years. =D that's always great! :-4
The years almost over..
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ButterflyPrincess
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kayleneaussie
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My youngest son turned 21 this year
My youngest son is leaving the nest today
Meline came into my care
My brother in law lost his Battle with Cancer
My sister is battling cancer
My daughter and my daughter in law both had baby girls
My youngest son is leaving the nest today
Meline came into my care
My brother in law lost his Battle with Cancer
My sister is battling cancer
My daughter and my daughter in law both had baby girls
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ButterflyPrincess
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Sorry about losing your brother in law and I am sorry about your sister. 
Congrats on being a grandma!
That's great! :-4
Congrats on being a grandma!
That's great! :-4-
kayleneaussie
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ButterflyPrincess;1084244 wrote: Sorry about losing your brother in law and I am sorry about your sister.
Congrats on being a grandma! That's great! :-4
19 grandchildren now
Life comes in cycles I suppose someone leaves and a new life begins :-4
Congrats on being a grandma!
That's great! :-419 grandchildren now
Life comes in cycles I suppose someone leaves and a new life begins :-4
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ButterflyPrincess
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That's the way it is..
Wow! You have a big family like mine. My gram has 25 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Wow! You have a big family like mine. My gram has 25 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The years almost over..
I got a job!
Four little words that changed my life! :-4
I had been hunting desperately for a job for a whole year (I think my desperation put people off). I went from applying for jobs I wanted to applying for just about anything. And still didn't get it. We had no money and were on the point of losing our home because we couldn't afford the rent. I was incredibly low, very depressed, had no one to talk to. My daughter was being bullied in school, my son did badly in his exams because the neighbours made so much constant noise he couldn't revise, couldn't even sleep. Our lives was at rock bottom.
Then in January I got a wonderful job, working in a school. It was a job I really wanted and never thought I'd get. About 200 people applied for it. And I amazingly, miraculously got it. It has changed my life! Everyone, from headmistress to cleaning staff, is absolutely lovely. They are all so warm and kind and friendly! It is a better job than anything else I applied for! I now have friends who care, whom I can talk to and laugh with. They don't let me get depressed any more. I was mourning my third miscarriage but I now have 300+ children in my life, several of whom hug me every single day. :-4 I have money to buy my kids christmas presents with and to treat the family with, as well as to pay bills and rent with.
We have a wonderful local college. They took my son, with his lower-than-expected qualifications and put him on a one year foundation course. Next year he will go onto a two year computer course and retake the exams he did badly in. Then he can go onto a 2 year HND course and then onto University. It's a longer course but he's being given a better grounding in computers than he got at school.
He started in September 2008 and he absolutely loves it! He's made some great new friends whom he socialises with outside of college. He loves his tutors whose every word is Bible to him. He loves Ubunto (?) which is something to do with Linux, but over my head (as are most of our computer-related conversations these days! :wah:) He's just plain excited about everything to do with his course and he hasn't missed a single day (apart from one when he was pretty sick and boy, did he complain when I made him stay home!)
My daughter also has a place for next year. She will follow exactly the same path except hers will be an art route, rather than a computer route. They have been very sympathetic about her bullying and her foundation class is for a group of only 12 students who have all gone through some form of hard time which makes all the students very understanding and accepting of each other. They go out on two special days very early in the course, where they work on team work projects. One is where they stack crates as high as they can. One child is roped to a tree and has to climb higher and higher on the stack. The others are at the bottom of the stack, passing up crates or also roped to the stack as they pass crates to the top. The college have photographs which make it look fantastic fun and it builds on their confidence and helps make them friends. They also do quadbiking and archery and there is a rope walkway through the treetops to walk along. There was so much to do, I can't remember it all.
The college work at putting some fun back into the lives of these children who've had such a tough time. It helps them socialise again and offers a huge range of activities. They also offer them taster sessions before they make their final choice of classes. One choice is engineering where they'll be making huge metal butterflies to decorate the Quad in the college. Who would have thought engineering could be combined with artwork? My daughter is excited about the orienteering days and looking forward to trying all the different classes out. It's the first real thing she's looked forward to in a very long time! And even better than that, they know the names of the girls who bullied her. If these girls join the college, even though they won't be in her class, if they see my daughter and try to single her out she simply has to talk to her tutor. The girls will get one warning and then they're kicked out! No messing! If only her school had had a similar policy!!
This time last year I remember sobbing my heart out. Everything was going wrong for us, not one single good thing happened. It just seemed like we were being kicked and kicked again. I despaired of what would happen to us, what sort of future my children would have.
Then I was offered my job!
What a blessing!
Now everything is warm and rosy (bar the neighbours!) We don't have tons of money but we can afford to pay our rent and bills now. We can go out on weekends and treat our children. We can buy nice things we see and treat ourselves. I'm hoping we can save enough to go to Disneyland next year (my daughter has wanted to go for years).
Last year I was in despair, this year the future looks very rosy! It has been an incredibly lucky year for us and I hope that luck will continue onwards for many years.
And I hope anyone who is feeling as low and desperate as I was feeling last year can see that life can turn on a sixpence (or a dime) and go from dreadful to wonderful. If it can change for me, it can change for anyone. Never give up hope.
To go off at a huge tangent, I always wondered what good hope was when Pandora's box was opened. All the evils of the world thundered out and a little hope was left in the corner of the box. However, last year I came to see what a huge thing hope was. Hoping that each job interview might get me a job or hoping that the occasional lottery ticket might be a winner or hoping that someone would offer me a job or hoping something unexpectedly lucky would happen. It might be mad but hoping that things would change is what got me through. Hoping somehow that soon things would get better. Hope was all I hung onto. And eventually things did change. It took a while for us to get back on our feet again, pay off some bills, buy the kids some new clothes, etc. But gradually we have begun to have a better lifestyle and I'm so glad that our lives have improved. I thank God for it everyday and I enjoy my job every day.
Yes, 2008 was a good year for me. A great year! I got a job and my life turned around.
Four little words that changed my life! :-4
I had been hunting desperately for a job for a whole year (I think my desperation put people off). I went from applying for jobs I wanted to applying for just about anything. And still didn't get it. We had no money and were on the point of losing our home because we couldn't afford the rent. I was incredibly low, very depressed, had no one to talk to. My daughter was being bullied in school, my son did badly in his exams because the neighbours made so much constant noise he couldn't revise, couldn't even sleep. Our lives was at rock bottom.
Then in January I got a wonderful job, working in a school. It was a job I really wanted and never thought I'd get. About 200 people applied for it. And I amazingly, miraculously got it. It has changed my life! Everyone, from headmistress to cleaning staff, is absolutely lovely. They are all so warm and kind and friendly! It is a better job than anything else I applied for! I now have friends who care, whom I can talk to and laugh with. They don't let me get depressed any more. I was mourning my third miscarriage but I now have 300+ children in my life, several of whom hug me every single day. :-4 I have money to buy my kids christmas presents with and to treat the family with, as well as to pay bills and rent with.
We have a wonderful local college. They took my son, with his lower-than-expected qualifications and put him on a one year foundation course. Next year he will go onto a two year computer course and retake the exams he did badly in. Then he can go onto a 2 year HND course and then onto University. It's a longer course but he's being given a better grounding in computers than he got at school.
He started in September 2008 and he absolutely loves it! He's made some great new friends whom he socialises with outside of college. He loves his tutors whose every word is Bible to him. He loves Ubunto (?) which is something to do with Linux, but over my head (as are most of our computer-related conversations these days! :wah:) He's just plain excited about everything to do with his course and he hasn't missed a single day (apart from one when he was pretty sick and boy, did he complain when I made him stay home!)
My daughter also has a place for next year. She will follow exactly the same path except hers will be an art route, rather than a computer route. They have been very sympathetic about her bullying and her foundation class is for a group of only 12 students who have all gone through some form of hard time which makes all the students very understanding and accepting of each other. They go out on two special days very early in the course, where they work on team work projects. One is where they stack crates as high as they can. One child is roped to a tree and has to climb higher and higher on the stack. The others are at the bottom of the stack, passing up crates or also roped to the stack as they pass crates to the top. The college have photographs which make it look fantastic fun and it builds on their confidence and helps make them friends. They also do quadbiking and archery and there is a rope walkway through the treetops to walk along. There was so much to do, I can't remember it all.
The college work at putting some fun back into the lives of these children who've had such a tough time. It helps them socialise again and offers a huge range of activities. They also offer them taster sessions before they make their final choice of classes. One choice is engineering where they'll be making huge metal butterflies to decorate the Quad in the college. Who would have thought engineering could be combined with artwork? My daughter is excited about the orienteering days and looking forward to trying all the different classes out. It's the first real thing she's looked forward to in a very long time! And even better than that, they know the names of the girls who bullied her. If these girls join the college, even though they won't be in her class, if they see my daughter and try to single her out she simply has to talk to her tutor. The girls will get one warning and then they're kicked out! No messing! If only her school had had a similar policy!!
This time last year I remember sobbing my heart out. Everything was going wrong for us, not one single good thing happened. It just seemed like we were being kicked and kicked again. I despaired of what would happen to us, what sort of future my children would have.
Then I was offered my job!
What a blessing!
Now everything is warm and rosy (bar the neighbours!) We don't have tons of money but we can afford to pay our rent and bills now. We can go out on weekends and treat our children. We can buy nice things we see and treat ourselves. I'm hoping we can save enough to go to Disneyland next year (my daughter has wanted to go for years).
Last year I was in despair, this year the future looks very rosy! It has been an incredibly lucky year for us and I hope that luck will continue onwards for many years.
And I hope anyone who is feeling as low and desperate as I was feeling last year can see that life can turn on a sixpence (or a dime) and go from dreadful to wonderful. If it can change for me, it can change for anyone. Never give up hope.
To go off at a huge tangent, I always wondered what good hope was when Pandora's box was opened. All the evils of the world thundered out and a little hope was left in the corner of the box. However, last year I came to see what a huge thing hope was. Hoping that each job interview might get me a job or hoping that the occasional lottery ticket might be a winner or hoping that someone would offer me a job or hoping something unexpectedly lucky would happen. It might be mad but hoping that things would change is what got me through. Hoping somehow that soon things would get better. Hope was all I hung onto. And eventually things did change.
It took a while for us to get back on our feet again, pay off some bills, buy the kids some new clothes, etc. But gradually we have begun to have a better lifestyle and I'm so glad that our lives have improved. I thank God for it everyday and I enjoy my job every day. Yes, 2008 was a good year for me. A great year! I got a job and my life turned around.
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ButterflyPrincess
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that is wonderful Rapunzel! I am happy for you.
Congrats!!
Congrats!!