Heaven bound Father Day wishes to my father’s

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. ~ Pope John XXIII I don't know about you but I think that as an adoptee often we naturally go in search of our birth moms and our dads kind of come later.  We likely do this because we associate our Birth Mothers as the ones that birthed us and gave us up.  And I've been in the adoption triad long enough to know that there are many scenarios regarding ones relinquishment but I am just talking in the sense of how...
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Tribute to our Veterans

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -John Stuart Mill "A pittance of time" by Terry Kelly. [youtube]http://youtu.b...
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Wonder Woman (Canadianized :) )

OK you asked for it and I know it’s getting close to crunch time for Halloween but I was asked to post it none the less so here ya go! This is the pattern of sorts for the Wonder Woman costume I made for the Drop Zone event. I’ll post the steps and then pot a list of items required.    So to start I made a template for each item.  Below is the cut out (from paper bags) of the head band, boot band and waist band. Then I bought fun foam at Lens Mills and outlined the designs onto that and ...
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Giving thanks

“Be present in all things and thankful for all things.” ~Maya Angelou~   Normally I would blog on Tuesday but of course I couldn't let the day go by without popping in a saying Happy Thanksgiving to all in our corner of the world here in Canada. I'm thankful for so very much and for those that know me know that I have had faced health challenges and I am so thankful to have come out the other side of them time and time again.  I truly have learned how to be thankful for each day and ...
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