I was an only child. My parents kept close to their extended family so my cousins began to feel like extended brothers and sisters. When I moved, what seemed far away, we lost contact. I developed some wonderful friends that filled the loss of family.
In my picture on the right is my cousin from Oklahoma with his daughter, in the smaller picture are cousins from two families. The darkheaded girl on the end is who I will be speaking of. The butterfly is symbolic of a special friend that I don't have a picture of.
I was very blessed by each of the pictured loved ones. When my sweetheart was in the throes (this is a great word to describe the pains of fighting cancer) of struggling with pain, doctors, chemotherapy, and all the fields of battle in cancer. These wonderful angels jumped in to lighten our load. My cousins and I had not seen each other for several years, but the ties are very strong. They couldn't be there with us, so they did what they could, such as sending funny jokes for us to laugh at...that is a biggie. There were calls to check on how we were doing and share something funny. I can't tell you how much it meant to my sweetheart to get those emails, and calls because he worried about me.
He didn't want me to be alone, and he was uplifted by their response to our need. They have not stopped now that he is gone. I still get the funny emails and calls. I am very thankful for their loving gifts. I pray for them to be blessed for their unselfish giving of time and love.
This is from Lori's writing prompt. I have put a link to her blog on the side bar.
I purchased several elements from StoneAccentsStudios to start creating my own family digital scrapbooks
The gingham background
and the butterfly are from http://scrapsationalscraps.blogspot.com/ .
The quickpageframe is from
mITSYBELLE
