connection keeping

Mama had an appt with her attorney about her will, and Anna and I went along with her. After the appt, we went to Hobby Lobby. Anna and I can’t be left to our own devices. We were playing with all the florals and taking photos. Mama heard us giggling from several aisles back and asked us what we...

Visiting our local mall last weekend.

I tried to recreate the feeling of standing on the prairie, far away from anything else. Just an open expanse of sky, grass, water, and presumed alligators. These days, the trail no longer goes out into the prairie like this (following massive flooding from a hurricane) so I'm extra grateful I...

Finn made me a Mother's Day gift at school. He was so excited to see me when I picked him up from school. He immediately gave me his gift. We opened it when we came home from school. He made me heart in beads with his photo. It was so cute. He was so proud. My heart is full.

This one I scrapped with the challenge in mind. What's more of a "flowing line" than a sea of flowers? I wanted a photo in front of the fountain and everything grew from there (pun intended)

Re-vamped template from Fiddle-dee-dee, Grateful for You Papers and elements from Connection Keeping, Outdoor Exploration

Connect & Create May: Details + Timeline of Events

New templates from Fiddle-dee-dee, Days of our Lives Papers and elements from Bold March by Connection Keeping

New templates from Fiddle-dee-dee, You are a Shining Star Papers and elements from Connection Keeping, Quite Sporting: Baseball and Softball

Layout for May26 iNSD Template Mash-Up Challenge Kit: ck-always-us Template: fdd_iNSD2026_TemplateChallenge_tp1 & nsd2026_soco_freebie

Created for the iNSD Tic-Tac-Toe challenge

Baptism, Blessed, Family, Journey,

Hanging out with my niece & nephew--I love them!

When Cheryl released her first set of templates in memory of her mama, I struggled to find digitized photos of my stepdad. My mama let me borrow her wedding album to scan photos in case I felt the need to scrap them. It's only right that I use them with this template set. Everything was built...

Technically, the two Earth Day pages aren't a double page spread; they're actually back to back. No one is surprised that I needed two pages to tell this story though ;)

Technically, the two Earth Day pages aren't a double page spread; they're actually back to back. No one is surprised that I needed two pages to tell this story though ;)

Layout for Apr26 Connect and Create Chasing Use a colorized black and white photo Kit: treed-storyfoundations-brighterdays treed-storyfoundations-faves ck-soco_daybreak

For April 2026 Connect and Create - Surprise + 4 or more pocket cards

For April 2026 Connect and Create - In the Moment + photostrip

Connect and Create April: Capture + Selective Color (tulips)

for the April Connect and Create challenge - Light-& Mix & Match Textures from Nature

for the April Connect and Create - Sprinkle-&-In-The-Mail

When I chose this kit, I didn't realize that I might still be waiting to finalize this page when the month ends. I decided to just blur the sensitive information and post it now (for April's challenge), since his updated needs level might not actually get updated with the state before next...