....and I'm addicted to everything creative. I have found that if I spend even just a few minutes a day in my craft room I am a much happier nicer person to be around!!! I was a SAHM for years and loved it but for the past 11 have been working full time in the medical profession. I have two of my own daughters 19 and 16 and am guardian to my late husband's daugher 15 and son 11. Oh yes, and mother to a lazy black kitty!! I live in the Pacific Northwest in Eastern Washington. ....and I have to tell you all that I haven't had so much fun in a long time hanging out with you all...looking forward to getting to know everyone. 
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Hi Carol! Sorry to hear about your husband. I agree if I don't get to scrap a little everyday I get crabby!
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Hey Sis!!! So glad you came on over. And for anyone else's information Carol is one of the most amazing people I know. A few years ago, when DD was 18ish, she said to me one day that if she ever had to write another one of those silly essays for school on who their idol was, it would be about Aunt Carol. And if Aunt Carol's kids didn't appreciat what she did for them, she was going to go over and beat it into their heads! It's fun when kids start to get old enough that they can see and appreciate the sacrifices that Parents make for them.
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OK Carol, I did a sibling page...............pretty weird, started without a photo, and now I need a photo to finish it. The only one I can find of the two of us is a crappy one with my eyes closed!!---when we were at craters of the moon............I have ones of you and me in Canada, but none of us in the same picture!! I can't believe I didn't make Angie take one when we were visiting and she had her new camera!!
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Carol, its so nice to meet. You sound like an amazing person and a great mom
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Thank you...nice to meet you too!!
Gwen--want me to scan one and send it to you? Let me see what I can find.
Just watched a movie with the little ones so I'm back in my hideaway now ready to work on my LO....hope it turns out cute!!
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Carol --it's nice to meet you---I live in Western Washington --gotta love the PNW!
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Oh Carol, I am soooo tired!! Remember we were talking about that service thing........right now I am so tired of having to "serve" John (DH) that I can hardly stand it!! Hopefully he will get a walking cast or boot when he goes to the doctor this week and I won't have to wait on him so much. I can't even imagine how tired you were before your DH died. Give me strength!!!
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Remember you are truly blessed to have him.....and that when giving service to him with his hurt foot will really come back to you, when you're not so tired!!!...in that you will love him even more. At the end with Randy I hadn't hardly slept in 13 days and he didn't know me the last several, but that one little glimmer of the man I loved so much right before he passed had so much love in it...I think that in that split half second he finally was free from pain. I do know those Anderson boys can be babies, but, help him with a smile on your face and it will give you strength!!! I promise!!! Remember he is hurting and probably so frusterated he can't do things for himself right now....{REMEMBER-----resist the temptation of smothering him with a pillow <s>!!!!!} Going to bed myself, gotta teach those cute little 3 year old Sunbeams in the morning...yep, life is good!!!! xo
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I have been the invalid pretty often, and I think you must be a saint, as my mom and my DH both are, having taken care of me during 5 hip surgeries! I will say this: after my last hip surgery, I had just gotten released off of crutches - hallelujah! I was laying in bed just before we went to sleep and asked Jeff if he would go and get me something or other. He looked at me and said, "You've got legs!" (as in, get it yourself!)
You, too, can look forward to this happy day!
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hi carol!
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Carol, I just noticed that Sherry hasn't inducted you with a Youtube video yet....so, this is for you from me....
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Marci, that's EXACTLY the one I would have picked for Carol!
Carol and Gwen, you two are awesome. I don't think of myself as a good nurse and dread the day I may have to be nurse to my mate. I tell DH that I hope I go first -- for many reasons, but that whole nurse thing is one of them.
And Carol, welcome aboard!
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HI Carol...so very nice to meet you! So glad you are having fun hanging out with us!!
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Hello Carol!
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Thanks Krista!! You made me giggle..........I can't wait for the day when I can just say "you've got legs!" Hopefully it will be Thursday when he can start walking by himself a bit!
Sherry..........When my MIL passed away a year ago, DH looked at me and said "I'm dying first............I'm not going to go through this!" I am not a good nurse, but I don't see him being one either!
I get upset too easily. Carol's DH had cancer and she nursed him for months and months. She married him knowing what she would have to do.........I can' remember how long they were married, but close to a year..........and now she has taken responsibility for his children whose Mother had died of cancer previously. I think of how excited I am that my youngest child is almost 18 and out on his own.........and then think of the commitment Carol made to raise those kids when she could be child free like me in pretty close to the same time frame---it makes me feel so selfish and irresponsible. Noone could love any more than to give up their life to raise someone elses children so they would feel loved and have a Mother, and a single Mother at that!
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Hello Carol.... It's great to meet you and learn a bit about you. You sound like an amazing mom and great sis. hehe
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I love the Youtube song...it's great!!!! I've never heard that song, I just had it playing now and my daughter came in to my craftroon and wanted to know what in the world I was listening to!!! I told her it was my song!! Perfect!!
It's so great to meet all of you too....and I'm SO GLAD I can get on this site from work, most of these kind of forums are blocked by my work internet...so yeah!!! I have a new stress relief place to go play during the day!!
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Yes Carol, you should hang around here more often. Then when our lives get carried away with us and we don't get the time to talk to each other for a long time, we can at least say Hi on here!!
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Oh, Carol! Neil Sedaka, woman! I was soooooooooo in love with him when I was about ten!
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