I read this on Oprah Magazine and had to share!

This article is titled "Friendship Detox" "When poison pals infect your life, sometimes you just need to say goodbye-and good riddance" this got my attention! since I have been dealing with a guilt and sadness of a loss friendship, and need to learn that is not all my fault, I guess when you become a stay at home mom you rely on your friends a little more for confort and companionship. My children are great and love them but we all need our girlfriends!

After the article talks about the different types of toxic friendship she goes on to say "I've had a few such friendship terrorist in my life, and I'm absolutely certain I've been one at times, too, but part of growing up means knowing when to stop playing pretend. Remaining attached to some people is like slaving over a withered garden without realizing all the plants are dead. And letting the negative relationships suck up time and energy only deprives us of the opportunity to nurture and appreciate those friendships that actually work."

"The truth never fails to show itself in those "thousand little gestures." True friends bear each other's burdens and accept each other's weaknesses, because without reciprocity, there is nothing. Friendship is about collaboration, not domination. Because we should be stewards of each other's rooms, I am happy to help you keep yours clean, but life is too fleeting to let you continue trashing mine."

by Paige Williams

anyhow this article made my smile and I had to share it! will try to add some fun pictures of our week in Mammoth later on the weekend! now let see if I can get some friends to share the weekend with me!

Last week of february!

Considering in my last post I was still trying to catch up on January! I almost skip February all together! we had a fun month, we got to scrap with our friends, we went up to Mammoth for a week, It was our first trip there and we had such a great time! the girls love to see all that snow! Madeline had fun in ski school so much so she went back for another full day of lessons and wanted more! Becca she had fun sledding and playing in the snow! the ski class not so much! o well maybe next year! We came back on Friday and Saturday I went to Ever After Scrapbooks! my favorite local scrapbook store! They were having a party showcasing what they found and bought and brought back from CHA and there were some very cute things! and I also won a raffle there! and I got to bring home some cute paper and alpha letters! Saturday night went to a party in San Clemente for one of my husbands friends and that was fun and the food was yummy! still trying to get the recipe for the chicken with mushrooms it was good! then I spend part of the week sick with a cold that was no fun! Got some meds form the doc and doing great all ready! Madeline got her bike! she can not wait for spring so she can go bike riding with her friends! have to love that time of year! the kids get to play outside more, the sun stays up a bit more to play and we get to hang out and have a drink!

Some other fun things that happen in January

Let's see, we also had lots and lots of rain here in southern cal! and a few of my girlfriends and I went to CHA in Anaheim California (That stands for the Craft & Hobbie Association) We had a fun day of shopping and seeing a lot of different techniques with scrapbooking (we only went to the consumer show which was a lot of fun!) have to say as much as I was not looking forward to eating there the food was good! we participated in the largest cropathon! that was fun! I entered a couple of raffles and I won! two of them! one was for the Wacco tablet I can not wait to have the time to use it! and the other were some very cute school theme supplies! add to my stash of scrapbooking supplies! all in all it was a great fun day with my friends and a fun kid free weekend! (my kids were at my sisters house and had a fun time with their aunt and cousins) My husband and I had a fun kid free Sunday morning!

Sill trying to catch up for January!

So for New Years Eve we went up to Big Bear with my dear friend Bridget and her family, they have a cute cabin near Big Bear Lake. They have 3 kids and our 2 very close in age and they just got along well! which made it for a very nice stay The kids enjoyed sledding as well as making a snow men,their favorite part was drinking hot chocolate with marshmallow's! They also enjoyed playing the game apples to apples Jr. with the dads. We did most of the cooking only on New Years Eve that we went to Bridget's friends house and had some yummy ham and the kid had pizza! The weather was great for Big Bear! and it actually felt warm when the kids were playing in the snow! The drive home was beautiful, the winding roads and the snow in the mountains.

Christmas Time Scrapbooks!

I did get very excited to give my sisters, brother and niece a Christmas scrapbook! and I did have a fun time the week of x-mas with the help of my niece and Gracie doing 5 different scrapbooks! and We did get them done! but once I got the pictures that is were it got a bit crazy and just overwhelming! between me and my two sisters, brothers, and brother in law we had over 500 pictures! now the task on hand was to look them over and edit them and print them for the albums! I do hope they are happy with what I choose to do for them! we will see! I should have them all done by next month I hope! Just a couple of nights ago I worked on one of the albums and was able to finish it! (almost need to add a couple of more pages cause 20 was not enough!) we will see and will try to post some of the finished product soon!

How is this for a title? Were did january go???

And the end of December! it was a fun and busy month, we went and visit Santa at the annual Santa Train in Oceanside, will try to add pictures from this events another time. We also enjoyed going to the tree lighting ceremony in downtown Oceanside, (this is the only picture I got this year of the girls and Santa!) the annual River Ranch Xmas party was almost as fun as last year. (This year we had some Lama Drama and me right smack in the middle of it! o well I guess this is how you learn who your real friends are!) and the others what are they but fakers??? and why???
Christmas was at my sisters house in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico! and my kids had such a fun time with my family! and for the hubby it was hard I know, I saw it he was sad (and how can you not be sad when your younger brother dies, His mother far far away!) I did try and the girls did their part but only time is going to heal or make it less painful! We had a fun time, wrapping presents, playing with the cousins, eating yummy yummy food! we had such a good time! we did have a hard time leaving for home. New Years another story for next time.

Thursday December 17th

We had a busy day today, even though Becca was not feeling well, She has a little cold and I do hope it get better soon! we have a weekend packed with activities! reminder to e charge the camera battery! another do not forget to put the bucket of white wine sangria in the freezer.

This past few weeks have gone by way to fast! I miss not having the time to scrapbok! and hopefully January will be my time to do so! not ready t think about new years, but I am very excited to spend time with my family at x-mas! We get together every other year and tis year should be lots of fun! The girls are very excited to spend time with my family as well, specially playing with their cousins! We do have a holiday party tomorrow night, I do hope it turns out to be a fun night for us, because there is always that "element" that I am not looking forward to deal with, hopefully our "mutual friends" will be friends but you just never know!