OMG! Today has been a BLAST!!!! Kids and I headed to Crossroads, a program that helps low income families and homeless people and provides a bunch of different services.

It was a totally a blast~ it was friday and everyone was in a jovial mood. Lots of laughter and fun for sure.

We (daughter and I) helped sort through donations~ totally AMAZING~ hit the jackpot for size 18 months little boy clothes :) Baby Gap, Children's Place, Old Navy, OshKoshBabybyGosh, seriously cute boy things.

Then we came home and have started our "Painting Party". Katie is painting her bedroom. It is funtastic Lemon Blast and Lime Breeze checkerboard on one wall and then she hasn't decided yet on the other walls. Either solid or strips or... Something.

known 26 years. Trusted him, loved him, and he taught me... NEVER trust ANYONE.

ast 6 months keeping men, all men, at a distance. I just haven't been able to get comfortable letting any man in my life.

Here, in Ron, was a man I had

the father of one of the other victims. So their family has been assisting 2 victims to get over the betrayal of trust this man did.

I have spent the l

y made me aware of just how much damage that man did to so many people and so many families.

It is all far reaching~ my daughters best friends uncle is

st son, raised his wifes 2 boys and his daughter, and will never get to raise this son.

Preparing my victim's impact statement for his sentancing reall

him and all he is learning to do and I get a pang of sadness for his father and all he is missing out on.

Certainly he (my son's father) does not deser

an. For all the evil and vileness that is him, there was also a part of him that adored his son.

It is rather ironic that he never got to raise his olde

him and all he is learning to do and I get a pang of sadness for his father and all he is missing out on.

Certainly he (my son's father) does not deser

ve any contact with our son. I know that I will do all I can to ensure that he never sees the boy~

But there is a part of me that feels sorry for the m

it is :)

Can you believe, Allen will be a year old in just 30 days. How did that happen? My big boy is a toddler, not my little baby anymore.

I look at

r~ a white tree.

This is such a year of change that it just seemed the time to do something wildly different from the past. So a white Christmas tree

new and amazing memories for our family.

Last night we errected our Christmas tree. We still need to decorate it. A little something different this yea

Good Friday Morning Readers! It is another amazing day!

We wake up in our new house, there is a peace here, no one is feeling stressed, we are creating