Mamadukez Creationz: Thankful

Itz been a crazy week here. It started with an email from Amy Sumrall that I'd been accepted to her Creative Team! She iz such a great designer. I described her to my DH az "off the beaten path". I really like the style of her designz. Each designer haz such a unique style - I love the diversity. Tuesday and Wednesday waz the nuclear scan and then today waz the CT scan. The nuclear scan showed I do have an overactive thyroid. Gee, four kidz, 43 years old and still under a 130 pounds - who woulda guessed. But get thiz the specialist finally called me to book an appointment - January 28th!!! We had a pretty quiet and simple Thanksgiving. Thiz year my two oldest had dinner with their dad. My dad waz in New Hampshire with hiz girlfriend at some hotel'z Thanksgiving Feast. It was the first time in over 5 or 6 yearz that he wasn't with uz. After we ate dinner, we decided to go to the woodz for a walk. We went down by the water and then circled back around. It waz starting to get dark but I wanted to go right to go back into the woodz instead of to the left out. It was still light enough so we went right. A few yardz in we came across a little fir tree that waz decorated with stringz of popcorn and cranberriez. There were a few painted wood ornamentz hanging on it. But under it were some carrotz, applez and pearz. It obviously had just been done or the animalz would have had their Thanksgiving feast. One of the ornamentz waz "hope". We just accepted it az a sign from God. We decided after the scan today to go see if the animalz had indeed had their feast. They had!!! All that waz there were a few of the popcorn cranberry stringz. I took picturez and will be making a layout with them later tonight. In the meantime I have the layoutz I posted today to show you. The first one is from the November Inspiration Challenge by Brandi at Just For The Scrap Of It. I used Brandi's kit Cherish and the word art from the challenge.