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in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
One year ago today, our precious Christin Danielle passed away from natural causes. Our world was forever changed, I honestly don’t think a parent ever get’s over the loss of their child, it is not the way things are supposed to happen. Our hearts were shattered, absolutely shattered. Life is different now, there is no doubt about that. Christin left an indelible mark on this world. Every person that she touched through her all too short 39 years of life was better for knowing Christin; her family, her students, her colleagues absolutely ache when thoughts of Christin enter their minds; she is missed so much, words can’t begin to describe how much. Our family is still reeling from the loss of Christin, not just our immediate family, but, our entire family. I know that her students will never, ever forget their “Miss Fun”. I also know that her colleagues are feeling her absence as well, she loved her job at AG Richardson Elementary and she loved all of you that she spent so many years working for and with.
A huge thank you to all of you who have reached out to us this week, your words have meant so very much and I thank you for remembering our sweet girl. After all, the memories are what keep her alive in our hearts and minds forever. I know that I will see her again when we are reunited in Heaven and until that day arrives, her memories will continue to comfort this mama’s broken heart. Once again, thank you to all who have reached out this week, your words mean the world to me and they do comfort all of us here in this family who are still mourning the loss of our beautiful, sweet, Christin.
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Good Day Lovelies! I am coming on here to let you know that I will not have a video this week or most likely next week either. I am having a dental/TMJ issue that I'm dealing with. After a visit to the dentist last week, I'm on antibiotics and will be getting a root canal and crown next week. I need some down time to take the stress level down a bit and to try and recover from this bit of nastiness (TMJ is nothing new to me I've dealt with it on and off through the years, but, as some of you know, it is quite painful at times). Don't y'all worry your pretty little heads about me, I will be fine, I just need some serious down time; I will be back as soon as I can...Much love and hugs all around!! 💗 BTW, if any of you need a dentist in the Fredericksburg area, I have the office for you, they were so wonderful with me. I will tell you all about them when I return. But, the name of the dentist is Vernon Williams, DDS at Family First Dental. Here is their website: yourfamilyfirstdental.com/
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Hi there Lovelies— I have had a few unexpected things come up this week and unfortunately I will most likely not be able to put up a video this week. My sincere apologies y’all. If I am unable to return this week, I will hopefully see you next week! Much love and hugs all around. ❤️❤️❤️xox❤️❤️❤️
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Good Evening Lovelies. I am writing this on Tuesday evening (July 30, 2024) and I have to be honest and tell y'all that I'm having a rough week of it over here. My grief has come back up strongly to the surface and has hit me like a ton of bricks. I will most likely not be coming on with a video this week and I'm terribly sorry. 😢
I will share a few collage pictures from our weekend with my dad, Candace, Sean, and Maverick--We had a wonderful visit. We all enjoyed the pool and Maverick is like a little fish and had a load of fun being tossed in the air (gently) and landing in the water. "Do it again" could probably be heard many times over around our neighborhood. haha We had a phenomenal time with everyone and it was amazing to have the kids and my dad here with us. ❤️
I will share a picture of the beautiful bench that Chris and I had created (it arrived at our house last Friday). We took it over to Culpeper, VA to AG Richardson Elementary School, Christin's school, today. What a wonderful visit we had with her co-workers, the hugs were long and sweet and so very heartfelt!! ❤️ They appreciated the bench so much and I know that they will choose the perfect place for it to reside. Every time someone pauses to sit and reflect, read, talk, and remember, our sweet Christin's memory will be honored. She left quite a legacy of kindness and love, she is remembered well and with so much love from so many people. ♥️ They all agreed that "Always Choose Kindness" was the perfect sentiment to describe and honor Christin. (By the way, I couldn't fit the entire bench picture in the room allowed on these particular "Community" pictures on YouTube, I'll show you a better picture when I come back)
ANYway, thank you for understanding that I'm just spent and that I need some time to gather myself again. Much love and hugs all around! I hope y'all are having a great week! 💗 I will try and come back next week.
PS: You will see Candace's partner Sean in one of the collages...And no, he is not 7 feet tall...hahaha. He is pretty tall, but, this picture made us all chuckle. 😉 (As you know, Chris and I are not all that short...lol).
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Hey y’all, I’m thinking of going LIVE on YouTube at around 1pm (Friday 5/23/24 Eastern Standard Time). I have no idea what we’ll talk about, but I thought I would just come live and chitchat with y’all for a little while today. 🩷
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Good Sunday Afternoon Lovelies!! I've MISSED you all!! Chris and I are currently driving on I-95 northbound heading home to Fredericksburg after enjoying a 9-Day Southern Caribbean Cruise on board Holland America's Rotterdam ship. Chris surprised me with this cruise several weeks ago y'all! We drove to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida from Fredericksburg, VA to catch the Rotterdam (it is about a 14 hour drive--we did stop on the way down in Jacksonville, but, we are driving straight. home today). I will be back this coming week with an "Outfit of the Day" video showing all of the outfits that I chose to wear on this cruise. Also, I'll be doing a little cruise report to let you know the highlights of our latest adventure. Y'all, we needed this cruise badly as we, as you all know by now, have been reeling from the loss of our sweet eldest daughter Christin to natural causes last November 2023. When Chris booked this cruise, we were feeling v-e-r-y down and it was difficult for us to just function normally within our days. This trip was meant to help us get a bit refreshed, we've had a lot on our plates for several months now. I can say that we both feel better after doing this lovely get-away. And leave it to Chris to realize that this was just what we needed. ANYway, as usual I am rambling. Again, look for my "Outfit of the Day" video to go up early this week, and then I'll be back "live" in front of the camera to tell you all of the tidbits AND to do a haul from the Delft shop that we visited while in Curaçao...whoop whoop!! See y'all then! I hope all is well with everyone! I've made up a few collage pictures for y'all to take a peak at for now. 💗 (There are 5 collage pics for y'all to peruse)
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Hi Everyone, well to say that these last 2 months have been devastatingly sad and overwhelming would be an understatement. We lost our sweet Christin on November 20th, 2023 to natural causes, the Monday before Thanksgiving. Somehow with the help of my wonderful family and many friends who sent their prayers, hugs, and unconditional love, we managed to traverse through Thanksgiving and then Christmas. Life has dealt, dare I say, the hardest blow any family needs to traverse through. But somehow, with God’s grace, we have managed to soldier on. 💔 (I will admit that each and every day I go through very sad moments where tears of sadness overtake me. 💔 )
Chris and I are currently on our way home from a cruise that we had planned and payed for over a year ago. When we first left our house on January 6th, I wondered how this cruise would be, would I be able to have a decent time, would our sadness be too much for our dear friends Barbara and Don to take? Would we be able to smile without breaking, could we ever find joy in *anything* again? Well, I said to myself, what would Christin want us to do? And I knew without a shadow of a doubt that she would want us to go and enjoy one thing that has always calmed our beings. So, here I will share some pictures of our time with our friends on the Emerald Princess cruise ship doing an “Ocean to Ocean Panama Canal Full-Transit” cruise. At first the smiles were super hard to muster, each step away from home was difficult, but as each day has passed and while our friends have been with us supporting us those smiles come a tiny bit easier. As well, I’ve spoken to my dad and Stacey (my sweet sister/cousin) texted to check on us, and well, things have gotten a little easier as each day has passed.
This time away has started to help to heal our broken hearts a little tiny bit. We will be home very soon to re-engage back into “real” life again. Yes, I will be returning to my YouTube channels a little bit at a time, Chris will get back to doing all of the things he does too. There is no specific time to grieve we know that, regardless, we are still grieving; I believe that we will always grieve the loss of our girl. 💔Life marches on and we know that Christin wouldn’t want us to stay stagnant in our grief, it is just not healthy for us to do so. Anyway, I hope that this post made sense and I hope that you enjoy these pictures of our latest cruise. Chris, Candace, and my entire family continue to be grateful and thank you all for your continued prayers, love, support, and grace as we tread in unknown waters without our Christin. Much love to all! ❤️
I will see you all later this week! ❤️
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Good Day Lovelies.
~Chris and I have been doing a really good job at keeping ourselves busy over here. Neither of us care for too much quiet, so we've found ourselves being super productive. It look us 3 days, but, today we finished "deconstructing" our Christmas decorating inside and outside. And if I'm honest, it feels really good to have it down and I almost feel as if I can breathe a little easier for the first time in quite a while.
~The hurt of losing our sweet daughter Christin still washes over me like a tidal wave each day and when that happens, I allow it to wash over me, I cry if I need to, I try to think of a wonderful memory of her (of which I have an infinite amount), and when that wave has passed, I try and focus and *move*, the *moving* in my mind and body is difficult but, I push myself because I can almost feel Christin nudging me to do so. She would not have wanted me to be stagnant, I just know she wouldn't, it just wasn't her nature.
~I actually walked into Home Goods today and did a little shopping for home decor. That is literally the first time I've done that since Christin passed away. I did purchase a few things that I will haul for you in my first video back.
~My plan is to come back to my YouTube channel when I'm ready to start decorating, I'm going to guess that it will be a *bit* before February rolls around just because I really do not care for idle time and I'm honestly getting bored and when that happens my mind wanders, a wandering mind for a grieving mama is not a good thing...so I must do something to focus my attention. I will still be taking most of January to grieve and mourn our loss though y'all. I so very much appreciate your grace during this time.
~ANYway, as you all pan through these pitiful pictures of our home devoid of any decorating, you will see how much we really do switch out for Christmas. We will have a lot of decorating to do once I get started again. Yes, I will be putting my blue and white cottage decor back up, but, I'm sure I will be making changes as to where items will be placed and I hopefully will be able to make it look fresh and new.
~Let me take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy New Year, honestly, I will not be sorry to say goodbye to 2023.
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Christmas this year, of course, was not the same after the loss of our beautiful Christin Dani, but, lil' Maverick helped to bring the magic of Christmas to us, if it weren't for him, the 4 of us (Chris, Candace, my dad, and myself) might have crumbled, instead we did our very best to bring a special Christmas to our sweet Maverick James. I hope that y'all had a very Merry Christmas, and once again, you parents out there, hug your children extra tight for me this year!! Much love and tons of hugs all around! ♥️
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Good Day Lovelies. Little Mr. Maverick and his mama Candace and of course pretty Pearl were here with us this past weekend. While still dealing with v-e-r-y sad hearts, this little tyke has brightened our days here! What a joyful child he is, always happy, always smiling, and full of personality (I even managed a couple of smiles, I honestly never thought I'd be able to smile again y'all)! ♥️
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Greetings ALL and welcome to my YouTube Channel! I live in Spotsylvania County in the beautiful State of Virginia. I feel so humbled and blessed to be able to share what crafting and decorating skills I have been gifted. I will teach you how to make gorgeous big bows, wreaths, centerpieces, and more. I love to make the corners of our country home cozy. Yes, I love to craft, but, decorating is my passion and I do a lot of it through the year. At times I will also share some of my tried and true recipes, our vacations, and my packing tips and tricks...no, not crafting or decorating, but, these things are another part of my life that I may be sharing.
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