"Blogged 6-21-09" by Stacey
Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 5:00AM Here's Stacey:
This challenge is one that inspired several layout ideas for me. I finally chose to use a set of photos from summer 2006 and a blog entry from Father’s Day of this year to do this layout about my dad and chocolate chip cookies. The journaling is a bit different than usual for me because I had written this particular blog entry to an audience (a rather small one, to be sure) and it reads almost like a letter to someone, which is exactly what it is.
I am pretty sure that my dad wouldn’t have really liked this photo because I caught him in the act of munching on a cookie, but it is the only one I got of him that day, so I used it. I truly just love that I have the photo at all!
In the past Good Grief challenges, I have stuck to mostly solid cardstock with very basic patterned backgrounds and minimal embellishing. I just don’t seem to be able to make these layouts very colorful or fluffy, possibly because they have mostly been about grief and also because they are masculine. I feel like I made this one a little more fun, a little less somber, although I may be the only one to really notice a difference.
I hope this challenge inspires you to record some special food-related memories of your loved one!
Journaling:
Happy Father's Day.
If you have your dad still, I hope you got to love on him a little bit today. I am missing mine very much on this day. I was thinking about him, getting a little teary-eyed, and then realized it was Father's Day... I guess it makes sense.
I'd have taken him homemade chocolate chip cookies today, one container for everyone else and one just for him. He always got possessive about the cookies I made him and I finally realized he was better off not having to share! I always gave him a shirt, too. He just always liked a new shirt. No surprises, really. When he died, one of the worst moments I had in the days following was when I opened his closet to get something. Something about all his clothes organized so perfectly...
It's been quite a while since I have felt it so intensely. I really, really miss him.
And I am wearing mascara for the first time in at least a week...what timing. Oh, well, it feels strangely comforting to cry a little bit and just miss my daddy.
Hug your dad today!
{he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The LORD has spoken. Isaiah 25:8}
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Remember, due to the holidays and such, both this challenge and the previous one (with the beautiful holiday inspired prize by PixiePetals) are due on Saturday, November 28 (by midnight). Post your take on the challenges online and link us up in the comments of the appropriate challenge post. (So, for this challenge, be sure to comment under the original challenge post for your chance to win a copy of my book, okay?)
Reader Comments (4)
My dad is a cookie monster too, Stacey, especially when it comes to my raspberry chocolate chip cookies. : ) Thank you for the inspiration to scrap this about him.
Oh this has inspired me to create a page about my Dad's love for watermelon!! Thanks!! I truly do enjoy your Blog!!:) Leslie
Yeah, I am forever getting emotional at work ... with mascara on ... lol. I want to take this time to say thank you for this blog. I haven't been able to record my feelings over my mom's death. Not yet. She passed in February, very suddenly. But reading your thoughts and feelings makes me feel a little less alone in this. I hope to get to the point where I can do layouts to celebrate her ... and I think you are helping. Thank you.
This is great ... I love that you made your dad a separate batch of his own cookies! He sounds like my Dad, sneaking cookies! :)