This digital scrapbooking layout of my grandson, Raevyn, makes me a little misty-eyed when I look at it. Isn’t he a beautiful boy?
We haven’t seen him for two years now. His mom took him off and purposely doesn’t let us know where he is. She moves around a lot. The word is that she recently got married and has another child. She reappeared early this month, called my son up and asked him to come to St. George with $50 because she had “something to tell him”.
Stephen couldn’t do that because…
- He is handicapped and doesn’t have access to his money without the permission of my husband. Social Security has Gary set up as his guardian.
- The last time she reappeared, we had a very ugly time of it. I’ll spare you the details. The good thing about what happened is that we took care of him for a year and that allowed us to know him.
- Stephen doesn’t have the ability to go anywhere.
The sad thing about all of this is that Raevyn is entitled to get Social Security payments because Stephen is on Social Security He can’t possibly pay child support so Social Security covers it. But since his mom won’t tell us where they are, we can’t get it set up for him to receive.
He’s handicapped, like his dad, and so I worry about him. I hope I get to see him again someday.
Thus the melancholy when I look at this digital scrapbook layout I created. I designed it so it wouldn’t distract from the photo. After all, it’s the star of this show.
But you know what? It’s all good. Digital scrapbook layouts should cover all of our lives – not just the happy, giddy parts of it. We are complete people. Our albums should demonstrate this.
Challenge:
Make a layout about something that brings up tender feelings. If you’d love to show it to me, I’d love to see it. Put the link in the comment section. I promise I’ll look!
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