This is a visual of the sad reality of turning 50. At that point, your body just starts decaying and breaking - I was shocked to see that there were four appointment cards from different doctors waiting to be written on the calendar when I flip it over on Monday. Yikes!! But not as shocked as I was when I found out that I had been walking around on a broken foot for a couple of months. I don't even have a good story about how I fractured my foot. There is no horrific snowboard story, of how I deified death and only walked away with a broken foot and not a broken neck. I didn't fall down the stairs and live to tell about it. No. I just went to Zumba. Not training for a marathon. Didn't fall in Zumba. Nothing cool like that. Just the fact that after I turned 50 (a couple of years ago) it has been a fast downhill slide, ending in three stress fractures from DANCING? Mike says that I was trying too hard to keep up with the young'ns! But the worst part? In my house, I don't get ANY sympathy for a foot cast. When I tried to complain, he politely told me that he wore one of those casts for two and half years after his 30 foot fall. When I persisted to get a little compassion, I was told that AFTER he wore the cast for two and half years, they cut his leg off - THREE TIMES!!! I gave up and limped out to the kitchen for my own coffee. This is going to be a lonnnng month!

It is starting to look a little like Easter around here - at the beginning of the year, just like a lot of people, I made some New Year's Resolutions and then I double made them again, when I started Ali Edwards' "One Little Word" and chose the word "commit" as my word for 2013. In a way, I sealed the deal. My resolutions are unbreakable, if I have to account for them every day! I may live to regret this! LOL. One of the things that I "committed" to for 2013 was to get back in the habit of doing some of the crafts that I gave up when I became an addicted scrapbooker. Over time, my paints have dried up, I basically gave away all of my pattern books and goodness only knows where all my brushes went to - I have not made a wreath, or painted a wooden cut out for many, many years! Every month of 2013, I have to dig out old supplies and complete a craft project from a category that IS NOT scrapbooking! March was assigned to woodcraft of some kind. My wonderful husband cut out the bunnies for me and they turned out pretty good - I still have to sand the edges on the two table bunnies, but that will not take a fraction of the time that it took to find the dremel! I also have crossed off the fresh floral table piece that I wanted to complete, as I made it for my Mom for a special meal that she was planning on hosting. The next project that I plan on tackling is the quilting fabric that I bought for a baby quilt for Peyton. I had not bothered to sew it when she was born, as she received many beautiful baby quilts, but now that she is a little lady, I thought I might make her a twin bed sized quilt. Maybe over Easter holidays? I totally forgot some of the perfectly lovely crafts that I gave up for the art of scrapbooking, I feel like I am experiencing them for the first time and it feels good to give my head a break from the constant scrapbook thoughts that run through my mind. On to quilting!!