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Friday 11 December 2009

Hello my lovely bloggy buddies!!!!  I have a few things to show you today.  I hasve used photo's which are pretty special to me for these LO's.  Both the large words are from the TANDO range.

  Yes, this is my Nanny with only 9 of her 11 children.  My Mum is the little one in the front with a white pinny.  I so felt for Nanny as she was constantly pregnant up till she was 45.  She also had several miscarraiges along the way.  She told me that although she loved all her children she would cry when she saw the nieghbouring wives going into town together with just one pram.  She could never do that!!!  But she did live till she was 99 so it wasn't bad for her health, Bless Her!



The 2nd LO is of my daughter when she was 7, in 1992.  That was an awful winter as she was in & out of hospital with a mysterious bowel & kidney infection.  This was taken on a rare day home when we visited Santa to cheer her up.  You can see how pale she is but I wanted to scrap it as it shows her determination to still have fun!  They never did get to the root of the problem & she still has regular kidney infections poor love.


Thank you for looking at these today.  I hope all your Christmas preparations are going well, HUGS XXX

9 comments:

CLARE said...

Fab LO's Karen. Blimey - thats a lot of children -my nan had 6 and I thought that was a lot! Love the paper you have used in the second LO, I really wish I'd taken more photos of my kids with Santa, they are such special memories. Lovely work x

Crafting Queen said...

Hi Karen these are two lovely layouts. Your grandmother sounds like an interesting lady. Have a great weekend. Anesha

Janice said...

These are great layouts Karen, lots of family memories.

Gez Butterworth said...

awe, Karen...Thank You for sharing your wonderful LO's & memories. Your daughter most certainly is your Christmas Angel. Congratulations to your nan for having so many children & for living to a fantastic age. Take care. Hope you have a lovely weekend. BIG hugs Gez x x x

cheryl said...

oh hun love these I have several scarbooks too of my family about 15 I have done so many more to do as always taking pictures,yours is great I do not have any of my family sadly just my 2 and my other halfs,side,but you have made a brilliant job with these photos hun love hugs cheryl xxx

Scrappy~Sarah said...

fantastic los :)

Hazel said...

Two very special LOs - precious photos and precious memories x

lisa said...

What gorgeous LO's Karen and I love the stories behind them.

Lisax

Traceyr said...

Two very special layouts for two very special ladies in your life. These are something to treasure Karen they are brilliant.

:)