one lucky mom…

{Earlier this week I was working away on a layout to share on the Lily Bee blog.  I had been perusing facebook earlier in the day and noticed a post by a friend, saying that she would be delivering her 6th baby sometime that day.  I was excited for her.  I worked away and completed my layout, wrote up a blog post to share on the lily bee blog, and started preparing dinner.  It was then that I thought again about Katrina, and came back down to my computer to peek in and see if she had shared photos of her new baby yet.  Imagine my shock and horror when I found her facebook page and started reading notes of condolences from her family and friends.  My first thought was that the baby hadn’t made it.  Heart-breaking.  It took me several minutes to grasp the fact that the baby was fine…but Katrina, my friend, had passed away shortly after the baby was delivered.  My heart broke in two.  Such a sad, sad, sad thing to happen.  I can’t even begin to imagine what this would be like for her husband and her six children.  And following along on her facebook page, I can see that she had more friends than anyone I know…seriously, she was that way – no matter how many friends she had, she made each of them feel loved and important.  If nothing else, it’s a huge reminder of what’s important (and what’s not)…living your life in a way that so many people would be impacted when you are gone, full of love and friendship and happiness, those are the most important things.  And, just like Katrina, I feel so blessed to have my sweet little family and I am grateful to have the opportunity to be a mom to my children.  It breaks my heart that she won’t have the opportunity to finish raising her children here on earth, but I am so grateful to be reminded again of the plan of salvation – knowing that our families can be forever, not just in this life, but truly for eternity…I can’t imagine not believing we’ll see our loved ones again…}

I am glad that I had spent that day reflecting on how much I love being a mother, and creating a scrapbook layout based on this idea.  Here’s a look at the layout I completed earlier this week:

And some of the details:

My layout was based on a sketch I created earlier this month:

Some of my fellow Lily Bee Design Team Members also created layouts based on this sketch – you can see them HERE.

If you like this sketch and want a chance to win some Lily Bee products, go HERE to see how you can play along and be entered to win something fun!! :)

And for those of you who have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the new Lily Bee collections – you can find them HERE at Two Peas and HERE at Scrapbook.com.