Every now and then you get to do a page about a truly life changing moment. This page is one of them.
Three years ago as my mom was in the late stages of colon cancer, I made the decision to move Nigel and I to my parents house - (1) To help my dad in dealing with the physical and emotional demands that accompany dealing with this horrible desease and (2) so that I could spend more time with my mom in her final months and Nigel could get to know his mommom better. As with any decision, this one also had it's pros and cons. On the positive side, we got to spend more time with my mom. On the negative side, she was in the worst condition healthwise that a person could be in. Oftentimes Nigel had to se her in pain. On the positive side, our new home was in a much better neighborhood with a much better school district. On the negative side, he had to leave everything he'd known since birth. The one thing that really saddened me was that in his new house he didn't really have a space of his own. There were two extra rooms, but one was filled from floor to ceiling with junk. Although my dad has never been officially diagonosed as a Hoarder, he is definately what one would call a "Hoarder in Training". lol. Five or six months after we moved in my mom passed. Shortly after that my dad went to Florida for a year to find a happier place (both inside and out). When he left, he told me he was sorry he couldn't help, but to do whatever I needed to do to make Nigel and I happy and comfortable. I put together this room to sorta compensate for everything Nigel had to go through. I wanted it to be perfect. Nothing's perfect, but I'd like to think a came close!
Life is like this sliding scale between structure and chaos and we're always struggling to maintain balance between the two. A construction site is the perfect embodiment of that. I like to call it "ordered mahem". Anyone who's ever had an extensive home improvement project done knows what I'm talking about. You get to a point where you're like "I just want my life and my home back"!! Then magically in a week or so it all seems to come together. In this layout I was trying to capture that correlation between life, construction and scrapbooking.
I used Anna's: Artsy Layered Template #53