Journaling reads:
I have spent a lifetime of trying to conform to other peoples’ vision of what I should be, how I should be and what I should look like. I’m done. I’m old (ish) and allowed to be grumpy! I’m pleasantly plump. So, STOP telling me about new diets and healthy eating - my doctor and I have this in hand. We’ve been doing this a LONG time so give it a rest!
I know you love me, but there are better ways to show it. Really! Ignore it when I look a little frumpy. I think I've earned the right to comfortable clothes and shoes, no makeup, and a casual hairdo after 52 years in the workforce, 56 if you count my babysitting business in junior high and high school. I promise I won’t embarrass you in public - too much! I’m just at the point in my life where I am saying to myself that life is too short and re-evaluating my priorities. I’d rather spend my time and money doing fun things I’ve always wanted to do and doing them with the people I love. I know it’s sometimes been hard when your friends’ mothers are so much younger and your mother could be your friends’ grandmothers. But Grandmas can be a lot of fun. Hopefully, God will let me know that joy, but I will never push you in that direction. I hated it and won’t do it to you. Once you’re in your own homes, don’t forget who and where I am. Come to visit or offer to come get me for a visit when I can no longer drive. Call me and send me pictures. They are so easy with cell phones and make old folks feel included. Mostly just LOVE me even if I’m a frumpy, grumpy old fuddy-duddy.
Process: Two papers are belnded together for the backgrund. After that, the LO is as easy as placing the elements and getting the text spaced around the graphics.
