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I knew when I saw this challenge that my loss of self after my third child was what I wanted to scrap. It is a page I have been putting off doing for over a year. Everything is from Erica's Destinations Collection. I used the Starbright layer styles and Ro's Neutral Drop Shadows too. The journaling reads:
We had been planning this trip for months: a day at Disney’s Animal Kingdom and then a seven day cruise through the Carribean including swimming with the sea turtles and sailing on a yacht. Ten days with Robin’s extended family with no children. It was the perfect break from running our own business, finishing the writing program for Tutoring Club Corp., and having a baby. It took weeks to get the sitters arrainged for the kids, And just when everything was planned and we were ready to start packing our bags-- six week-old Joseph started coughing. Not the little baby clearing his throat kind of cough, the smoker coughing up a lung kind of cough. That harsh of a sound should never come from a body that small. We were due to leave on Thursday; Wednesday the doctor told us Joseph had RSV and if he couldn’t keep his lungs clear, we would have to go to the emergency room before his lungs collapsed.
So instead of the crashes of the waves, we heard the hum of the nebulizer as we gave Jonathan, who was also coughing< and Joseph vaporized steroids. We were the only family of the six in our ward who had babies with RSV who didn’t end up in the hospital. And we knew the only choice was to stay. But knowing it was the right thing to do and that our boys needed us didn’t make giving up the trip any easier. They say “sacrifice” means “to make sacred;” I don’t know what, or who, was made sacred by this experience, but I do know that not going on this trip marked a significant place in our lives. We weren’t a couple anymore. We are parents now and will have to give up much to gain...? Eternity