Blog Stalking
I read this post some time ago and really really connected with it.
I have been alternating between saying hi to this girl and/or just leaving a comment but it is so long at this time I worry that she won't see it.
When she talks about her mom she posts these amazing scanned old photos. I want to get a scanner and do that and/or I should just take some photos of photos. Yeah that would be easier.
I also have been secretly following a mutual friend's blog for sometime. She first had a blog called Watch Me Turn 30 which she took a photo a day until her birthday. She is now pregnant and counting down with photos and stories as well. She lost her mother in her 20s.
The touching way in which she remembers her in various posts always always almost makes me cry. I can relate to these feelings and my mom is still around. Granted she is house bound and declining and blah blah...I just connect with them..
I am debating on sending an email to either of these ladies and let them know they have touched me but I am also scared of sounding like a stalker insane person. I mean for Holly, I should just say hi I was inspired by your previous blog and kind of took the name and went with it.
Both of them inspire me to be strong in dealing with my mom's lung cancer. I hope I can deal with it in the creative ways that they have. I don't have many actual close friends in the city that have delt with something like this and it reassures me to see how well these ladies have dealt with it.
The picture posted below is from Thanksgiving two years ago. I look at it and think about how we didn't know at that time that the sickness my mom was feeling wasn't a flu or a bug - it was cancer that was taking over her body. We all look so young. I feel like I have aged at least 10 years in the past time. My mom is still with me and fighting the good fight. In the past few weeks hospice has started to come three times a week to help her shower and check in with her. Last week oxygen was placed in our home. I really am sure she will make it thru the holidays...
I have been alternating between saying hi to this girl and/or just leaving a comment but it is so long at this time I worry that she won't see it.
When she talks about her mom she posts these amazing scanned old photos. I want to get a scanner and do that and/or I should just take some photos of photos. Yeah that would be easier.
I also have been secretly following a mutual friend's blog for sometime. She first had a blog called Watch Me Turn 30 which she took a photo a day until her birthday. She is now pregnant and counting down with photos and stories as well. She lost her mother in her 20s.
The touching way in which she remembers her in various posts always always almost makes me cry. I can relate to these feelings and my mom is still around. Granted she is house bound and declining and blah blah...I just connect with them..
I am debating on sending an email to either of these ladies and let them know they have touched me but I am also scared of sounding like a stalker insane person. I mean for Holly, I should just say hi I was inspired by your previous blog and kind of took the name and went with it.
Both of them inspire me to be strong in dealing with my mom's lung cancer. I hope I can deal with it in the creative ways that they have. I don't have many actual close friends in the city that have delt with something like this and it reassures me to see how well these ladies have dealt with it.
The picture posted below is from Thanksgiving two years ago. I look at it and think about how we didn't know at that time that the sickness my mom was feeling wasn't a flu or a bug - it was cancer that was taking over her body. We all look so young. I feel like I have aged at least 10 years in the past time. My mom is still with me and fighting the good fight. In the past few weeks hospice has started to come three times a week to help her shower and check in with her. Last week oxygen was placed in our home. I really am sure she will make it thru the holidays...
posted by Steph at 11:49 AM
3 Comments:
I don't have time here at the office to look at the other blogs but I'm intrigued, they sound beautiful.
One piece of advice - taking pics of pics is harder than it looks. There's a glare issue. We should go in together on a scanner or something. I have boxes and boxes of pics from days gone by that I'd really like to scan (some very cute ones of a young Steph), too.
I love the picture here, you're right, you do all look so young. She never looks any different to me..until I look at pictures from before.
I think some changes are good. Her hair now brings out her cheekbones and makes her look truly fab. Before she was too worried about the hair. She agrees with me on this..
Yeah, it's not necessarily bad it's just that I think I've convinced myself on some level that "she's always looked like this" and I don't even remember the old hair and stuff like that. Which makes it nice to see the old pictures because I do think she still looks pretty and you're right about the cheekbones but it's nice to remember everything too.
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