Well, I've been keeping myself busy. Not that I have much choice in that department. lol The kids always keep me on my toes.
For myself, though, I have a hobby that I am passionate about. I do digital scrapbooking. I love working with Adobe Photoshop. I have a couple of online galleries and my work has been published in several scrapbooking e-zines and one book. I'm part of a couple of design teams. I do a lot of photography. In fact, I just finished my oldest son's baseball portraits (I don't like the school's hired photographers work as much as my own. lol)
I'm a photojournalist at heart so while I'm a stay at home mom, I use that talent/passion to document our family's memories, history, every-day happenings, letters to my children for different things, etc. Also, I document major events/achievements in my husband's military career & even have an album dedicated to that for him. I even had a font made out of my own handwriting so that their albums will feel more personal.
Plus, I often use digital designing as art therapy. Like when my son was stillborn, it was very hard to keep going on and to figure out how to process all of the emotions. So, I played around in photoshop...with color, imagery, journaling, etc.....whatever I needed to do to express the agony in my heart.
I also blog a lot. I love to write and it provides a great outlet plus a place to showcase the photos I take of the kids (for our extended family out of state). I don't really have a lot of time to do much for myself, not to mention that I have very limited funds. I do have coffee at my neighbor's a few times a week which is great for me to get out of my house and be with someone whose company I enjoy. :-) I love flowers and gardening but that hasn't been in the budget for awhile.
So that's about it for what I do for myself....for now. :-) I have to be careful with the designing, though, because it is VERY addicting. I enjoy it so much that I could be on the laptop for hours if I didn't discipline myself.
