April 2026 – Scarlett79

April 15, 2026April 18, 2026

AtoZ Blogging Challenge ‘ J ‘

I don’t know what happened, but I must of lost the first draft I had on the letter ‘ j ‘ … So many balls in the air, I’ve fallen be hind with the challenge but I’m going to do my best to get caught up.

Today I’m going to continue on with the letter ‘ J ‘ … s howcasing the plethora of journal’s that I have. I love to journal write, archive history, weather journal, yadayadayada. I find peace when I put pen to paper.

Here’s a look at what I call the, “Mother Ship” of my journal’s even though she’s really my planner. I keep everything in here….The daily tasks, Financial’s, Family Facts, Appointments, Menu’s, Seasonal Tasks, yadayadayada. I think you get the picture. Say hello to Ms. Serena…

This is not my first daily planner. I got introduced to my 1st daily planner by a very special person in my life, but that has since gone in my rear view mirror. I am very thankful though for being introduced to planner’s and writing b/c it has been the focus of my world of a very long time.

As I mentioned before, I have a plethora of journal’s … I use them every day at least once.

The small one to the left is one of my fav’s !! I keep a lot of very cool memories is this one along with emephera…

My “10 Year Journal” Is where I keep track of the weather over a period of time, and happenings.

Next I have my, “Made From Scratch” … Which is my Cookbook that I’m trying to write…It also dovetails w/my need to use my scrapbooking skills…

Finally, there is my, “Common Place Book“… This is where I record many of my prayer’s, meaningful sayings…

I hope you have enjoyed my journals…They are my Happy Place and whenever I’m down I turn to these journals and write something in them and it lifts me up. Either that or I just go shopping for a new one 😉 …Happy Blogging to all my fellow AtoZ Blogger’s…Blessings from Scarlet

April 12, 2026April 15, 2026

AtoZ Blogging Challenge

Rascal Flats/My Wish

This is for ALL my kids…Today is the Letter ‘ I ‘ …

I will always believe in you,

I wil love you times a million.

I will always want to know how you’re doing.

I will always look for hope in your situations.

I will always want to hang out with you.

I will always cheer for you the loudest.

I will always be here for you.

I will always pray for you.

I will always…because I’m your mom !!!

April 12, 2026April 15, 2026

All the things !!!

What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness?

Waking up in my beautiful home !!!!
My first cup of coffee.
Seeing my husband and giving him a kiss, knowing I’m loved … (not necessarily in the right order) and hugs from our ms. Rosie ( my Chicago brown dog). 🐕. That’s a real breed !!!!
Working and planning my day w/Ms. Serena ✔️✔️. She’s my day planner 🤗🤗
Journaling the weather in my 10 year journal ☔️

April 11, 2026April 12, 2026

AtoZ Blogging Challenge ‘ H ‘…

So glad it’s the weekend, hoping I will be able to catch up with my Scarlet Story’s…Husband has been on the DL, that’s the Disabled List in Baseball terminology so it’s been a stressful week, Hospital, procedures, hoping & praying for the best of outcomes. On top of that our electricity has been sketchy b/c of all the storms. No A/C until today…Good thing too b/c it’s suppose to get hot and stormy.

The letter’s I have missed our ‘ H ‘, ‘ I ‘ and ‘ G ‘… I will try to catch up with those prompts.. Today I’m going to start with the letter, ‘ H ‘… I’ve been thinking about it for awhile and of course it has to “(H)ockey” .

Having all those boys around all of my life, believe me I know every season, sport, player’s, yadayadayada. Right now all the boys (including the husband) are busy playing fantasy baseball whatever that is. I can remember when our Connor was just a lil guy walking around the house saying, “Isn’t there a ballgame on or something.” It was inbetween basketball and baseball after the NCAA. I think this is the 1st year I didn’t make a bracket. Being honest, Connie always made my bracket anyways…That was sweet of him, letting me be a part of their sports world.

My love for Hockey started back in I think 2016…We were in Minnesota watching the Chicago Blackhawks in the playoffs and when they won, Connor picked me up and threw me on the bed. From that moment on, I was hooked. So many great memories…

I’m going to start with Jim Cornelison sing the National Anthem…You will never hear anyone sing this better than he does. Perfection !!!

They started their run on winning the 3 Stanley Cups in 2010, Philadelphia Flyers, 2013 , Boston Bruins i.e. game referred to as 17 seconds and 2015, Tampa Bay Lighting…So exciting. You must watch the video…So much fun and they won the Cup in that game !!! You must watch the video below. An amazing finish to the season !!! ” 17 Seconds ” Bam!!!

https://youtu.be/YXx6_7fpnKM?si=h7uXiRHbUUFuLBUp

We’ve traveled all over as a family to hockey games in Cinncinati, The Winter Classic in D.C. on New Year’s Day, so much fun making all those memories w/the boys and their wives !!! Different cities, hotels, all the things 🙂 … Need to have some more music for the games

I needed to add this one !!! Love my Blackhawk’s. That team was unstoppable!!! This one’s for you Connor !!!!!

April 9, 2026April 9, 2026

https://elan-creations.me/2026/04/09/atoz-blogging-challengeg/

April 9, 2026April 12, 2026

Atoz Blogging Challenge’G’

I really need to add, “Our Song” 😉 …

Happy Thursday Blogger’s. Hope we are all doing well with the challenge!!! This is one of my favorite challenges…

Today will be all about my adorable grandbabies. We have been so blessed with 9 healthy lil ones. 5 boys and 4 girls with another one on the way.

We were blessed with 5 children, 4 boys and our middle one, the daughter!!! So happy I had at least one girl. As I’m the youngest of 4 girls, no brothers it’s been quite a journey. My mom was the only girl with 7 brothers OMG 😱!!! Her mom was the oldest of 6 sisters. So it’s been a flip/flop generational line.

I’ll post pics of my lil darling grandbabies ♥️♥️

I have the most beautiful grandbabies in the world and that’s the truth !!! 💯💯

April 8, 2026April 8, 2026

AtoZ Blogging Challenge ‘ F ‘

This could be for, ‘ (F)amily or #frainsthename or (F)riends ‘ that are family. I’m thinking it’s all of the above…

Let’s go back to where it all started.

We’re Married/Sadie, Sadie My ***fav*** ***of all the wedding*** **pics!!!**

This is the video our youngest made for us for our 45th anniversary…

https://videos.files.wordpress.com/6xChRDt8/mom-and-dad45th-anniversary.mov

47 years later … Outer Banks

Yes I know there’s 4 kids (we had 5), but our 2nd son, “Sean Patrick” is in heaven watching over us all. Making sure we get there with him and of course there’s always that one kid (our oldest) who has his own agenda and so I really don’t have much more to say about him except too much drama and disrespect !!! We’re the mom and dad and we don’t have to take that ever !!! That is why this is the most you’ll seen of him on my blog. So I’ve purposely let him go b/c not really that interested in what he’s doing…

One final pic of the family that I came from…Irish/Italian Catholic and these are just some of the cousins b/c some weren’t even born yet 😉 …

This was the first group and from the looks of how old I was it was probably 1964…I’m down in front on the left w/my 3 other sisters…Mary had her head turned and Beth (Liz) was in the green dress. I’m right next to her, kay was on the outside.

This one the later one in the early 70’s. I’m in the middle of(Red, White & Blue shirt) with pig tails. That was grandmama Fannie and Grandpapa Harry…She had 7 boys and 1 girl, my mom. Family is everything and we still get together and many of my cousins are like sisters to me…Love and Blessings to this bunch…We had a blast growing up at grandmama’s in the the summer and our family reunions were a blast ….

I need to add one more pic…They’re our best friends. They got married a week before us and we were neighbors (that’s how we met). Scott was in dental school and now our family dentist for the last 48 years and me and Cheryl had all our babies together !!! We are together forever !!!

Friends for life/Connor & Melissa’s Wedding

April 7, 2026April 7, 2026

Good Tuesday Morning AtoZ Challenger’s

Today I will be posting paintings from our Store …

He really is quite talented and can really paint anything he has a mind too. He also does contracted work, if anyone is interested in that. Just msg me if you’re interested. Blessings on your day …

Enjoy the paintings….

April 6, 2026April 6, 2026

AtoZ Blogging Challenge ‘ C ‘

I chose the picture Jesus (C)Christ with the crown of thorns b/c that was the one he was working on during lent…I have a couple more that I like better than that one.

The husband is an artist, not his day job…B/C a starving artist is a real thing and we are way past that point. He told me to be famous when you are an artist, death usually has to happen first so I think I’m happy just the way things are.

I’m the writer of the family and he’s the artist. He sells commercial title insurance for his day job. We’ve been together going on 50 years, 47 of them married. It wasn’t til Covid happened that I realized what a huge talent he had with painting and drawing. When we were raising our family, when it came to art things for the kiddos during their school years that was his job. Writing of course was my strong suit. It worked out well.

I might as well throw in a couple of pictures he has been working on during this Lenten Season…Haven’t quite found the best venue for selling them on, that too is in the works.

I’ll put up a couple of his Masterpiece works, as he really is quite talented !!!

It you look in the middle painting, he put himself in as one of the attendees…He’s the one with his hands folded 🙂 …

This is one of my favorite compilations … It’s his band ‘Elan’ which means, “With Eagerness of Spirit…”

Trust me, these are just a few of his paintings. He’s really an amazing Artist….

April 5, 2026April 5, 2026

AtoZ Blogging Challenge…

This morning woke up to half a house w/o electricity OMG !!! I had to find an outlet that worked for my coffee. Scarlett has to have her coffee first before anything. I found an outlet that worked and called right away on the electricity. It’s been all the stormy weather and rain that did it. Long story short, it’s fixed…Thank you so much I could get my Easter dinner done.

Scarlet’s story for today is my moment in time that will forever be etched in my heart. I always told my story to the kids that when my story was finished here on earth, I hope I would be met by Patrick Swayze and he would be dancing with me for the song, “Time of my Life.”

If you have followed my blog, then you know all about all of the professional dancer’s that are my boys. Joffrey Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Richmond Ballet yadayadayada… My 3rd son, Matthew got married to Hannah (both professional dancer’s). At his wedding he told me we were dancing the mother/son dance to, “A Simple Man” by Leonard Skinner. So the night before the wedding I went on line and listened to the song so I would have some idea of how the dance would go.

Below I’m just going to post the link of how the dance went. It was a memorable moment, one that I will never forget!!!!! Enjoy

Now that was the time of my life and a son who truly knows his mom and loves her to the moon. He is just the best dancer and totally confident and led me through the entire dance. I loved the ending the best. Thank you Matthew, you gave your mom a gift that I will always remember!!!!