it was on April No. 11

Hi everyone it's Friday that means a new palette is unvealed at CSI and it's also April the month my first child was born.  Having a baby is a life changing experience so I have chosen to use the sketch and theme of OUAS

So here's my page

So here's my page

this boy will be 18 years old in a few days, but he wasn't this big or handsome, in fact he weighted 2.4 #'s was premature and spent a whole month on NICU.  He was actually released from the hospital on Sunday May 12, 1996 as a Mother's Day present from the Doctors and nurses of the hospital who thought he was better with me than there.

When I first saw the sketch I thought it would be perfect to use the old and the new, but in the end I chose to put it in an envelope with some notes for him

I also had this great overlay by MME and it reminded me of the days I used to spend in front of his incubator telling me he was going to be big one day...

For  my evidence I used

cogs/gears, circles, metals, ransom style lettering, arrows and numbers

For my testimony I used the random generator word it was hello, so there's the hello to being a new mom!

So here's the journaling 

4*11*1996

I knew I was strong but nothing prepared for me for this.  Leaving empty handed after delivery was an unspeakable pain because it came from the heart. {as you know there are no remedies to cure that}

I would walk a couple of miles everyday back and forth to the hospital, healing from an emergency C section I wouldn't even flinch.  Because at the end of those long walks you were there waiting for me, hooked up to all kinds of tubes and machines...

At night I couldn't stay with you, they wouldn't allow it , knowing you needed nourishment I would milk myself at the odd hours of the night.  We had no money for  a machine, not even rented, there was no money for another car, there wasn't even a home for you to come to, they were tough times...

Now you turn 18, what a big milestone and how life works.

You are such a good boy 

and you my son

have changed my life!

happy birthday Diego I love you forever!

Mami

Here's the sketch I used

and here's the color palette