Greeting Cards Swap --Swap is over and closed!

[Mickey'sfriend]

I finished up my cards last night and they went postal this morning. I hope you all like them!

 

[TPCShauna]

Hi Ladies!

I just posted on the main board but wanted to update all y'all. DH's grandmother is having open heart surgery tomorrow. We are both really close to her and when the doctor advised family to be close, we dropped everything and headed out to Florida. We spent most of the day Saturday making arrangements for a pet sitter, flights and packing and took the red eye out Saturday night. We will be in Florida at least through the end of this week.

Unfortunately, I was not able to complete my cards before I left. I had planned on mailing today but left all of my stuff back home. I am really sorry about this but I won't be able to get the stuff finished and mailed until next week at the absolute earliest depending on when we come home.

I would hate for all y'all to wait for me so please do go ahead and swap out without my stuff. I'm really sorry. I've never flaked on a swap before but I just can't give you a timeline with this family issue going on. I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.

 

[MazdaUK]

That's not flaking, that's family Flaking is leaving everyone dangling with no idea where you are! ixiedust: everything goes OK

 

[ksjayhawks]

Shauna

I am so sorry to hear about your dh grandma. Hope the surgery goes well. Pm me when you get back and I will let you know the status of everything. We can wait a week or so if we need to.

Sending prayers and pixie dust for your grandma and all the family.

 

[ddavis860]

Sending PD for Grandma's recovery!

I agree with Mazda, that's not flaking, that's life. Thanks so much for taking the time to share what is going on! I'm good on waiting for a while...

 

[ddavis860]

Oh, I forgot to post....

I'm postal

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

It is family, not flaking as Mazda said.
I'm in no hurry to get these back, as long our very nice hostess will post photos so I can drool over the monitor instead of the cards for a while.

 

[ddavis860]

Pics would be great

 

[ksjayhawks]

JennyL and Vanyel--your cards are here! Great, great job!

I will gladly post pictures. I will work on that this weekend!

 

[clh2]

I agree with the other posters. Family first. Hope her surgery went well!
clh2

 

[TPCShauna]

Y'all are so sweet. The surgery did go well but she is still in ICU and we don't know when she will be downgraded. DH and I are staying at her house and handling the bulk of the packing so we have to drive 1 and a half hours each way every time we go visit her. Between packing, driving, visiting and worrying, I'm not sleeping more than a couple of hours at night. I wish I had brought my scrapping stuff with me because I sure could use something to do with my hands.

As it is, I've grabbed a set of her knitting needles and bought some yarn to work on knitting something for her. She taught me and I figure I'll show her that I really did learn and can use what she taught me.

This whole experience has been really difficult and emotional. For one, we had to leave our kitties with a pet sitter for an undetermined amount of time and I'm worried sick about them. They also help keep me calm so I'm really suffering from not having them to de-stress with when I'm so wound up. DH is really stressed by having to be around his family alot so we are dealing with that as well. It's just hard to be out of your element.

Thanks again for waiting. I'm really sorry but we will hopefully know something soon. I'll let y'all know.

 

[ksjayhawks]

ddavis and mickey's friend--your packages have arrived. Cards look wonderful!!

Shauna

Thanks for the update. I hope that the knitting will help to relax you--it can be so hard to be in an unfamiliar place, especially when there is a lot of stress. Take care of yourself and dh, too.

 

[ddavis860]

glad they got there OK!!

 

[vanyel]

Glad the cards got there ok.

Shauna,

So sorry to hear about your Grandmother. I hope things continue to progress. I totally understand how your kitties keep you calm - I feel that way about my puppies. Take care.

Cathy

 

[Mickey'sfriend]

Glad to hear my cards made it on time and you liked them!

Shauna - Prayers for healing for your family.

 

[TPCShauna]

Grandma is being moved to a regular floor tomorrow morning and we are flying home Tuesday afternoon.

I know I won't be able to do any scrapping until next weekend because I'll be catching up at work. To be honest, it would be a weight off my shoulders if y'all decided to swap out without me. As much as I hate to flake on this swap, all of this turmoil and stress has me exhausted and now I have to go home, get caught up and then fly out again on the 17th.

If y'all really want to wait, I can try to finish next week and then mail around the 12th. Just let me know.

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

I understand why you would like to drop out. The extra stress just isn't necessary right now. Really, it's not like we can't use two of our own in this swap. We just have to remember to not send that card to the same person twice.

 

[MazdaUK]

I am totally OK with getting any spares back if Shauna feels this is one straw too many for the camel's back. I can well imagine sticking bits of paper onto cards is not top of her list at the moment

 

[ddavis860]

Shauna, really, you are not being a flake... to me a flake is someone that disappears, no communication, just poof gone. (Sometimes they end up on another site, fine and well...but I digress...and that's a different swap)

I don't have any prob with getting doubles back on my cards. Take care of yourself. Swaps are supposed to be fun, and this is adding WAY too much stress!!!

 

[vanyel]

Shauna,

I wouldn't worry about this swap at all - you've had more important things on your mind and this is just adding to your stress. My vote is we let you off the hook and you quit worrying about "flaking". In the grand scheme of things, this isn't near as important as your family and your sanity.

Cathy