This One Was Tough

I cannot tell you how difficult it was to choose today’s Layout of the Week. In fact, it has literally taken me all day to tackle this post and I am finally pulling it together just a few minutes before midnight.

Not because I didn’t have several pages to choose from … because I did.

And not because the choices were not worthy … because they definitely are.

This week’s choice was especially difficult because our topic for the week was such a tough one … “What are your biggest fears?”

Let me just say, I am extremely impressed with the brave scrappers who tackled this prompt. It is not easy to face our fears … and harder yet to put them in writing and then share them with the world.

Yet more than two dozen gals did exactly that.

And while scrapping our fears has proven to be quite a challenge, reading about them isn’t so easy, either. You really have to let yourself be vulnerable to share this kind of stuff … and reading it tends to make you realize just how alike we all are in this area.

When I finally managed to narrow down one page to share as our Layout of the Week, I chose this one by leeann77…

Weekly Challenge #9 Layout by leeann77

Why? Because Leeann does such an amazing job of summarizing the fears that seem to be universal among mothers … and throughout our gallery this week.

The fear of losing our children. The fear of losing our spouse, our parents, our loved ones. Leeann even had the courage to come right out and use that word that most of us pretty much danced around. Not only that, but I think she really hit this one on the head when she said… “I guess what scares me about admitting my fears, in writing, is that it will make them come true.”

Yet she still had the courage to write those fears down, scrap a page about it, and share it with the rest of us.

Congratulations to Leeann on having today’s Layout of the Week! She will receive 10 bonus points through our Real Deal Book Club Rewards Program. And a huge thanks to everyone who shared your pages for this challenge. If you haven’t done so already, I encourage you to brace yourself and take a peek in the Challenge Gallery. And while you’re there, I hope you’ll take a few minutes to thank these gals for sharing …

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