Christy Essen
About Me
thanks to a beautiful blessing and surprise that made my day,(11/4/2015)(just in time for my birthday too!)i now have a year subscription to this lovely site, and hope to learn so much about digital scrap booking. i have so many ideas I'd like to share as well, soon as i learn some basics! thank you so much. this means the world to me!
I'm a fairly new singled (2014) mom of 4 ages 10-22. Lil man is the only one at home.
and new HiSet graduate (3/2015) and now volunteer tutor the classes twice a week to help others achieve the same satisfaction and joy i have earning my high school equivalent diploma, as well as help improve the class, that i took the first one of. I have already made a wonderful impact and even implementing changes which is a great accomplishment for me with my social anxiety issues.
I am on my 3rd year with an autoimmune liver disease that shattered and renewed my life at the same time, it stole so much of me, my energy and the reason my husband left us.(2013~9months after only having days to live) But at the same time it renewed my life gave me an understanding on why i always felt bad. being diagnosed with something finally gave the ah-ha moment that "they were wrong" all wrong, it wasn't all in my head, and the pain was not an excuse!.
and the husband leaving well that was a blessing too. he couldn't handle me at my worst, he never deserved me when i was at my best.
I've lost a 100lbs in the last year, and am finding my creativeness again. i made amazing scrapbook pages of my daughter when she was a baby, but had to give it up because i couldn't create and be a mom and wife. Happy to be back in the craft world, but find it hard to catch up with all the technology that's been added to the paper craft world.