Christina

Hey, it's Christina. I did type out a nice page for the original memory book, but I don't really remember what all I said. Unfortuneately, I don't have the time right now to type out anything new (very busy candy making and cooking for customers WOO HOO!), so you can just write whatever you want or just use my block or whatever ya'll want to do (whatever is easiest for you to do). For the AR Quilt

Laura D.

Laura D. My quilt block is designed after my AR avatar- a coffee cup.  I have had other avatars but always found that one the most fitting for a couple of reasons.  I work at a coffee shop for one.  Also, I tend to get onto AR during coffee breaks throughout my day when I have a moment to myself. A little bit about me: I’m 27 years old and have been married for three and half years.  I first became an AR member in March of 2007.  My husband and I lost over 100 pounds between the two of us and I became interested in healthy baking.  I love sweets so I went looking for a website for recipes of breakfast goodies that I could modify to be low calorie breakfasts.  I found AR and fell in love with it. My husband is in medical school.  During his first couple years of school he would cook dinners for us.  He would cook, I would bake.  However, when he started his third year he was spending 60 or more hours a week at the hospital and it became up to me to cook dinner for us.  I had to learn to menu plan and make our meals.    I had a lot of “firsts” that everyone helped me with- my first time cooking soup, my first layer cake, my first whole chicken. During this time I also found myself unemployed because we moved yet again to a new city- it was the second time in three years.  I couldn’t find a job and I was very depressed.  I ended up on AR a lot during this time- the people there really helped me through.  I joined the shrinking chatterers for a time and became familiar with all the AR regulars. Nowadays I’m a chronic OT poster.  I sometimes need kitchen help but most of the time I just come on to chat or ask questions about laundry, cleaning, dogs, or some other such thing while having my cup of coffee or drink of water.   I also love it because I almost always find a new recipe to save to my box when I go there which really helps when it comes time to meal plan.  I’m just happy to have found such a wonderful online community

Sharyl 14

Hopefully, these are pics of my Daughters (bro_hoe-928) and mines (Sharyl4) book pages and quilt blocks.