celebrating living life!

i just love scrapbooking! i think what i love most about it is the community! i have met the most wonderful, sweet, inspirational, motivating, encouraging and moving people... many of whom have become some of my closest friends. some i have never even met in person... we have only exchanged email, chat and skype, but i can't even remember my life when they were not a part of it!! 

i was recently visiting becky higgins blog on my daily blog stops and the post for the day was '12 videos of Christmas: No. 9' and i have to say... this video really rocked me to the very core of my soul!  the message behind it, the celebration of life, jenny's high spirit... it is so inspirational and joyful!!! the more i thought about her video and how it just makes you 'feel good', i really felt the calling to share it with you!  i wrote jenny and asked her if it would be ok and i was thrilled to receive her answer of 'yes'!!  she was so kind, sweet and humble!! jenny's story is amazing as she is a CANcer survivor!!  the fight against cancer is one that is near and dear to me... as i have lost several family members to the disease, along with watching my best friend of 37 years fight it!!  becky too is a CANcer survivor!! 

i have fallen in love with jenny's blog and it is now one of my daily blog stops!  her look on life is so exultant!!  what an amazing person she is and what an amazing husband and family she has!!  even though i don't really know jenny, i could not be more happier for her and her celebration of life!  i know what she has been through to get to this point in her life (as i was with becky each step of the way and still am on each follow up visit)! i look forward to getting to know jenny in the coming year and watching and supporting her as she lives her 'life list'!!  what a jubilant inspiration she is!!!

jenny... one question for you... what is that yummy treat you are eating??  it looks simply divine!!

a big big thank you to jenny for letting me share her video and the story of her 'living life'.  you are amazing!!!

i sure hope you will watch the video and stop by her blog... you will be glad you did!!

Jenny Meyerson (click here to visit her blog)

inspiration behind this video...

Jeff - her husband writes this (from Becky Higgins blog)

Seven years ago when my wife was 30 years old, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Our kids were 6, 2, and 1 at the time so needless to say it was a very scary time. After a double mastectomy and 6 months of aggressive chemotherapy, she was declared cancer free by her oncologist. The ordeal had a profound effect on how Jenny looked at life. When she was going through treatment, she was challenged by a fellow patient to write down everything she wanted to do in life and “go for it”. He wasn’t going to survive and he had regrets about putting things off and not doing things because they seemed too crazy. 

  

The treatment took a lot out of us emotionally and financially and 6 years went by until Jenny came to me early this year and said that she wanted to start a blog to document completing things that she had on her bucket list (we call it her life list). So, for Mother’s Day I had jennymeyerson.com designed and hosted and off she went.

  

Jenny is a little crazy and a nerd (in a good way) and one of her list items was to dance with strangers in front of the monuments in Washington DC. This summer we went to her 20th high school reunion in Virginia and spent the week touring DC and taking video. I was so embarrassed about asking strangers to dance that I would walk about 100 yards behind Jenny with the camera while she asked people to dance. To my surprise, people loved it. Eventually, she even got me to roll down the hill in front of the Washington Monument and to dance with her in front of the Lincoln Center. 

  

i also wanted to share a page with you that i did in celebration of becky's fight against CANcer!!