Hello friends! Fair warning...this post is going to be very "stream-of-consciousness".

You may have noticed that I have not done a 50 by Fifty post in a while. Well, that's because I haven't been following my 50 by Fifty plan for a while. From mid May to mid June is perhaps the busiest time in mine and John's year...Mother's Day, 5 family birthdays, a trip to Louisiana, Father's Day, and our anniversary. No excuses here, just providing a bit of context. I have not done too badly even without counting points, but in order to move forward, I simply must regroup and restart the plan...which is exactly what I am doing. I want to keep going - I can still do this - I don't have to let the "one-step-forward-two-steps-back" default mode rule my journey, as it has so many times in the past. I can look back on similar weight loss episodes in my life and see how they tend to fall apart around the 12th week or so. But I don't have to continue that trend....and I won't. SO, I'll adjust the graph at the top of the page tomorrow morning to reflect my "two-steps-back", and look forward with hope and renewed resolve to many more steps forward...

It's been just about a year since I launched my Just Bee 'n Me Digital Boutique at Aimee Asher. I started out pretty strong and produced six seasonal clipart collections, but I hit a wall after January and haven't produced a new kit since. Rather than list more excuses, I will simply say that it is summer time again, I have a lot of new visitors, so I think it's worth revisiting my early kits which have a summer-time theme...