Today, I have a very special story to tell.

Last night, I had a dream about my late mother. She visited me in my dreams, and I was so happy to see her. I told her that I wanted her to give me more signs of life, that I would recognize them, and we agreed that she would visit me more often. This morning, I woke up and the Clouseau song, “Afscheid van een vriend” (Farewell to a friend), was playing in my head. That’s the song that always reminds me of my late dog Shitan, whom I mourned for a long time. Normally I feel sad when I hear that song, but not today, actually I felt very cheerful, and I started the morning singing.

I’m slowly getting back into scrapbooking and had created a new digital template yesterday. A sample still needed to be made, and I decided to do it now. I thought of a page with recent photos of one of my pets. I browsed through my pet folder on the computer. The 2024 folder was still empty (I know, I am a little bit behind), so I went to the 2023 folder. I scrolled through the photos and came across photos of my mother with Loeki, my little dog.
Actually, these photos belong in the family folder, but for some unknown reason I had mistakenly placed them in this folder.
The photos were taken in the nursing home, about a month before my mother died, and they are the last photos of her. The memories of what followed that period came back, it all seems so recent.
I was not that sad, rather in a warm nostalgic mood, and I decided to use these photos for my sample page.

I scrolled through my supply of digital papers looking for something with purple (from my mother’s sweater) and brown/beige (from Loeki) to fill the the template.
After everything was filled in, I wanted to save the page with a reference to the kit used for the digital papers. I looked up the name, and guess what? The kit is called “Comme si c’etait hier” – as if it were yesterday.

If those aren’t signs from above! It’s beautiful how everything comes together:
– The dream about my mother with the promise to visit more often
– The song that reminded me of my deceased dog, putting me in a nostalgic mood
– Because of this, I want to work with photos of my pets
– The photos of my mother that ended up in the wrong folder
– The feeling that it all happened just recently when I look at her photos
– Unconsciously choosing the kit “Comme si c’était hier” – as if it were yesterday, to use

I was so overwhelmed, what a special morning I was allowed to experience!

I really wanted to share this story with you, it overwhelmed me so much, but at the same time gave me so much comfort.

Out of gratitude and because you took the time to read this whole story, I’ve decided to make this template available to you.
Send an email to me asking for the link for S052, and I’ll send it to you. And who knows, maybe you’ll have such a beautiful coincidence too.

But wait, that’s not all!
Do you also have such a special story full of coincidences while scrapbooking? Let me know, I’m curious and would love to hear it! So send me your special story, possibly accompanied by the scrapbook page, and as a thank you for sharing your story with me, you’ll get a few free templates from my shop on top of that.

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