Step One . . . .
I have a final list of New Year's resolutions.
One of my big ones is to finish Eli's baby album (I like saying "finish", it makes it sound more possible even though I barely started). Last night I took my first step. I took out all of his first year photos, gathered all of the papers and stickers, and brought them to my new "crafting area" - my closet. If it is all in my way maybe I'll get to it faster. My next step is buying a ton of adhesive of some sort to stick all of the pictures, "enhancement" papers, and journaling papers down. Once I have that key ingredient, I should be set to go.
It doesn't help that in Eli's first year of life we went home for Christmas, Matt deployed, I took him to Washington for Easter, we took a vacation to Yellowstone, and hung out in California for a good bit of the summer. In the few months following his birthday he escorted me and my gal pals to DC for a weekend and a few weeks later we welcomed Matt home from Iraq. That is a lot of big things in just a matter of 15 months.
I'm also planning to make an album for Gabriel's first year. That one should be easy because I am going to do a shutterfly album for him, however I am not allowing myself to start on his until I finish Eli's. I have just over 11 months to accomplish these two goals . . . along with too many others.
One of my big ones is to finish Eli's baby album (I like saying "finish", it makes it sound more possible even though I barely started). Last night I took my first step. I took out all of his first year photos, gathered all of the papers and stickers, and brought them to my new "crafting area" - my closet. If it is all in my way maybe I'll get to it faster. My next step is buying a ton of adhesive of some sort to stick all of the pictures, "enhancement" papers, and journaling papers down. Once I have that key ingredient, I should be set to go.
It doesn't help that in Eli's first year of life we went home for Christmas, Matt deployed, I took him to Washington for Easter, we took a vacation to Yellowstone, and hung out in California for a good bit of the summer. In the few months following his birthday he escorted me and my gal pals to DC for a weekend and a few weeks later we welcomed Matt home from Iraq. That is a lot of big things in just a matter of 15 months.
I'm also planning to make an album for Gabriel's first year. That one should be easy because I am going to do a shutterfly album for him, however I am not allowing myself to start on his until I finish Eli's. I have just over 11 months to accomplish these two goals . . . along with too many others.
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