December Daily :: Day 7

Simple day, simple layout. My favorite.

Journaling reads: Wednesdays are often a day for us to play catch-up around the house, and run errands. Even during Christmastime, these things must get done. Today, Mommy had to work in the morning but then after lunch we bundled up and headed to get allergy shots, the library and the post office. You were so excited to mail the card you made for Hannah!



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December Daily :: Day 6

I'm getting into the groove of this project. Here's another simple layout that I love. I had to alter this from the original because of the size of the photo. But all's well that ends well.


Journaling reads: St. Nick stopped by last night to leave some treats in your boot. You were so excited that you couldn't sleep. You kept coming out to check if he had come, but I warned you that he might pass you by if you weren't asleep. Luckily that didn't happen.


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December Daily :: Day 5

Woo hoo! Nothing like finishing a couple pages before the day is even done. It helps when you decide not to take any photos. I really love this layout but there are only so many things you can actually do with it. This was a story I really wanted to document because it's a new tradition, and one that Sean is really loving. So I knew from the start that I wanted to use this template for this story.

Easy peasy.

Journaling reads: Every day during advent you get to pick a Christmas movie out of the big bucket to watch that day. It’s one of the many different countdown activities we have going on in our house this month. You LOVE it! So far you have watched the Grinch, Muppets, Thomas, Frosty and Olivia. And it’s nice for Mommy to have a break to get some work done. Soon enough things will slow down around here, and we’ll have time to PLAY!


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December Daily :: Day 4

The goods news is I remembered to bring my camera with me to Barnes & Noble. The bad news is it didn't have a CF card. UGH!! I can't tell you how many times I have done this. Too many to count. So I resorted to using my cell phone camera which is lousy. I used an Orton effect in Photoshop, but not sure it's going to do the trick. On the screen it doesn't look so bad, but I'm afraid when it's printed the resolution will be noticeable stinky. Bummer.

Eh... c'est la vie, right? The memory was captured. Day 4 complete.

Journaling reads: Last year we started a tradition of going to Barnes and Noble and picking out a new Christmas book. This was your advent activity today, so we went after church tonight. Your memory is just like Daddy’s because you remembered from last year that they have a Thomas train table set up, and you beelined it straight there. We literally had to pull you away from those trains in order to look at the books. But you love to read too, so it wasn’t too much of a struggle. You were trying to decide on either The Gingerbread Pirates or Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Not a big surprise that the pirates won! You loved reading this book tonight before bed, and it’s a nice addition to your Christmas books.

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December Daily :: Day 3

Yesterday was chock full of many different things, but I focused on just one story to document. Trimming the Christmas tree! Believe it or not, we still have more to do today since the big tree wasn't ready yet. Jeff had to spend most of the day replacing bulbs. So Sean and I worked on decorating the tree in the living room. He had the BEST time ever. And he's now old enough that I don't have to worry about the ornaments too much, and we finished super fast!

I used the template I originally created for day 3 (shocker!), and while the photos are kind of small for my liking I generally like the page for its simplicity.


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December Daily :: Day 2

I went simple today, using one of my photos as the background for the page. I kind of love it. Not totally, but you can convince me. Wink. Wink.

Journaling reads: We woke up to the season’s very first snowfall this morning. You really wanted to make snow angels, but it will have to wait until we get more snow! In the afternoon we traveled to Arlington Heights to meet Aunt Kari and Hannah at the Lamb’s Farm craft show. You received five dollars in your advent bucket this morning, and wanted to buy everything you saw. “I love it, Mommy!” You decided on a jingle snowman ornament.

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December Daily :: Day 1

Day 1 is complete. I have to be honest and tell you I'm not in love with it. I'm yearning for my simple approach from last year when I used one photo, told one story, and kept it super simple.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to change this. Stay tuned.

Edited: I determined the bright green ribbons were a little too much for me. I deleted them and enlarged the photos some. I like it much, much better. Whew! Crisis averted.




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