Our task today was to find an ad in a magazine and use it as inspiration for a layout. I found an ad in Real Simple for almonds and borrowed it's basic design.
I love lists, but this was hard for me. In some ways I'm not too surprised by my life. (Am I boring?!) lol! Maybe I just haven't thought about it enough. I think a lot of the things that surprise me are negative things, or negative type things and I didn't want this layout to be a total downer so I was searching for things that I was pleasantly surprised by. At any rate, this is life right now as I know it.
Journaling reads:
1. I live in a really small town, I never planned on it and it still feels a little strange to me. But I’ll be sad when we do move on.
2. Things change - I was super shy growing up, and I’ve kind of out grown that. And at this point I actually like meeting new people and I can phone the library -all by myself!
3. Things don’t change - I still like my down time and need my own space in order to be happy. Even from my husband and my kids who I dearly love. I really cherish the hour or so I have all to myself when they are all in bed.
4. You never know where life will take you - I’ve nurtured my talents and developed my photography skills to the point that I have a family photography business.
4. My house is quite cluttered and while in many ways I’m pretty organized in others I can’t get a handle on all the stuff a family of five collects.
5. I will probably only have three kids. I always planned on more, but I’m coming to terms with it, slowly.
6. I had to get braces again! Why oh why didn’t I faithfully wear that retainer!
7. One of my greatest joys is trying different kinds of food -Darrel and I love Vietnamese, Indian, Japanese, you name it, we are pretty much game to try anything.
8. How fast time is flying by. Jack is six. That is hard to believe.
9. I love listening to CBC radio 1 -the talk programs! I used to hate those. I think this is partly Darrel’s influence. When we got married we fell into the habit of listening to Definitely Not The Opera (DNTO) on Saturdays. Living out here I drive a lot to get groceries, run errands etc. and it’s usually clean enough to listen with the kids in the vehicle and I feel like it nurtures my brain.
10. How much I struggle with motherhood. Am I doing it right? Where’s the joy amidst the day to day chaos? The loneliness of being so far from extended family. Trying to lighten up. The phots are from a particularly hard day and I needed to change the mood so I took the kids into our room and we started doing funny pictures in front of the mirror. I need to do more stuff like that to change direction when we are all sick of each other -because it worked! We had a blast and then we could move on and be pleasant.
Fun things happening around here tomorrow. Eric has a field trip and I am going to grout the bathroom tile. Hooray! The end is in sight. Only 2 or 3 more weekends. (which means now that I've jinxed it, it will take six at least.)
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Oooh, there are so many things from your list we need to talk about! (Like, I can't figure out why it's called Definitely Not the Opera...) The entire layout is stunning - can I copy it? So clever!
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