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and here’s this week:
This week is all about the kids playing outside, with dad. And Jake’s little trip to the hospital. I also added a page for the physics show Jake and David went to.
See you next week! The Savor Project is a weekly project for 2013. You can see a detailed post on my goal and other details here. and here’s this week: This week is a spread.
I decided to do a day-in-the-life a few weeks ago. So I took photos, wrote it all up and then put it in my book as a two-pager. Here it is. Nathaniel at school and with his teacher. David sharing his favorite book with the class. Nathaniel playing at home. Family photo. Playing plants vs zombies. And learning to read. An ordinary day in our life. A perfect addition to my book. See you next week! The Savor Project is a weekly project for 2013. You can see a detailed post on my goal and other details here. and here’s this week:
This week is all about Home Depot and building our projects and doing some art with mommy. I loved all the photos so I didn’t want to pick and choose. Sometimes it’s just one or two stories and I am totally okay with that. See you next week! The Savor Project is a weekly project for 2013. You can see a detailed post on my goal and other details here. and here’s this week:
This week is all about our little trip to Tahoe. The kids learned to ice skate for the first time. We also went tubing, cross country skiing, and show-shoeing all for the first time. it was an awesome two days. See you next week! The Savor Project is a weekly project for 2013. You can see a detailed post on my goal and other details here. and here’s this week:
I talk about our the boys playing and studying. Then going exploring and building time machines while with grandparents and finally about David being star of the week. This week I added an extra insert which has David’s art on one side. (it has my coaching course completion diploma thing in the back)
See you next week! The Savor Project is a weekly project for 2013. You can see a detailed post on my goal and other details here. and here’s this week:
I talk about our celebration cupcakes, some activities we’ve done including the birthday, punching, and going to home depot and then two movies we saw. I am still loving the 8.5×11 size and single page format. love love love. Yet, I still haven’t found a way to fit my art but still thinking on it. See you next week! The Savor Project is a weekly project for 2013. You can see a detailed post on my goal and other details here. and here’s this week:
I talk about Nathaniel goofing around, playing Blokus with the kids, going to the Palo Alto Jr. Museum, origami yoda, and being published in the art journaling magazine. I have to admit I am loving the 8.5×11 size and single page format. love love love. I still haven’t found a way to fit my art but still thinking on it. See you next week! The Savor Project is a weekly project for 2013. You can see a detailed post on my goal and other details here. And here we go! Week One:
I talk about going to the San Francisco Zoo, Paddle boating, to the PLAY! center and building with magnets, playing with army men and seeing Life of Pi. So far, the 8.5×11 is working great. I haven’t found a way to fit my art yet but still thinking on it. See you next week! The Savor Project is a weekly project for 2013. You can see a detailed post on my goal and other details here. Since I am really tired tonight, I thought instead of writing a thoughts-related post, I could share my One Little Word assignment. This month’s assignment was all about setting intentions for the year. I spent a lot of time thinking about mine. here it is as a spread:
The intentions I set are: January – Quietly Present – take a break. ponder. walk, don’t run. take it slow and steady. be calm. don’t yell. be quieter. listen. Here’s page one bigger:
and here’s page two bigger:
In 2012, I did my own version of Project Life. I decided to use the pages to tell stories and the pockets as two-up (or one-up) mini scrappy layouts. I also included my weekly art in the pages. When I was trying to figure out my plans for 2013, I decided I no longer wanted to use the 12×12 albums and I definitely didn’t want to have to make two albums. So, I came up with the idea to use the baseball pocket pages in 8.5×11. I already have a ton of them and so it seemed like the best plan. My plan is to use one page a week. So a spread will be two weeks. Which should mean that at the end of the year, I’ve used 27 page protectors. Which should fit into one album. I am not sure if it’s going to work out. I am also not sure how the stories will work out. I am not sure if I will include my art or not. My plan is to make it work. To experiment and find my way. For now, all I have is the cover page. Which is super-simple. That’s the plan this year: super-simple.
I haven’t even bought an album yet. I have one that I’d been using for my OLW, etc and will put my pages in there until I am sure I am sticking to the 8.5×11 format. Then I’ll buy one. Likely, the American Crafts Modern albums as they are what I use for my normal albums. Here we go. Nothing super-sophisticated. Just an excuse to tell our stories. Let’s hope it works! Like last year and the year before, after I thought about my word and my plans for 2013, I began to think more and more about what the word and the priorities meant. Since I tend to be self-reflective during this time of year, this is very long and mostly for my benefit (I like having a record of my plans and my thoughts) so feel free to skip. I won’t be offended. By the way, this is influenced by Chris’s annual review article. I’ve read this before and have always liked the idea. I’m a technical person at heart and all these specific goals, measurable steps, etc. are right up my alley. Since I have my list of 9 priorities this year, I thought it would be a good exercise to see if I could come up with 3-5 goals for each. I will post about each of the projects I mention over the next week. I’ll then come back and link them here but I promise it’s all coming in the first week of the year. One of my goals this year is to specifically do less. I know this might not seem so from the list, but I am focusing on what I know will feed my soul but no more so I can also rest and breathe more since I know I have a big commitment this year as I work towards getting my coaching certification. So here we go: Goals for Each Priority Family Health Work Art Celebrating Reading Gratitude Learning Belonging (I changed this around a bit but it’s still about building community) There we go. As more creep up over the year, I will likely come here and add/alter as needed. Schedule for Blog I will also aim to post self-reflection/thought posts minimum three nights a week. Likely Monday through Thursday. Thoughts to Cultivate For the last two years, I created major focus areas I wanted to have throughout the year. Things that I want to come back to again and again. Some of these I will repeat for this year since I still would like to keep them forefront on my mind. And others are new for this year. These will likely show up in my art journals + self-reflection but I also want to have them here for reference. 1. Let go of worry Since my goal is to be present this year, I think this is even more important than usual. My goal this year is to remember to stay in the present moment. To breathe and see if I am worrying about something in the past or future vs the now. I also plan to use The Four Questions and listen to more of Tara Brach regularly. 2. Do Less I started slowing down last year and this year I plan to do so even more. With the coaching, I now have a lot of my free hours not free. I want to make sure I am making quality time to be with family. Quality time to rest. I do not want to burn out. I plan to do less this year. And let myself off the hook whenever I need it. Better to do one piece of art each week then to do 10 and then burn out. 3. Do not yell This one is self-explanatory. I absolutely hate hearing other people yell. And yet I do it more often than I’d like. This year, it’s a non-negotiable. It will not happen. It’s not a 5-10% thing. It’s all or nothing and the goal is nothing. People I love deserve my respect. (This is word for word from both years. I wish I could say I adhered to it. But, no. Ic did have much better moments in 2012 but for 2013, I want to be even more resolute. Stronger. Kinder. Quieter. Calmer.) 4. Be mindful I want to be a lot more aware of my own feelings. Those of my kids. Aware of how my actions affect others. How I actually have time before I need to react. How I can choose what to do next. How I can choose the tone of my voice, the way I feel, the way I react. 5. Celebrate I want to focus on all the good things in my life more purposefully this year. Take scheduled time to celebrate. Celebrate those around me and myself. Spread joy. Spread kindness. Make rituals. Reach out to people and celebrate together. Life is a present. The best gift ever. 6. Cultivate Belonging I have been struggling with community for a few years now. I think working at home and juggling all that I do makes it harder for me. I’ve also cultivated some social anxiety recently, it seems. So instead of trying to cure-it-all, my plan this year is to narrow down my focus. Find the few people I care about and cultivate those friendships. Focus on establishing deeper ties. Not necessarily wider but deeper. For me and my kids. That’s my plan this year. Let’s see if it works better. 7. Self-Compassion I want to be kinder to myself. I want to cultivate awareness so I can see when I fall back into my non-productive patterns and forgive myself. I want to show my kids that we all mess up and we all deserve forgiveness. I want to be kind, kind, kind. I want to practice non-judging awareness. And, most significantly, I want to quit taking things personally. 8. Be open While I want to learn to forgive myself for not enjoying some of the things others might, I also want to continue to ty new things. I want to be willing to do something just for someone else. Be open to the possibility that I might like it. I want to be brave. I want to be an example to my kids that we practice courage regularly. It’s not inherent. I want to show that sometimes we fail but we get up and try again. I want to move away completely from anything that encourages shame-words. I want to show that failure is a part of life and so is showing compassion to oneself. 9. Gratitude And, finally, this year I plan to kick the gratitude thing up a few notches. I want do practice it myself, cultivate it in both my kids, send it out to my friends. Just make it front and center in my life. I know it’s one of the biggest links to happiness. And so easy to do. And there we are. I am sure more will come up. But these are some of what’s on my mind. Here’s to hoping 2013 is fantastic for all of us!
Picking a word this year was challenging. Partly cause I grew to love Savor so much that I felt strongly that I didn’t want to let it go. When I look at my list from last year, I am amused at how many of the same words were on my list this year, too. Here was the list I tinkered with for months:
Like last year, I resisted my word this year. Even though present kept coming up, I just didn’t like the way it sounded. I didn’t like how long it was, how many e’s it had (when you’re a scrapper, these things matter!) and it just seemed too bland. But no matter how much I resisted it, it kept coming back to me. And after I finally decided to stop pushing back so hard, it felt completely right. It was going to be my word for 2013 and that was that. One of the things I love about the word present is that it has multiple meanings:
Like last year, I changed my blog banner on my site and bought myself another ring with my word on it. I am still wearing the savor one as well since I am not ready to let that word go yet. And there we are. The year of being present. Like last year and the year before, I also made my Priority List for 2013. Just to remind the idea behind this is: I was listening to The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and one of the things the author mentions is managing our time and how we spend much of it doing what’s urgent instead of doing what’s important. As in, we’re often reacting instead of thinking ahead and calmly acting in the direction of our dreams and priorities. So I decided it would beneficial for me to make a “Priority List”. A list of goals and people I want to prioritize during the year. This way, when an opportunity or request came my way, I could check my list and make sure it is aligned with my priorities before I accepted it. It’s easy to lose sight of things and take on projects that end up eating a lot of my time and not making me fulfilled. If I had my list to look at each time, I could keep what’s important at the forefront of my mind and make sure to prioritize it. Here’s my Priority List for 2013:
Like last year, these are not in order. Yes, most of the time my family comes first. However, there are times when work takes higher priority because it has to for a brief time. Or sometimes I might choose to exercise even if my son wants to play at that moment. These priorities are fluid for me. They are all a part of me and I want to make sure I value them and dedicate time to each. I also want to make sure I turn down anything that doesn’t line up with one of these. The list is similar to last year but not exactly the same. And like last time, I know you could make everything fit into one of these categories but, in my heart, I know what these mean. And I know when something comes along that doesn’t fit. Above everything, I want to stay true to my gut. I’ve made the mistake of doing something that will look good and make others think well of me before and it was a lot of heartache for me and so I want to listen to myself more and trust my gut and know that if I turn down something that feels wrong, other opportunities will still come my way and I will know when the right one is there. So I will have faith in myself and in the universe. And I will prioritize the important. And there we are. Here’s to an amazing 2013: The year I will be present, in the present and remember the present it all is. |
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