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December Daily 2009 – Day 13

Here are my pages for day thirteen.

Since I don’t really have any other photos, day thirteen is about our *fun* time in Gilroy.

same journaling I put on the post below.

In quite a bit of pain today but mostly my back not my nose.

December Daily 2009 – Day 12

Here are my pages for day twelve.

Hard to tell from this shot but the photo has journaling all around it.

and the back is about out trip to the model train exhibit.

One of the things I noticed in the last month was that I really like stitching on my layouts. It’s hard to do that on this album since both sides are pre-prepared. So I did this on a separate sheet and then adhered it.

December Daily 2009 – Day 11

Here are my pages for day eleven.

I loved this fabric so I wanted to not cover it.

and the back celebrates David being the Shabbat helper:

I have so many mixed feelings about this album. I love documenting our family but on one side I wish I were craftier, on the other side I wish it were plainer and more classic, and everything in between. Then I remind myself it’s about documenting. About being present. Everything else is icing. And documenting, we are.

December Daily 2009 – Day 10

Here are my pages for day ten.

This one is actually a continuation of day nine since we did the wreath on the 9th.

and the tenth:

Keeping it simple still.

Weekly Layouts – Writing Your Letters

I forgot to post the weekly layout this week. So here’s one with the December AMM Kit.

David, one of the things I regret a lot is not spending more quality time with you. Especially now that I am working from home and we’re together more often. I worry that maybe I am not teaching you enough. Maybe when you go to school, you’ll be behind all those other kids. I want to make sure that you have all the opportunities you deserve.

A few weeks ago, I decided it would be a good idea for us to start practicing our letters. I knew you could already write your name but I wasn’t sure how many of the other letters you could write. So we started practicing. Every day, we’d pick one letter and write it ten, twenty times. Over and over again until it came easily to you.

About two weeks into it, we did start to slack a bit and I was feeling guilty again, so, one night, you wanted to play with my beads and I made a deal with you, I said you have to sit and write one of each of the letters in the alphabet and you could come play with me. So you did. You sat down. And began to write. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUvWXYZ.

You wrote them all. Perfectly.

I guess maybe I don’t need to worry after all. You’re doing wonderfully all on your own.