Today is about Nathaniel’s swim class. He has so much spirit and so much joy that he can’t contain it.
I love my sparkly little boy.
Today is all about book club. Specifically my Young Adult book club. Even though this story happened a few days ago, i wanted to make sure to have it in my album. So here it is.
I love how this journal is a bit of Christmas, a bit of daily life, and a lot of reflection.
- Weekly Intention: And here we are with week 50. We’re down to the last three weeks of the year. How quickly time passes blows my mind. There were many things I wanted to do last week that I didn’t get to and truth be told, I don’t think I will get to them this week either. Such is life. I feel like the 2017 plans are looming over me. I spent some serious time with Core Desires this week and it was worthwhile. I then had a moment of truth yesterday which also helped clarify some soul work I should be doing in 2017. But I still don’t have my projects/plans written out and I like to have it all by now. What I’ve noticed is that when I do have the little down time I have, I am not spending it wisely. Well, I am reading. I am working on my December book, etc. Not that these things aren’t important but I am not sitting with the kids, teaching like I used to. I am not planning my 2017 and what I’d like to work on. I am not journaling to understand how I feel. And these things are more important. These things are how I heal, how I grow, how I nurture. So I need to switch that around. I need to make the time for what I value first and then fill the rest with the things I like.
- Choices I want to make:
- One: I will choose to show up at both of the kids’ schools with joy and presence.
- Two: I will choose to go to work, be present, work hard when I am there.
- Three: I will choose to spend some quiet time with myself. Do journaling. Something to ground myself. This will be hard as it’s a busy week but I will take the time to make this happen.
- I am looking forward to: Friday. Even if I will be on the plane most of the day.
- This week’s challenges: I have two trips to work, two to Nathaniel’s school, two to David’s school, and a book club this week, all before Friday. I have several things that must be done for work before the week is out. I expect this will be a challenging week.
- Top Goals:
- Work: clear emails, finalize okrs, send out newsletters, write interview notes. these are my must-dos this week.
- Personal: I would like two hours alone this week. Somewhere to sit and think and journal. Let’s see if I can make it happen.
- Family: I am hoping we will all feel adventurous this week.
- I will focus on my core desires (kind, strong, true, generous, brave) by:
- I will be kind to Nathaniel’s class this week. I get to volunteer there and I am looking forward to it.
- I will be strong make it through this week and get everything done so I can take my vacation in peace.
- I will be generous with my family. with time, effort, kindness.
- I will be true to myself about my needs. i will make a plan for growth and kindness.
- I will be brave and take this week one day at a time. make the most of each moment. be present and do what needs to be done then.
- This week, I want to remember: that my life is rich and joyful and the gratitude i feel deep in my heart is unbounded.
Here’s to a wonderful week. Happy week 50!
Today is all about the boys playing music.
I cannot put into words the joy it brings me when I hear my boys play music and sing together.
- Three Choices I made this week:
- One: I chose to show up at work and get as much work done as possible. Early part of my week was day and night meetings. but I showed up. I did my part to the best of my ability.
- Two: I chose to buy lots of warm clothes. I think we are readier than we were.
- Three: I chose to do my December Daily. I planned a bit more of 2017 but still nowhere near ready. Oh and I am almost done with Christmas shopping.
- I read/learned: I finished Hungry Heart, Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares, Salt to the Sea and the sequel to a book that came out this year ( i got to read an early version.) I’m reading This is your Life Harriet Chance! at the moment. I watched the two episodes of This is Us waiting for me on the Tivo and loved them both.
- I celebrate: getting cold weather clothes for all of us. Shopping is a big struggle for me.
- I am grateful for: my husband. I am just so so grateful for him.
- I focused on my health by: nothing still. If i were less honest, I’d remove this section but I think it needs to stay.
- I made art: december daily baby!
- I let go of: nothing this week. I have been having a tough time on and off. Sometimes I feel totally fine and other times the smallest thing can set me off. It’s crazy, I tell you.
- Core Desire Check-in:
- Kind: I’ve been kind to Nathaniel’s school this week. Went to a parent meeting, listened and made some plans.
- Strong: I was strong with work still and my meetings and the shopping. that was strong and brave of me!
- True: I was not true to my wishes around planning for 2017. I am not sure what it means that I just can’t seem to get it together.
- Generous: I was generous with the boys and Christmas presents.
- Brave: I was brave to do the shopping. I was brave to go to work so much.
Here’s to another good week! 🙂
Weekly Reflection is a year-long project for 2016. You can read more about my projects for 2016 here.
Day ten has two stories because I’d already made one when the other happened and I knew I had to also add it. The first story is about David being with his friends at Tech Challenge. I printed a few photos and put them in the slot in the page. To the right, is the second story: Two bombs that went off in Istanbul.
On the back, is the story about how I always feel worried having family away.
Thankfully, my family is ok.
I finally got some time to catch up on my pages.Day nine was going to David’s school and watching the arts and electives culmination. I got a copy of the program.
I love adding these into my journals.
David performed two Beatles songs: If I Fell and Here Comes the Sun.
and he made this beautiful lantern which depicts scenes from his short story. I love love loved it.
I was grumpy about going to this culmination after a terribly long Friday and realized I would have missed so much had I not gone!
Here’s day eight! I talked about our Jewish Christmas tree today. I will likely have more pages about our tree but I still wanted to make sure to do this one.
Love those blue lights.
I then added a photo of my tree in daylights
it’s a little 5×7 insert.
and then in the back, it’s night:
see you tomorrow! 🙂
Day Seven is all about the cookie decorating party we had at work! I added a page with my photo of my decorated cookie.
a shot of some of the awesome decorations for the back:
I like adding these random pages into the album:
and then in the original day seven page, I put a shot of the whole table and did some journaling. We had this one edible stocking where you could write your name so I snagged one and added that to my page, too.
so grateful for my job!
I wanted to commemorate our puzzles for Day Six. We’ve been working on this Harry Potter puzzle for over a week and finally finished it!!
Here’s a single page look:
I’ve been trying to keep it simple this year so it’s still doable.
Here’s day five! Every Sunday I go to the farmer’s market to get the boys’ their berries for the week. It is one of my favorite things to do so I wanted to make sure to put it here.
And the little photo on top is from my friend Evelyn’s party. She’s a parent at my son’s school, an amazing writer and she runs the Young Adult book club I go to. Love her!
That’s it for day five 🙂
- Weekly Intention: Wow, week 49. This year is racing to the end. Last week was crazy busy and gave me less than zero personal time. Including the weekend, which means I didn’t do much of what I wanted to do last week (except for work.) So here’s what’s on my mind for this week:
- I did buy some Christmas presents but I’d like to be done with that 100% this week.
- I booked us a vacation for a short trip in December I’d like to do a bit of research so we can have a plan for when we’re there.
- I’d like to spend some time on my 2017 plans, it feels like I might never get this done.
- I’d also like some downtime this week. Some time to sleep, some time to rest, some time to slow down.
- Also, we need to buy clothes for our trip to Canada since it will apparently be -20Celcius and living in California, none of us have clothes or shoes for such weather.
- Choices I want to make:
- One: I will choose to work enough that I don’t worry about work this week. Do what needs to be done.
- Two: I will choose to do my December Daily.
- Three: I will choose to spend some quiet time with myself. Do journaling. Something to ground myself.
- I am looking forward to: enjoying the moments of this week.
- This week’s challenges: not that i want to jinx it but nothing looks too terrifying this week. a trip to work, one trip to N’s school, two trips to D’s school, book club. Which sounds like a lot but it’s a quieter week for me, may it stay so. the biggest challenge will be to finish xmas shopping and to get our clothes+shoes for Canada especially since I hate shopping.
- Top Goals:
- Work: stay on top of email + newsletters + asap do lists. let’s make this happen!
- Personal: i almost don’t even want to write make the 2017 plan. maybe just journaling this time?
- Family: presents+shopping+slow down and be nice!
- I will focus on my core desires (kind, strong, true, generous, brave) by:
- I will be kind to Nathaniel this week. I would like to give him a bit extra attention. And help David with math.
- I will be strong and get xmas done, wrap all the presents, and buy the warm clothes we need.
- I will be generous with our trip, i will relax.
- I will be true to myself about my limits. some things will get done, many things won’t. that’s just life.
- I will be brave with the shopping. i so hate shopping.
- This week, I want to remember: that adventures are good. they are worthwhile. even the ones that don’t work as expected.
Here’s to a wonderful week. Happy December!
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