Happy Friday! Today was one of those “i don’t know where the time went” kind of days for me. I did a bunch and had a friend over briefly even but I still feel like the day got away from me. When I put Nathaniel down for his nap he wasn’t happy. He then said ouch ouch after a while so I went back up and he was pointing to his eye. But when I took him out, he seemed better so I thought maybe he was faking it to not nap. I put him back in and he finally fell asleep.
When he woke up 45 minutes later he was still super cranky and would not relax for a long time. As we went to get David, I noticed his eye was still watery and I couldn’t tell if it was because he kept rubbing it or cause he was hurt. I called the doctor and they said to come in so they could check. So I picked up David and we went in. And I am so glad we did!! It turned out that the little boy had somehow managed to scratch his cornea. No wonder he was so grouchy and frustrated. My poor poor boy.
When we got back home, I snapped some super quick photos.
But none of us were in the mood really.
We read David’s book, ate some dinner and Jake came home so David and I took a walk just the two of us cause I didn’t want to risk any dirt getting in Nathaniel’s eye. We gave him his medicine and he’s finally asleep. I feel so bad for the little boy and how much pain he must have been in without being able to express himself.
No plans for the weekend. Sunset magazine is nearby to us and they’re having their celebration weekend so we might stop by there but we’re expecting a lot of rain here so I plan to sit at home, curl up with books, play with my wonderful new art supplies and just cuddle up with my kids. To me, that’s the best kind of weekend.
Hope yours is great, too.
Three Things I’m Grateful For:
1. I am grateful that I called the doctor and took Nathaniel in. I am glad I didn’t ignore it. I am glad it’s a small scratch and it will heal very soon.
2. I am grateful for a quiet weekend with no major todo list items.
3. I am grateful that I did a little art journaling today. Even though I didn’t like how the page turned out, I love that I tried, experimented and I will keep doing so.
Three Things David’s Grateful For:
1. I am grateful that I got a Pokemon card and two lollipops. {* his pick for the journal}
2. I am grateful that I get a notebook tomorrow. I told him he could bring one to school to write in during lunchtime.
3. I am grateful that I got to have a lollipop.
Well June started with a bang. The first day I ended up forgetting to set my nike+ so I exercised way longer and then the second day I felt way too tired and barely made it through. But I am still at it and now up to 3.12 miles as day which is 5K so I am quite amazed that I can do it. I’m on 245th consecutive day and have exercised more than 600miles. That’s mind blowing for someone like me. On thing that’s been helping a ton on the exercise is the classes I’m taking. I have a lot of art videos to watch so they keep my mind occupied as I work out. Though this hasn’t done wonders for the reading since that’s what I normally do when I am exercising. Alas, whatever works, right?
On the food front, I haven’t done a great job last week of following my meal plan. And didn’t make one for this week but I have been writing down everything I am eating and I am focusing on eating more protein and making sure to eat one dish each meal so I eat a salad (often with chicken) for lunch and another meal with protein for dinner. I am still drinking more coffee than I’d like but I’m telling myself that it’s about baby steps. Once I start eating more wholesome food with a good amount of protein, I can then move on to working on the coffee.
I decided that I won’t be buying a clothing item for May. I bought some sandals earlier this month and my mom sent me some clothes, I don’t think I need anything for now. Instead I used that allowance to buy some fun art supplies so I can enjoy them every single day.
and here’s this week’s card:
Healthy for Life is a weekly project for 2011. You can read more about it here.
This layout was my second May blog post for Pink Paislee.
The theme was to tell a story. Which, for me, just means make a scrapbook page since I always tell a story 🙂
The journaling Reads:
David, I know I take too many photos of you and that sometimes I drive you crazy and you just don’t want to smile at the camera any more. But what I love so much is that you can’t help yourself. A few seconds and you break into a smile and then laugh like crazy. I love you my son.
Details:
Well, today’s exercise was super-hard, too but I did it. I powered through it and I was very thankful when it was done! Then I made a layout and sketched and spent some time with Nathaniel. At his insistence, his little table is now right next to mine so he can color as I scrap and we can be physically close to each other. I love that!
And then he napped, I worked and worked. Then it was time to get David. He was wearing a green shirt with blue jeans and looked so handsome so I asked him to pose for some photos. Nathaniel got jealous right away so he ran to give him a hug.
Then he made some goofy faces for me.
then Nathaniel interrupted again and they laughed and laughed.
and hugged some more.
Then David fake-fell on the floor so Nathaniel did too.
He said a fake “ouch!”
So David did, too!
and then Nathaniel sat on him and they hugged some more.
Aren’t they wonderful!! I love my kids and feel so blessed.
I am off to do some more scrapbooking. When I have things due, I can’t seem to stop myself from wanting to finish them so I will not rest easy until these are done. But just two more to go so I can see the light. I have also begun to art journal a bit (as well as my weeklong one) but I can’t figure out which day to post them since I have too many posts already. I don’t want to overwhelm anyone. Maybe during the weekend?
Three Things I’m Grateful For:
1. I am grateful for happy happy colors. My current layouts are filled with super happy colors and I love that.
2. I am grateful for pinterest. I haven’t been using it as much lately but it still makes me deeply happy.
3. I am grateful that I got my new fitbit. My old one has battery problems so they sent me a replacement. I am hoping it will fix my problems and I am so happy to have the new one.
Three Things David’s Grateful For:
1. I am grateful that I played on the computer. {* his pick for the journal}
2. I am grateful that I did word searches at school.
3. I am grateful that Daddy came home early.
Here are the sketches from this week. I am still playing around with different subject matter, mediums, etc. I can’t say I’ve found my comfort zone yet and while most of these are ok, I am still not really happy with them. But practice makes perfect, right? So I keep practicing.
On Wendesday, I started simple with this girl.
right after, I tried something different with this girl.
Thursday I did these owls.
Friday was the birds and trees in water.
on Saturday I made the girl with wings
on Sunday, I did this face:
Monday, I totally changed course and made the windmills:
and Tuesday I tried to make this amazing girl but my attempts were nothing like the striking original:
and here we are. Not the best week but also not the worst. I am still going and I love that.
Thankfully, this morning I woke up considerably less cranky and whiny. I got right to work which was to exercise first thing. Today’s goal was 3.12miles and I think likely cause I was nervous about that, I forgot to take my ipod off the pause and it was 20 minutes in that I realized my mistake. I could have just assumed a mile (likely more) and done only 2.12 more but it was the first day doing 3.12 so I wanted the record to be straight. So I started as if I hadn’t walked at all and made it all the way to 3.12 and it was hard. By the end I was not a happy camper. But I did it!
I snapped this shot of David before he left for school. I rarely take AM shots during the week but I love snapping some while he talks to me.
Then I snapped one of the busy little boy, too.
He loves to color but he’s not so great about putting the caps back on.
The rest of the morning was sketching, writing, working, working, working and then going to get David. We did our walk and then read our book. Right after that Jake and David went to a robot factory right across from our house. Which they loved!! Then I got to take some nicer shots of my big boy.
He’s so pretty.
I tried to snap some of Nathaniel too but he wasn’t cooperating. Here he is looking up cause I told him there was a spider behind me.
And here is another unsuccessful attempt.
Then I gave up and went back to working on a layout. I got another happy mail today so I have a few layouts to make and then I should have a quiet period for a while. This package was full of bright, happy goodies. A perfect way to start the summer.
After that I did some art journaling as I’d neglected my journal last night out of grumpiness. And now I am trying to work on getting some content written for a class but honestly I am not feeling it so I am likely to walk away and just surf a bit and go to sleep and read my book. I consider this a good and happy day and hope for another productive day tomorrow.
I hope your Wednesday was good, too!
Three Things I’m Grateful For:
1. I am grateful for some lovely happy mail and for a happy layout created with it.
2. I am grateful for Skype time with my mom and dad. I love getting to talk to them so often. Love you mom and dad!!.
3. I am grateful for some quiet time at work so I can catch up on all the work that I got behind these last few hectic months.
Three Things David’s Grateful For:
1. I am grateful that I went to the robot factory. {* his pick for the journal}
2. I am grateful that I played spies with Julian at school.
3. I am grateful that I built an aquarium at school.
Ready for some more truth cards? I love making these and looking at them.
Here’s the fifth card [inspiration]
and sixth card: [inspiration]
and seventh: [inspiration]
and here’s the eigth: [inspiration]
that’s it for this week.
Truth cards are ATC-sized cards I am creating as part of my homework for Soul Restoration. You can read more about it here.
Another month means another gallery at Write.Click.Scrapbook. This month is all about being inspired by a post/project from this year. I am still in love with these colorful cupcakes from Celeste’s post so I used them as my color inspiration.
This was designed with the beautiful Lime Twist line from My Mind’s Eye.
Journaling Reads:
You are very much obsessed with Thomas right now and read all the books you find. I love watching you and hearing you say choo choo all day.
And some details:
I picked up Left Neglected because something about the cover really spoke to me. I kept reading about it and seeing it in several places. I was worried it would be depressing and I am really trying to stay away from sad books lately.
While it was a sad story, the book wasn’t depressing at all. It was told in the matter-of-fact manner of the main character. And I think I related the story somewhat because many parts of her life are just like mine.
In the end, I loved the novel. It was sad but not dramatic. It felt like normal life and things were not tied with a bow at the end but enough things resolved that I felt fulfilled and not shortchanged and I also didn’t feel like it’s was super-happy (which would have felt unrealistic). I really enjoyed the author’s style as well. It was easy to read and I kept wanting to pick up the book and read more.
I know she’s written Still Alice but I am told that one’s too depressing so I will just wait for future novels from her and hope they are more like this one.
Even though I woke up relatively ok, I spent most of today cranky so I will keep it short. I did finally get the little table back out from the garage. thank you for the comment Dawn, it’s what made me do it and the little boy was so happy!
Even though the colors are off, big boy was happy today, too.
We sat and read our book together which made little boy jealous so he acted out:
The funniest part was that he kept looking through his fingers to make sure we were watching him be sad. Love the little actor.
Ok I am off to help my husband with his work and then off to bed and maybe tomorrow i’ll wake up from the right side of the bed.
Three Things I’m Grateful For:
1. I am grateful that I used my cricut to make a bunch of stencils and masks.
2. I am grateful for everyone’s patience with me here in the house today as i was super grouchy.
3. I am grateful for a night without todo lists. Just resting is what I need.
Three Things David’s Grateful For:
1. I am grateful that I played with Julian. {* his pick for the journal}
2. I am grateful that I will ride my bike after dinner.
3. I am grateful that next Thursday is pajama day.
This weeklong page was my attempt to try some doodling. I had this very colorful background and then added some butterflies and since they were doodled, I decided to add them all along the edges..
Here it is empty:
I intended to leave them empty, but as the week went along, I colored them.
here’s the left page:
And the right side:
And here’s the filled page:
I never intended to fill them but I love love love the way this page ended up. That’s the great thing about this process, I almost always adore the final product.
Weekly Art Journal is a weekly project for 2011. You can read more about it here. And you can find out more about the weeklong daily journaling here.
And the long weekend is sadly almost over. I had such a lovely weekend that I really didn’t want it to end. I relaxed, exercised, did art, took a nice walk with my kids, sketched, made a layout, took photos, and then relaxed some more. Lovely. David spent some of his morning looking through my layouts of him.
He read all the titles and even some of the journaling. He really really enjoys looking at his pages and I love seeing his joy.
We then put Nathaniel down for his nap and while I sketched and made my layout, he colored with watercolors outside.
Then Nathaniel woke up and we took a long walk together and he played around the room. He even cleaned up some spilled water.
I took what might be my most favorite recent shot of him.
He’s still coloring like crazy and when he can’t reach the table, he does it on the chair. He’s so so so cute though which is why I let him do it. And also because he knows to write only on paper.
We all had some food and then Daddy came home!! which was wonderful. He hung out with the kids, went biking with David, gave them baths and now we’re both relaxing. I have to still journal and work on my art journal. I feel so full after such a wonderful weekend. I hope yours was, too.
Three Things I’m Grateful For:
1. I am grateful that I made another layout and sketched today but then also relaxed a lot.
2. I am grateful Jake’s back. Nothing is the same without him here.
3. I am grateful for this long, wonderful, relaxing weekend.
Three Things David’s Grateful For:
1. I am grateful that daddy came back. {* his pick for the journal}
2. I am grateful that we took a bike ride.
3. I am grateful that I read my layout pages.
4. I am grateful that I watercolored.
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