Day number Twenty-five.
The journaling is about how my favorite thing in the world is watching my two kids play and laugh together and how David is the best big brother and loves making his little brother laugh.
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This week I wanted to focus on me. I mean you. I mean I want each of us to focus on ourselves. I want us to practice some gratitude towards ourselves. Appreciate ourselves. I want you to think of how hard you try so much of the time. How you give it your best and sometimes you fall short and sometimes you hit the mark, but each time you try. How you love wholeheartedly. How you fill the dishwasher and empty it and do the laundry and cook and clean and put make up on and fit into clothes that hurt a little bit or shoes that hurt a lot just to look a bit better. How you smile sometimes when you want to scream. How your patience is tried day in and day out but you still give the baths, read the stories, hug, kiss and love. Maybe you don’t have kids but take care of your mom. Or do both. Maybe you have a sick friend. Or a high maintenance lover. Maybe you work too hard at a job where you’re not appreciated enough. Maybe you study a lot and still get mediocre grades. Maybe you try and try and try and don’t always make it. Maybe you don’t have as many friends as you’d like. Your art is not as amazing as you wish it were. You would like to read more. Eat less. Exercise. You’d like to keep in touch better. You want to write that novel already. Or take that course. Visit that country. Quit the job. Start your dream business. You have dreams. You have frustrations. Ups and downs. Don’t we all? Even the happiest among us has hard days and the saddest among us has good ones. That’s life. And while you work everyday to make it better for yourself. Or even while you’re wallowing in your ice cream in front of the TV, just cut yourself some slack today. Pat yourself on the back. Take the day off. Wear the comfy clothes, grab a book you love or a TV show you’ve been looking forward to and allow yourself the pleasure. Stand in front of the mirror and take a good look at yourself. Give yourself a hug. You deserve it. You really do. Just for today, make sure you really appreciate yourself. I have a friend who always told me that if I said enough bad things about myself, others would start seeing me that way and I really believe her. It all starts with you. If you don’t appreciate yourself, how can you expect others to? The following is cross-posted from the Weekly Gratitude Blog. I will post there every Tuesday and decided to post those posts here, too. For those of you who read both blogs, I apologize in advance. Some weeks the content might be different and other weeks, exactly the same.
Happy, relaxing day today. After last night’s LOST finale, it was hard to get up at 5 but the little one wakes up when he does and there’s no stopping him. So we woke up, we hugged, nursed, and just lay there until I felt awake which is when I started my layout. Took a bit longer to get going than usual today. But I had taken the day off so it was ok. I pretty much lazied around all day. Read my book, surfed, etc. Then I played legos with David while Nathaniel explored everything around the room.
And in the drawers.
David and I built a lego restaurant that was on fire so the fire-woman came to put it out.
And then I made dinner for the kids while David continued to play.
A little glimpse into a life where I don’t work. Quite different, at least stress-wise. And now that the kids are sleeping, I plan to write tomorrow’s gratitude post and spend the rest of the night reading my book. I have tomorrow off, too so it’s another relaxing day waiting for me. I can’t believe there are only 7 days left in May. It passed way way too quickly. Note to Self: Three Things I’m Grateful For: Two Things David’s Grateful For: Here’s today’s layout.
And Though Now It’s Really Gone Forever, I will Remember. Journaling is about how Nathaniel had this funny crawl where he didn’t bend his knees and now that he’s walking it’s gone forever but thanks to this photo I will get to remember it forever. Details:
And here goes day twenty-four. This week’s craft was super simple but very important. My mom turned 60 on Saturday and we wanted to do something for her for when we were going to Skype. Our initial goal was to make hats but we couldn’t do it with what we had at hand, so we decided to make a big banner. We picked some paper.
And lined up our stamps.
And then stamped away.
see? there he is
and here it is finished. simple but gets the job done.
and here it is hanging behind us when we’re chatting with her.
we love you SO MUCH Amore!! HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Last night I went to bed at 6pm and woke up briefly at 7:30 and went right back down at 8:30 and slept until 4am when David came into my room to blow his nose (it was dark and I didn’t realize until the morning that his nose was actually bleeding when I woke up to find a bunch of blood on my sheets. Then Nathaniel woke up briefly after, and thus began our day. I hugged my kid for a while and then did my page for today. Nathaniel went down for his nap and took a long one, look at him when he wakes up. He’s all pink and I love it.
And then he decided to turn the TV on and off for fun. He’s really good at that.
We spent the rest of the day watching movies. We’re both exhausted so it was really the very best way day to spend our day and add to that some delicious goat cheese sandwiches and I was in heaven. And now we’re watching more TV and I can’t wait for Lost finale tonight and I am off work for the next two days so it’s more of this. Yes! I need the relaxing time, I need the rest. oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY Aksel and Jeff, I love you both so much!!! Note to Self: Three Things I’m Grateful For: Two Things David’s Grateful For: Here’s #23.
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I am exhausted. I can barely hold my head up. I have so much to say but no energy. None. So I’ll just say. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU. Here we are videoconferencing and singing her happy birthday.
And David playing the wii.
And Nathaniel playing too.
I have much to say. More coming tomorrow, I promise. Note to Self: Three Things I’m Grateful For: Two Things David’s Grateful For: Today’s layout is a sneak since it’s going to be posted at the A Million Memories blog in a week or so. I will come back and post the full one then. (Edited to add: now it’s up so here’s the full layout, which is a scraplift of the amazing zarah.)
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Here’s this week’s item: For the kids’ bathroom, I went with a simple set of photos I had from Burgaz:
In our bathroom, I put some butterflies (image coming). But, really, the bathroom we use the most is the one downstairs. I mentioned a few weeks ago that I got some wonderful prints from Kal Barteski, these were the four that didn’t go up in the living room.
I am sorry for the terrible quality of the photos. There’s no light at all in that room so it’s hard to get a high quality image. Here is a closeup:
And another:
These are also tiny art and here are the ones in Kal’s site: 45, 31, 43, 47 I adore every single one of them and they make me happy each time I walk into my bathroom.
When David’s gone, Nathaniel loves playing with anything he might have left at his table. Today it was the crayons.
Here’s me telling him not to touch.
And here they are later in the day. I love these boys. I am grateful for them through and through.
This promises to be a long (and hopefully wonderful) weekend. Both Jake and I took Monday and Tuesday off as Tuesday is our anniversary and we hope to have some family fun in the next four days. Well, not tomorrow really since I am gone pretty much all day tomorrow to the Mother’s Retreat, about which, of course, I have mixed emotions. And since I have to leave quite early and am not sure how the rest of the day will do, I did my layout for tomorrow already. It’s for the AMM blog and I can only show a sneak anyway. But that’s 22 layouts so far. Quite amazing if you ask me. I am also hoping to sit and journal a bunch this weekend for next week’s layouts. Let’s see if it happens. Note to Self: Three Things I’m Grateful For: Two Things David’s Grateful For: Layout a day number 21. Woo hoo.
This uses photos from Mother’s Day and the journaling is about how getting these photos of my family was the best mother’s day present ever. I love love these photos. Details:
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