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I apologize in advance for the quality in these photos. It gets dark so early here so I wasn’t able to snap good quality ones. I will try again tomorrow and replace these if I can get better ones. (Fixed now.) Today’s page is all about wrapping presents so I wanted to make the front look like a present. I wrapped it and used the day tag like a present tag. Here’s the front:
And detail:
And the back tells the story of our now full tree:
We’re more than halfway now. That makes me sad. This week’s download is a set of number cards that can be printed and used on your pages. Or used digitally. If you like them, let me know I can make more numbers. Wasn’t sure if these were neat or lame.
You can download it here: number cards set download. You are welcome to play with these as much as you want and use them anywhere you’d like. You are NOT allowed to sell them ever. You don’t have to but I’d appreciate a link back if you do use them. These cards use brushes from brush portfolio and other free ones I’ve stumbled upon. This is part of a weekly digital download series. They are posted every Wednesday. You can find all of the ones that were posted here. My good friend Lori pinged me on IM a few weeks ago and showed me The Gratitude Project by Brenda and she told me how much she liked the idea and that she wanted to do it for 2010. Not only did she want to do it, but she wanted to “teach it” and have a community around it, etc etc. She wanted to make downloads, ideas, etc to encourage other people to practice weekly gratitude, too. And then she asked me if I’d like to do it with her. Would I? Mmmm. Let me think for a second…Ok, I’ll be honest I didn’t even think for a second. I typed “YES!” I love this idea so much! Last year, I attempted to practice daily thankfulness and it didn’t last very long. But I love reading those entries now. I am sad I didn’t continue and I am determined to do it this time around. I’ve already figured out my format and made sure it will be easy to keep up with it. My plan is to write three things I’m thankful for each day. I will add that to my daily posts (which is another project for 2010) and then once a week, I will pick one thing and practice gratitude. More on my weekly project coming soon. In the meantime, here’s our blog. It’s where Lori and I will be posting everything. We hope to have a post every weekday. Let’s see how it works. If you’re interested in this idea and want to play along with us, make sure to leave a comment there. Practicing regular gratitude is really good for your soul and it’s been proven to make people happier. I hope you join us!
Like last year, I am picking a few special projects I plan to do for the duration of 2010. These are recurring projects that are daily, weekly, or monthly. I will share them in the next few weeks as we approach the new year.
I love that Nathaniel’s puffs are heart-shaped. Nathaniel didn’t sleep at all last night until 3am. So this morning I was wiped and decided I needed a mental day. I’ve had the last five days off for vacation and I have over 300 emails in my work account. I am traumatized at the idea of going near them. Tons of Amazon boxes showed up yesterday (David calls them the smiley boxes cause of the logo.) so I decided it was as good a time to wrap as any.
And here’s one of the little boy who was struggling a lot today. He has not been wanting to sleep cause he doesn’t want to be left alone but he won’t sleep when I am there and he needs the sleep so badly.
I managed to port all my comments from the old blog. Some of the pages are still the old style and they shall stay that way. What do you think about the redesign? I wanted larger images and I missed having a side column. I will fill it up over the next few weeks. This is project #1 for 2010 for me. A bit early but so it goes. More on the projects coming later. Please let me know if you notice anything odd with the site, I am trying to fix all the quirks. And I am also open to all opinions/suggestions of course. Still feeling my way around it. I apologize in advance for the quality in these photos. It gets dark so early here so I wasn’t able to snap good quality ones. I will try again tomorrow and replace these if I can get better ones. (Fixed now :)) For the 15th, I glued a paper to the back of David’s writing to Santa photo and stitched it to the overlay to create a pocket. Inside the pocket, I put his letter. Here’s the front:
And here’s back. I put a little xmas tree on the letter that shows through the overlay.
And a detail to show the stitching:
Keeping it simple still. I spent the whole day making some changes to my website. This is my yearly redesign and it’s very much unfinished. But I had to move because for the first time in ten years, I moved to not using my own database. I am now using hosted WordPress. There are many reasons to do this but I need to spend the next few weeks playing with it and seeing if I like it. So I thought why not now. It’s not like I don’t have 5 million things going on. Here’s me this morning. I woke up to see a much more swollen face.
I also woke up more depressed and sad. I am guessing the reality of what happened is finally hitting me now that the adrenalin and shock are wearing off. It’s going to be ok and I am already feeling better about it but I had a rough day today and so the kids very kindly played by themselves a lot.
David spent the day in his Buzz Lightyear costume. He still has a runny nose so I’ve been keeping him at home.
All was well until Nathaniel woke up from his afternoon nap and he was very hot. I took his temperature to find out it was 103. I didn’t even want to think of what might be wrong so I took him to the doctor and despite the Tylanol, his fever was still 102. They checked him and said he was ok and to watch and see if he feels better by Thursday. He’s been all sweet and mostly happy but I’m a basket case of course.
It’s only Tuesday but I am so ready for this week to be over already. Tomorrow I’m back at work after a long break which means hundreds of emails to be read and a ton of catching up. Fun fun fun! Ok I am off to sleep. More changes tomorrow. I haven’t moved over the comments yet and some other things either. But you are welcome to leave me comments on this post. Hopefully it will work. I am afraid you will have to change your RSS reader if you’ve been reading me on Google Reader, etc. I apologize for the inconvenience.  A whole slew of photos today. Just felt like capturing my family. David decided he wanted to write a letter to Santa. He wrote it all by himself. I sounded out the words to him so he could recognize the letters. Here he is writing it.  And writing some more.
And the finished product.
Nathaniel is still loving these biscuits. I took it away for two minutes and he cried until I gave it back.
And it makes a mess. Huge mess.
He’s standing all the time now. Still can’t sit down by himself but can stand up just fine.
And here’s me. It’s hard to see my bruise. I am not all black and blue but my nose is swollen quite a bit. And my thigh and back hurt a LOT.
Thank you for your kind words. I am trying to rest and relax. I happened to have taken today and tomorrow off work and David’s sick at home so except for a quick trip to work (to pick up a Christmas present) I’ve been home all day. Oh and the camera is all fine as you can see. Happy Monday. Here are my pages for day fourteen.  and the back is Nathaniel.  I sewed the papers on to the fabric and will slide my letter inside. Here are my pages for day thirteen.  same journaling I put on the post below.  In quite a bit of pain today but mostly my back not my nose. Here are my pages for day twelve.  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. So we made it to Gilroy Gardens last night and it was mostly drizzling so I was all excited about finally being there.  So I decided to run and grab a photo of my family as they walked in. Except that I was wearing the wrong shoes and I was stupid and I slipped and fell. And the camera fell with me and the lens hit my face. It all happened pretty quickly and since my running had prompted David to run Jake was trying to get him to stop and not looking at me at all. When he came over to see if I was ok, we both saw the blood dripping out of my nose. I’m told I was covered with it within seconds though I never got to see my face like that. We waited around for the EMT to show up, all the while I cursed myself for being so stupid. Several times I told them that we should just go in and I was fine. But Jake insisted we wait. Finally the woman showed up, cleaned me up and said we needed to go to the hospital cause my cut was too deep and it was going to need stitches. I had just told someone last week that I never had stitches in my life. Never. We got in the car and drove around for a bit, trying to find the urgent care she gave us directions for and the woman at the Walgreens drive-through told us that it was closed so we then got on the road to find the Gilroy hospital. Halfway through, we decided to bail and just come back home so we could go to Stanford hospital. By now, it was already past Nathaniel’s bedtime. We called up the hospital and they said that I had 12 hours to get sutures so it was safe to take the extra 45 minutes to drive there. When we got to the emergency room, the nurse looked at my nose and sent me to the extension which is a quieter, calmer portion of ER where less serious patients are sent. After several visits from hospital personnel, the resident showed up and looked at it. He said he might be able to just glue it. (Which made me happy, I am still nursing so I wasn’t keen on getting any drugs for the stitches. Not to mention my track record of not having any stitches.) We all waited for the attending to show up. Nathaniel was a champ the whole time.  The doctor came and decided she agreed and we could use dermabond. We were very concerned about any long-term scars since it’s on my nose but she assured there’s no difference between stitches and glue for that. So they cleaned my nose off really well with saline and went to get the stuff. I asked Jake to snap some photos while they were gone. I had still not seen what I looked like. Here’s the only one that came out relatively clear.  The resident came back, glued me up twice and put some small bandages on. The doctor came back and checked his work. And then the nurse came and gave me a tetanus shot (I hadn’t had one since I taught for Teach For America in 2002. And I guess you need to have had it in the last 5 years.) which made me bleed all over. So at 8:15pm, we were finally done and could go back home. Everyone was exhausted and worn out from being on adrenalin for four hours. After having paid the $15 admissions fee for all three of us and the $10 parking fee, the above one is the only photo I have to show for the almost four hours we spent driving back and forth to Gilroy this weekend. The $55 photo.
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