Nathaniel puts everything in his mouth so I decided to get him these teething biscuits and he loves them.
And then I remembered the mess they make!
On a completely unrelated note, I’ve had this toy for years and just realized that its in the shape of a face. The blue eyes, yellow eye brows, green head and blue hait. The smiling red mouth. Holy cow! How did I not ever notice that before?
Yesterday’s Gilroy Gardens attempt had to be aborted. So today we try again. We ended up in the model train show yesterday and then a long trip to Target. Let’s see if we manage to get there today.
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.
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.
My first pedicure in six years. Holiday spirit.
It’s been really rainy here so we’ve been cooped up at home. But it’s lush and green outside.
And here’s boy number one.
And boy number two.
Off to see if we can go to Gilroy Gardens. Here’s to hoping rain stops.
Hanukkah begins.
David was the Shabbat helper today at school so we all went to be with him.
Here he is collecting sadakah.
It was lovely watching him and how comfortable he was.
Nathaniel woke up at 4am today for his second feeding and I could not fall back asleep so I really need to go off to bed now. Happy weekend.
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.
This is from the wreath project David and I made yesterday. I found it here and had been saving it for an occasion.
And despite resisting it, David actually enjoyed it.
Today, we had playgroup. This is the third week of Nathaniel’s new playgroup and it’s been quite fun. I am really glad we can do this for him.
And one of him eating those puffs he loves so much.
Off from work for the next five days! Excited to rest and relax. And play.
Here are my pages for day nine.
I wanted to honor the baking and avocados so two simple pages today with photos and words.
and the back:
Sad that we’re almost on day ten.
See? I told you he’s standing up! He loves playing with this toy and standing up as he does, even though it’s supposed to be a sit-down toy.
I am normally very anti putting even slightly naked photos of my kids online anywhere. Just a personal peeve. To each his own. But I love this cute little one and it doesn’t show anything so I decided it was ok. This is from last night’s bath. David was in there, too.
And a smile from Nathaniel.
Trying to catch up today. Working hard and methodically. This month is going to be topsy turvy. I won’t get to read as many books but I will spend lots of time with my boys. All three of them. Love them.
Today David said that his brain was full and that he had to create more room in it. And then he proceeded to do just that. Love love love this boy.
This week’s question is: “What’s something you do over and over again?”
This was easy for me. Photos. I take photos over and over and over again. I love taking photos. I love capturing my family.
One of the few items on my list that I hadn’t done yet was using rubons on a tag. Just rubons. So I picked this beautiful Jenni Bowlin rubon which was so apt. I rubbed it on and then inked the tag. I love the way the silver makes it look embossed. I then put a tiny camera sticker just for me.
I now sell some of these tags in my etsy store. If there’s a tag you like and are interested in, email me or leave a comment and I’ll be happy to add it.
I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here.
Weekly tags are posted every Thursday, you can see all of them by clicking here.
Here are my pages for day eight.
I changed the cover cause I wanted to journal because the inside page of this is just a photo.
here’s the inside. I love the colors I see on my drive to David’s school and I wanted to capture it so I could remember forever:
On the back, I just put our Christmas tree.
Still keeping it simple.
This week’s download is a set of labels. They are really simple:
They are PDFs so you cannot change the color (apologies) but you can print them on white or craft or red cardstock. The words you get are: joy, love, christmas, blessings, santa, merry, surprise.
You can download it here: holiday labels 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.
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.
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monthly projects from previous years
some of my previous projects
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