Years ago, when the joys and struggles of parenting had me calling my own mother, laughing, crying or begging for advice, she told me to "write it all down, it will be different one day, and you will want to look back on it and remember it"
Two reasons I didn't take her advice:
1.) Finding the time seemed impossible.
2.) I never thought I would forget the things that made me crazy, or the cute way my toddlers said words
in that new found skill of speech.
Now my baby is 9 -
Isaac is pushing close in on 11
and Michael is a taller than me teenager, at 13.
I did start blogs for them all a couple of years ago, thinking that I would try to remember and record some funny stories, but they have sat empty for the most part.
Then we moved to Guam, and I decided to start a Guam blog to keep in touch with friends and family. They just seemed so far away, that I wanted to do something to keep everyone closer, at least in thought.
My friend Sam and I, began scrapbooking together after we moved to Guam. Something we had done at a previous duty station a few years back, and something that we both enjoy.
She encouraged me to follow in the footsteps of the famous scrapbooker, Ali Edwards.
She has an album she does each year called the December Daily.
You can learn more about it by clicking this link
My goal is to not make a list of things accomplished everyday,
or a list of those things that I didn't,
but to remember the little things.
the cute things that were said,
the moments of joy,
the moments of laughter,
the love that brings everyone closer this Christmas season.
Merry Christmas
