Okay, Ali Edwards, I have been dreaming of this for a month now. Thank you for the enabling, Pam and Shel...I am up and running AND I have coerced my family into supporting me throughout this endeavor! I worked on an album cover a couple weeks back, so that I wouldn't wash the idea. I took some notes and brainstormed some ideas on how to catch the randomness of our "normalcy" without interrupting it all the while.
I told myself this was something I needed to do for ME. I want to be reflective. How do we REALLY spend our time? What do we value most? As a family - DO we intertwine our days or live them on different wave lengths? As the kids are growing up, I NEED to know these things!! A few years down the line all of this might look crazy different, and I want to look back and see how, why and all of the above. And wouldn't it be just SO EASY to flip to it in the pages of a book?Yeah, I know not EVERYBODY see the importance in a project like this. But I'll cross my fingers and hope that my great grandkids might appreciate it. What I wouldn't give to see something like this from my ancestors. I'm not a person who lives only in the present - it's not all about me. Everyone should KNOW where they came from; everyone should have dreams of where they might end up. And for that reason I am starting my "Week in the Life" project today.
I made up simple sheets for the everyday note taking. Each sheet asks the same of every one of us: wake up time, list breakfast, lunch, and dinner, errand/chores, bedtime, and a spot for notes that just don't fit anywhere else. I plan on stitching these right into the album along with the pictures and other goodies we collect along the way.SO, get ready for the influx of blog posts: one each day this week - full of the random, the off-the-cuff moments that I tend not to always display. From the time the alarm clock gets us going to the second we close our eyes at night, we will live life this week by highlighting our routines and schedules. Shouldn't be a dull moment to be had...
2 comments:
Yay, I can't wait to see it!!!! I will do one too, but not until school is out. I can't commit now! Plus, I need to meantally prepare and plan it out. But I'm totally looking forward to yours!
You are so prepared, I love it! I love the idea of the notes and just stitching those into the album. I can't wait to see the finished product. I really wanted to the the 15th project I was talking about, but I totally missed it Saturday because of all the drama. I will have to get you to do it with me in June:)
You're album cover is so ridiculously cute too!
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