One of my New Year's resolutions is to be a bit more consistent with my blogging. And to stay focused on one of the main reasons I began this blog--to try to document this special time in my life where I get to stay home to raise my family and be a full-time homemaker the way I want to do it...the way it feels right for me to do it. And by that I mean having at least a little time here and there to do more of what I truly love for, and often with, my family, like cook, sew, and craft. I know that when I had to balance those interests with working outside the home on top of family duties, I didn't get to do them nearly as much.
The end of my two-year sabbatical from my job is quickly approaching, so there are some decisions we need to make. But I'm not quite ready to face them yet. So what better way to make time stand still a bit longer than to look at all the lovely Christmas and holiday cards we received this year. I've spent the better part of the morning cleaning the house and putting away holiday decorations. But I paused for a bit as I took down the cards.
I love holiday cards--especially ones with photos. We display them through out the season and then I move them to fabric memo boards that Charlie made for me in the basement, where we can enjoy them for another year...little hands love to take down the cards to study faces, which may explain this less than tidy display.
After that, they get placed, grouped by family, in a photo box for safe keeping. I love to flip through them to see how everyone's children are growing up (too quickly if you ask me).
Here is our family card this year, done on Scrapblog. Since I'm not the best about keeping up with my scrapbooking, as a compromise, I like to write a snippet in our cards of what the boys are up to. I hope to present each of our children, someday in the far future, with a collection of Christmas cards that chronicles much of their childhood quirks. I'll dig around for our cards from prior years and post those too--I try to do a different theme each year. This year I came up with playing off an instruction manual of sorts...I'm starting to run out of ideas! (click on the thumbnail to enlarge)...
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I hope you're having a wonderful start to 2010--just three more weeks or so until I naturally write the correct year when I'm dating something!
p.s. I do love how the holidays live on a bit in blogland with everyone's show and tell debrief, don't you? And if you in fact don't, you might want to skip my next few posts as I'm sure that's what I'll be up to too :)...