Wow. It's been a while! But here I am! Being 28 weeks behind (!!!) is a little intimidating, but I know I can catch up. However, I feel like I keep saying that. Ha! Either way, I'm committed to seeing it through.
The other day when looking through photos to print for my kid's co-op class, Titus thanked me for documenting our life. Heart. Melt. I'm not the only one who loves looking back.
When I'm consistent in scrapbooking as the weeks go by, those photos that I see are linked to memories. I love that. When I get behind, I feel like some memories get a little lost along with whatever photo I took to document it. I'll keep saying it: I'm soooo thankful for the DayOne app. I document our days there and add a photo if I have one for that day. Then when I'm able to sit down and scrapbook, I have the stories to go with the photos. It's the best!
I haven't been in love with this year's theme - if you can even call it that. While I love simple and black and white, I've been feeling the need for a little spiffing up. Since I'm doing one week on one page instead of two, I don't have any extra blocks for paper. My only real option is adding it to the heading block. I'll at least start there and go back a few weeks to add paper to those headings. I'm also not 100% sold on one page for one week. Sometimes I just want the photos without much story on the actual photo. I miss having blocks for the stories. Sooo...I may make even more changes. I'll have to think about it a little more. It would mean kind of starting the year over again, but it's doable. I fall a little into a comparison trap of comparing myself to other scrapbookers that I admire. I love how they do things, how they take pictures, how they are creative. While I still want to be me, I still want to keep changing and making my layouts better and how I see them in my mind.
I love that if I decide to change things in a bigger way, it doesn't cost me anything but time since it's all done on the computer. That's another perk of digital scrapbooking. It's my fave!
