A Little Breather....

First off, Happy New Year. Wow... 2014.  I feel really good about this year. Maybe it's the even number...

I'm not sure if my stay at home mum status has turned me into a slow poke. I don't know if I've been away from the work force long enough, that I've actually forgotten how to be efficient at managing my time. I don't seem to be able to manage my  as well as I once did. The very  idea of holding down a full time job, and doing this job of parenting, scares the dickens out of me. I have posted before, about how grateful I am to have the opportunity to stay at home. I feel truly blessed and thankful that at this point in my life, my job description is home maker. You would think, that I'd have scads of time, especially with my kids both in school full time. But I don't seem to have scads of time. I never seem to have enough time. Ever. I don't know how some of my girlfriends fit work into their busy schedules. But seriously, kudos to them, you guys are amazing.

Does the utter lack of time sound familiar to anyone else? As we headed towards Christmas, I thought, I need to do this, I need to do that. I made lists of things I wanted to conquer over the holidays.  Projects I wanted to finish up. Unfinished things such as my week in the life, from back in September... I thought I will have 2 glorious weeks that I don't have to worry about a schedule. I could stay up a bit later. I was pretty positive that I would get all sorts of things accomplished. [Finish our Disneyland album, for example, I only have 2 more pages, and then it will be complete] and yes... We did Disneyland in 2011...

I'm so envious of how people find time to scrapbook and blog and instagram... And blog. And keep current. And do multiple projects. And blog... I want to do better, but I just can't seem to make all the hours in my day cooperate.  What falls by the wayside the most, is this blog. I have good intentions, but just can't seem to find the time.

Now, my list of things to do, still remains a list of things to do. A bit disappointing. But what I did do was keep up to date on my December Daily Album. This year I printed pictures off at home. I was pleased with the quality, but around day 17, I ran out of ink in my printer. So, I then sent pictures out to be printed. I have to pick up the pictures for the last few days up to Christmas and put the final touches on the pages, and then my DD for 2013 will be complete. Complete!! Whoop-whoop. I have posted up to Day 21 on the Studio Calico gallery. You can find my pages by clicking here. They're all together.

Also, I am currently working on Week 52 of my project life book. So I would say that's pretty successful. I still have to finish my title page and now week 1 for the new year. Will I be doing project life again this year? Oh yes. Indeed I will be. I just love, love, love this avenue of storytelling and memory keeping.  Can't say enough good things about it. I am considering a slightly different process this year though... Though I haven't decided exactly what that will look like yet. I'm toying with the idea of going completely digital, and then having a 'photo book' made at the end of the year... I'm considering doing a 1 page 12x12 spread per week rather than 2 pages. I guess if I have weeks with more info, I can be flexible and add more pages if I want to. I want to carry on, but I also want to simplify. So, I'm going to try a few things, play it by ear, and decide. Because I can do this however I want...

I am really missing the traditional paper scrapbooking. I really enjoyed doing this years DD album the traditional way, for the most part. So I want to dabble with paper again. And continue with digital stuff as well. I love it all.

Any way, that's where I'm at. Just thought I'd share.