Monday, January 8, 2018

New Year, New Layout

Decorations are down. Christmas tree is put away. My house is finally back to normal. The temperatures went from sub-zero [-31 degrees celsius on New Years Eve] to the last few days a high of +8. Snow is melting, the birds are singing. A new year lay ahead, I even re-did my blog header! It's needed a revamp for awhile. I thought I should have recent photos. After all, Mason is taller than I am and Madelyn is shooting up as well. 

Today, the kids are back to school. 

I'm not going to lie, this mornings 6:00 am alarm came as a shock, but man-oh-man, did we have a nice relaxing break. I LOVE that the kids were in school until the 21st. It's been awhile. It seems like the last few years they get that pre Christmas week off school [when let's be honest, we're all trying to buy and wrap last minute gifts, and it's just not convenient to have them at home] This year, I had my last shopping day on the 18th or 19th, wrapped gifts on the 20th. Wrapped last minute gifts on the 21st. Had my kids home for a few days, then it was Christmas. 

Perfection. 

Then all that time, to just 'be' until heading back to school today.

I feel like we're all heading into the next few months, well rested. And the next few months are indeed going to be busy. The calendar says so...

In my last post, I shared December 2017 template freebie from Sahlin Studio. Slightly tardy, and for that I apologize. I promised I would share this months template freebie, with lots of time to spare, so as promised, here it is:


This template is a free download for the month of January. Download it here.

The photos I took were not great quality. It was dark when I took them [obviously, it was midnight after all] and in colour they have that creepy glow that screams WINTER. But we did have fun, and I knew I wanted to document our New Years spent together. I also knew, that this may very well be one of the last NYE's we celebrate as a four-some. My kids aren't going to want to ring in the new year with their parents forever...

It's a quick and easy page, with a some fun photos and some heartfelt journaling. I think my family is pretty awesome. 

The following Sahlin Studio product was used: 


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