Holiday In Hand Day 2 and 3 assignments

DAY 2
The Prompt Pages. "These little beauties are designed to hang or stand somewhere in your home where you'll see them every day, to provide you with ideas for capturing the stories of THIS holiday, and also to connect to your stories of holidays past. It's time to think of a way to display your beautiful prompt cards through the month of December. "

Well, I got mine printed and for now, they are clipped to an old picture frame but I think that will change. 

DAY 3
"As promised, here is a list of some activities you can incorporate into your December as you celebrate with your family!"
Some of  the ideas I like are:
Put up the Christmas tree, or add an ornament to it. (I'll probably put the tree up Thanksgiving weekend.)
Get my Christmas Cards ready to go.
Take and edit my Christmas photos. (Ryan is done!)
Visit a local light display.
Play your favorite christmas song (don't be afraid to sing it at the top of my lungs!)
Have a fondue night! chocolate and cheese dipped goodies.
Visit some of the spectacular holiday decorations in your town - these might be a town square, the mall, main street, or a private home
Adopt a child or family.
Volunteer!
Get in touch--call, write a letter, email, send a card--with a friend or relative whom you haven't heard from in a long time.

Holiday In Hand

A little while ago, I received an invitation from http://www.jessicasprague.com/ to take part in a free class-Holiday in Hand.  Jessica stated: "My goal in this class is to help you refocus on what matters most to you in your own holiday celebrations as you go through them this year, and also to help you create an album for recording your stories of holidays past."
Since I've heard such good things about her classes (and this one is free) I decided to give it a try.  As usual, I'm running behind, but here's to getting started!

Day 1: Refocus on Holiday Values

Assignment 1 is to "Write your Values & Goals" So here are mine!
a.  Get organized: Every year, I end up with too many presents for someone and not enough for others, I find Christmas items up until Easter, etc.
This year, I'd like to avoid that!
b.  Remember that it isn't going to be a storybook Christmas or one destined to grace the pages of a magazine.  But it will be ours and full of love and memories.
c.  Relax- I don't have to do it all.
d. Put things away in an organized fashion so that next year starts out calmer.
e. Document this holiday and some of the ones from the past- whether it be in scrapbook pages, photographs, stories or a combination of all three.

Assignment 2: Commit. Find a way to include at least 20 minutes of recording/writing/photographing/savoring/printing/gluing/scrapbooking/remembering/slowing down EVERY DAY in December.
Okay, I can do this!

Assignment 3: Organize. This assignment is a bonus and how fortuitous that it happens to be one of my goals!

2009 11 15 I hate photos of me- but here's one for the record.

2009 11 16 Sourdough Bread, good (expensive) cheddar cheese, asparagus, and pears in a brown sugar cream sauce.

2009 11 17 I went past Acme lake and saw the ducks- first time I'd seen them there. This big white one seems like she's in charge!

2009 11 18 Sunset on the ridge above Wilpen

2009 11 19 Tilapia cooked in orange juice and french fries.

2009 11 20 Ryan fast asleep.  The Pound Puppy was his dad's.

2009 11 21 I just couldn't pick a favorite between these two! Look at that grin in the first one and the second- well, read the shirt!

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2009 11 09 Morrow Road

This road is near the intersection of Route 30 and the Parkway in Pittsburgh.  Morrow was my great-grandmother's maiden name. She was Sierra Nevada Morrow, daughter of George Van Eman and Margaret Ann McConahy Morrow.

2009 11 10 Library window celebrating the local football team and naming the football player of the week.

2009 11 11 I picked Peyton up at his friend, Lucas' house today. We went to Burger King for lunch. Then he and I went to see this movie. Then we went to Barnes and Nobles and bought some books before I took him home.

2009 11 12 I stopped to drop off some diapers for Ryan and got this photo of him with Chance.

2009 11 13 Tufted titmouse eating from the suet feeder.

2009 11 14 Peyton is concentrating on his Geomag's.

November Project 365

I'm way behind- last week, I was so sick that just getting home and back to bed was tough! I did manage to get photos! Here's the first few days of November!

(Day 305) 1 November 2009 I think I may have been delirious the day I took tried to take this picture of the moon- to be fair I was taking it out the window while I was driving!

(Day 306) 2 November 2009 I was sicker than a dog! (and to make matters worse, the dog was sick too!

(Day 307) 3 November 2009 Diana Gabaldon's new book, Echoes in the Bone. 

“You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” -Paul Sweeney

and that's how I feel at the end of Diana Gabaldon's books- I find myself reading slower and slower-trying to make the book last, afraid it will end, knowing it will be months or years before the next one is available.

(Day 308) 4 November 2009 My new favorite place to be: Facebook.

(Day 309) 5 November 2009 Rajah -ain't she sweet!

(Day 310) 2009 11 06 Some of the birds that hang out in my living room.

(Day 311) 2009 11 07 My chickadee ornament.

(Day 312) 2009 11 08 I didn't take this photo - stole it from her Facebook page. But I had to post it for today's pic- my baby sister turned 40 years old today!

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