Showing posts with label Facebook Posts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook Posts. Show all posts
10.28.2014
Record keeping, again
I'm going to (again) be updating the blog with some of my random facebook posts & photos from the past year so that I can make my blurb book out of the blog. A few weeks ago I came across a company that *finally* caught on, and created a program to make a book out of your facebook feed! Finally!!! But I already have this one going, and I have been really thinking about what I post on facebook and my reasons for posting, or the implications of it at least. So it hasn't been incredibly active lately. I have phases of more posting, but I have been in quiet a long phase of resistance lately. Resisting it feels right, actually. But it's a great record of funny things the kids have said, photos, milestones, etc-- so this is my little record-keeping "scrapbooking" project. Transferring snippets back here again.
11.23.2013
11.10.2013
The LOST lost tooth
My boy lost his first tooth! And then, he LOST it! I never even got to see it! He's so cute & excited- we threw together a last-minute note asking the tooth fairy to still come
11.05.2013
boy mom problems
Juggling coffee, keys & sword during today's drop-off
P.S. I read this today and it made me excited to pick them up from school today just to listen to their little voices calling me mommy.
11.04.2013
Hey, that's weird! It's been almost a year since I've posted anything!
Ha!! {{of course, those first three words are spoken with utmost sarcasm! the same tone in which my husband says, "That's weird!" every time I tell him I lost my phone. again.}}
Last night I decided that I have something new to add to my bucket list, but then I realized that I don't have one... And then I remembered that one time I entered a giveaway by posting a {spur of the moment} bucket-list on my {latent} blog.
So I came here to add #16. See the Northern Lights~*
{{yes!!!! I must see them!!!}}
There, added.
But then, I moseyed on over to some of my old favorite blogs... Wasted some time while sipping coffee (divine), read some sweet stories & thought-provoking posts, felt distances shorten briefly as I enjoyed photos of friends' memory-making... and then there was the heart-tugging and the longing to pause time as I scrolled over the pictures of all of our children growing too fast. It reminded me of why I love this little space so much!
I've always been a memory-capturer, journaler, scrapbooker-- in fact, I was just recently reminiscing about my first scrapbook. My favorite page is the one with a little hair carefully encapsulated between plastic and labeled with an arrow & 8-year-old script: "bobcat hair".
I specifically remember walking up to the front of the amphitheater at the Wild Animal Park after the Wild Cat show, and I remember the thrill when I found the long, wiry 'bobcat hair' stuck to the log that the feline perched on just moments earlier. I protected that specimen for the rest of our entire excursion, and was so excited to put it in my scrapbook!
((The runner-up is few pages later, where there is a bird seed with a few dried sprouts bursting from it. Again, carefully labeled: "this was growing in the bird dish".)) I laugh out loud every time I happen to pull out that old album during family visits.
But I don't do much memory capturing, journaling or scrapbooking anymore, even though it's part of what makes me me. I've always needed to create. My other titles have kept me busy: full-time Momma to 3 active boys, part-time RN, full-time homemaker, and everything that goes along with that (owie-kisser, tantrum-calmer, but also tantrum-thrower sometimes (ha!), family taxi, tutor, cook, and a million others) ... I just don't journal or scrapbook anymore. ever. (And, honestly, I don't even charge my cameras anymore since we have phones with camera/video... I have really missed those crisp images, the zoom, and full-length videos!)
SO... There is a chance that I will stop letting facebook fulfill my journaling tendencies, and I will reach for my 'real' camera more often than my phone to capture some of these moments. I'm ready to indulge in some memory-capturing & creating! There you go, #17 on my bucket list! Maybe it will be through the blog, or actual scrapbooking, or Shutterfly. Maybe (hopefully) I will dance again or pick up some yarn & try my hand at that again... I'm ready to bring that little part of me back to life again!
ETA (edited to add): I realized that, for me, facebook has been a more accurate "journal" of our last few years... but it can't be made into a book the way a blog can be converted into a hardbound book ("Blurb Book"). ... And that has been a goal of mine for a while now... So because of all of the *huge* blog-gaps & un-scrapbooked time, I decided to sprinkle the blog with some of my old facebook updates & photos throughout the years. It may be confusing to read, since all my blog posts seem to be about how I never write on the blog (!) and now it will be full of posts! But at least I can have (with some regularity) little snapshots of the past few years in my book. (They are dated & filed chronologically, so the label will be the give-away. Any of the posts labeled "Facebook Post" is something that actually was copy/pasted.)
Last night I decided that I have something new to add to my bucket list, but then I realized that I don't have one... And then I remembered that one time I entered a giveaway by posting a {spur of the moment} bucket-list on my {latent} blog.
So I came here to add #16. See the Northern Lights~*
{{yes!!!! I must see them!!!}}
There, added.
But then, I moseyed on over to some of my old favorite blogs... Wasted some time while sipping coffee (divine), read some sweet stories & thought-provoking posts, felt distances shorten briefly as I enjoyed photos of friends' memory-making... and then there was the heart-tugging and the longing to pause time as I scrolled over the pictures of all of our children growing too fast. It reminded me of why I love this little space so much!
I've always been a memory-capturer, journaler, scrapbooker-- in fact, I was just recently reminiscing about my first scrapbook. My favorite page is the one with a little hair carefully encapsulated between plastic and labeled with an arrow & 8-year-old script: "bobcat hair".
I specifically remember walking up to the front of the amphitheater at the Wild Animal Park after the Wild Cat show, and I remember the thrill when I found the long, wiry 'bobcat hair' stuck to the log that the feline perched on just moments earlier. I protected that specimen for the rest of our entire excursion, and was so excited to put it in my scrapbook!
((The runner-up is few pages later, where there is a bird seed with a few dried sprouts bursting from it. Again, carefully labeled: "this was growing in the bird dish".)) I laugh out loud every time I happen to pull out that old album during family visits.
But I don't do much memory capturing, journaling or scrapbooking anymore, even though it's part of what makes me me. I've always needed to create. My other titles have kept me busy: full-time Momma to 3 active boys, part-time RN, full-time homemaker, and everything that goes along with that (owie-kisser, tantrum-calmer, but also tantrum-thrower sometimes (ha!), family taxi, tutor, cook, and a million others) ... I just don't journal or scrapbook anymore. ever. (And, honestly, I don't even charge my cameras anymore since we have phones with camera/video... I have really missed those crisp images, the zoom, and full-length videos!)
SO... There is a chance that I will stop letting facebook fulfill my journaling tendencies, and I will reach for my 'real' camera more often than my phone to capture some of these moments. I'm ready to indulge in some memory-capturing & creating! There you go, #17 on my bucket list! Maybe it will be through the blog, or actual scrapbooking, or Shutterfly. Maybe (hopefully) I will dance again or pick up some yarn & try my hand at that again... I'm ready to bring that little part of me back to life again!
ETA (edited to add): I realized that, for me, facebook has been a more accurate "journal" of our last few years... but it can't be made into a book the way a blog can be converted into a hardbound book ("Blurb Book"). ... And that has been a goal of mine for a while now... So because of all of the *huge* blog-gaps & un-scrapbooked time, I decided to sprinkle the blog with some of my old facebook updates & photos throughout the years. It may be confusing to read, since all my blog posts seem to be about how I never write on the blog (!) and now it will be full of posts! But at least I can have (with some regularity) little snapshots of the past few years in my book. (They are dated & filed chronologically, so the label will be the give-away. Any of the posts labeled "Facebook Post" is something that actually was copy/pasted.)
10.31.2013
10.30.2013
10.25.2013
We can never get this day back~* yesterday as I carved pumpkins with the boys I called Kevin outside to join us, because it hit me that we only have a small handful of Halloween pumpkin carving sessions before they are grown and I didn't want him (or myself!) to blink & miss it... Each holiday they are a bit older... Savoring this! Parenting is the most challenging and blessed honor on earth.
10.23.2013
We don't have a phone in our house, but we do have an old-school phone (with a cord!) in the garage for emergencies. We never use it. So today, as Andrew (4yr) and I were getting out of the car, that phone (randomly!) rang. Andrew heard it, and asked a few times, "What's that bell?" Giggling at the fact that Andrew has no idea that that 'bell' is what a normal phone ring sounds like! I feel old!! lol
10.16.2013
10.10.2013
10.09.2013
Enjoying some Miso Soup, hot tea, and FALL SCENTS!! We started Halloween decorating a few weeks ago, but yesterday's pumpkin shopping and today's rain have sealed the deal... fall is finally here!!! (for now... I hope it doesn't get hot again!) Nothing makes me happy like cool fall weather and the smell of sweet pumpkin-y scented candles/waxes/oils filling my home!
10.01.2013
9.26.2013
4 years ago I went my first women's Bible study. I knew nobody and I walked in (full of excitement & nerves) with my 3-year-old, 2-year-old and 1-month-old in tow. Some sweet years & friendships later, full of only excitement, gettin ready to start another study today! Reminiscing how I went from all those babies to today, all in school & going to study with NO kids in tow! Feels strange!
9.24.2013
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