December Daily 2010 | Day Seventeen

i love that pirate boa! awesome!

That's a great misty morning shot with Santa Simon going off to school. So PNW!

Thanks for continuing to inspire us. I am thoroughly enjoying this daily documentation. And although I don't have kids at home anymore, each day seems to have its own story! How excited am i? Ok, so 2 days were full of winter storm photos, but it really affected our lives . . . people were snowed in and couldn't get to work! Then the big snow removal right outside our house! I loved getting the camera out and waving to the truck drivers!! LOL the 6x8 format is fun too! Thanks Ali!

I just love Simon! Anna, too, of course. Simon is close to my heart because I work with autistic kids...so challenging, but sooo rewarding. Great shot of him off to pajama day! Thank you so much for your daily inspiration, tips, all the great things you do for us! My kids are grown, but I'm still getting the stories in, there's always stories to be told. Bless you & your family this holiday season.

Oh !!! Kids have always amazing ideas ... I wonder why .... I am in holydays now, my girls too ... What will they do ??? Being princess in their castle, in the midle of our living room .... Yeah !!!!

Ali, you are truly amazing! I love seeing what you document, and I love that you make the time to do it! Inspiring!
Hope you are enjoying the holidays...it looks like you are! :)

LOVE your pajama day picture. LOVE.

looks like less and less people are keeping up with their December dails (that includes me of course)

Good Morning Ali! I have kept up with my album everyday and am really enjoying this year's DD. Thank You so much for inspiring so many people! Simon and Anna are adorable!

That is an awesome picture of him walking out to the bus!

You're PJ day photo belongs in a magazine! Love it.

Awesome shot :)

Makes you wish there was a P.J. day for grown ups :)

Awesome.. love the cluster words.. willhave to look for that next week. Loving all the photo's and pj day.. my daughter is waiting for that to happen at school. It looks so dark in the morning in the photo.. getting on the bus. have a great weekend.

Hey Ali!
I have noticed that you are doing a lot of your journaling either under the item on the page or as an addition to the page rather than in that little spot on the bottom by the number...I like that idea! More than anything because I love the fact that you are adding a little splash of color and whimsy with the paper you cut for that spot! Just wanted to let you know...I like! :)
Stacie

Wonderful wonderful photo's AND pages. Your album is once again so inspiring.

I finished last year's album last weekend, and started 2010 album at the same time. I am up to day 15 of the current year as of now (last night I finished more pages) and hope to get caught up this weekend. One thing that was clear to me is that even if I don't have time to make the pages daily, taking pictures every day (or almost every day) and keeping those pictures organized in folders for each day was very helpful to be able to get back and get the memories down on paper for the album. I am very glad I have taken the time to get these pages done. For me, it's priceless to be able to get back to previous Christmas memories and re-live the magic by the simple turn of a page. Thank you Ali for your ongoing inspiration! I love what you continue to do with your album every day!

Beautiful! I liked it very much, as Simon goes to school .. Very inspiring!

I'm sure this has probably already been asked but what size is the pic you print for the inside of the DD overlays, the pic of Simon catching the bus? I had to cut my pic down to size yesterday in Photoshop and remember the measurements werent an exact number, what size do you crop it at? Seems like it was something like 6.5"x3.? IDK! Thanks!

Yay! Caught up. I don't print at home so I keep running up to Walgreens - luckily it is close!

Hi Ali, only one more week till the big day. I can't believe how fast it's going. I'm loving my album more and more each day. This is such a fun page for you today, love how it's two stories together. Such a sweet picture of Simon in his PJ"S. Sam was excited on Thursday for his PJ day at school, of course I forgot to get a picture. But I might still journal about it. How cool you are with that Pirate boat, the kids must have really loved that. We somtimes make a cardboard house for our kids to play in and decorate, harder now that they are so big though. Thank you again for these wonderful stories and ideas.

The best surpriese for me this Christmas happened last night. My oldest daughter (21) who couldn't come home for Christmas surprised the heck out of us and walked in last night saying merry Christmas to us. We were sooooo happy to see her. She got the ok at her new job and they let her come home for 6 days, hooray!! So now my DD will get to have some pages about her in it. Wish I had a bigger book now, oh well it will be filled up that for sure. Hoping to catch up on the last few days tonight then will post them.
Happy Weekend everyone!