Weekend Thought : Your 12 Stories

* My family--my parents, my brothers, their families.
* My childhood
* High School
* College
* Our wedding
* My brother's death
* My Grandma & Grandpa Smith
* The family I received when I married my husband
* Our nieces and nephews
* My husband
* Our foster son
* Our foster daughter
xoxo,
Becca

Contemplating...It could take a while...

Hmmm
1. My parents & sibs
2. My husband & children
3. My grandchildren
4. Music
5. Places I've been
6. Things I love
I'm figuring that each of these would need at least a 2 page layout, so that would be my 12!

I've been thinking about it since I posted...still thinking.

Okay...
1. elementary days
2. highschool days
3. college days
4. first teaching job
5. getting married
6. coming to america
7. living in CA
8. living in NY
9. living in FL
10. married life
11. first home
12. life lesson/s
I think I will scrap all these list. Thank you!

What a great challenge !
1. my childhood in a small village, how times have changed since then
2. my teenage years hobby horseriding and having to give it up when I started working
3. my teenage years friends
4. meeting my husband of 30 years of marriage when we were just 15 years old
5. how my job as stewardess with Deutsche Lufthansa took me all around the world
6. all the homes and houses I lived in
7. how I got to have 4 kids and only one was planned
8. the wonderful life we had with the neighborhoud friends
9. how I love charity work
10. how scrapbooking changed my life
11. how my husband died of cancer in january of this year
12. how I fear I will fail the rest of my life alone with the kids

1. My childhood, the good, the bad and the ugly.
2. My mother and why I forgive her and am trying to love her.
3. Lessons learned the hard way.
4. My Papa, my rock ... what a joy and inspiration he was to me. Words to live by, by Papa!
5. Meeting my Daniel, and knowing I was not going to be a Nun any longer.
6. Our relationship and how we make it so wonderful!
7. Abigail our daughter and what motherhood means to me.
8. Things I want Abbey to know about life.
9. My sisters and our bond.
10. The people I loved, respected and admired.
11. A mommy and a daughter page of just us doing the things we love to do.
12. Things I treasure.

12 Things that define/defined me.MMMM, Maybe.
1. Me - Birth to 10yrs (my childhood in Africa)
2. Me - 11yrs to 20years (My teens in Australia)
3. The female line (the inspirational women in my family)
4. My parents - (what more needs to be said everyone is influenced by their parents in some way)
5. My manifesto - (what I believe in)
6. My life choices - (the good and the bad)
7. My marriage - (from engagement to now)
8. My first child - (thoughts and feelings from pregnancy to now)
9. My second child - (as above)
10. My career - (the way it evolved and my love for it)
11. My Friends - (from my oldest friend to my other sisters of my heart)
12. The future - (my goals)

1. Me as a kid.
2. College years.
3. Wedding.
4. Chad and I before kids.
5. Pregnancy/Becoming a parent (both times).
6. Being a parent of a tween (son).
7. Me through the years.
As I type this list I'm wondering why I haven't already created these layouts.
8. My love of running.
9. A family tree/heritage type layout.
10. High school
11. My, what some might call, obsession with social networking.
12. Favorite music that includes a CD.

WOW these lists are amazing!
Mine would be-
1. My family history (where I'm from)
2. Immigrating to the USA
3. Me and my sisters
4. Growing up in Oregon
5. Things I learned from my parents
6. Falling in Love with my husband
7. My husband and why he is the best ever
8. Places I have traveled to
9. Our daughter and things I wish for her
10. What family means to me
11. A day in the life
12. What I believe
Man, 12 seemed like a lot when I started, but it isn't enough. If/when we have more children this list will have to grow with them. Oh, and these are all double pages because I can't tell these stories on just one page.

My list is that of others. I am just so inspired I want to actually get out there and create.... NOW!

Yes! Such a great idea! I read all the lists and am quite inspired to do more layouts!
I would say my top 12 are:
1-4: My college scrapbooks. There are a lot of firsts and lasts in those four books (I have one for every year).
5: Traditions like my mom's birthday at a Hibachi restaurant every year
6: Moving in with my boyfriend and creating a Home, not an apartment.
7: My Bailey! (shih tzu)
8: Christmas/Thanksgiving - it alternates every year with our families
9: Fourth of July in Pittsburgh (another tradition)
10: Pieces of ME (a layout from a journaling prompt that leaves a lot of my soul on the page)
11: Being an Aunt for the first time - this has yet to be scrapped, but there is a little baby in my Sister-In-Law's belly.
12: THE SAME AS 11 - I JUST FOUND OUT MY OTHER BROTHER AND SIL ARE PREGNANT, TOO!
Thanks for all the inspiration, Ladies, to start scrapping once again!

12 Stories to document:
1. My marriage to my very best friend
2. Daughter #1
3. Daughter #2
4. Son
5. My parents
6. My In-laws
7. Our Grandparents
8. My very newborn (this past Tuesday)Granddaughter-our
first grandchild
9. Friends
10. My home
11. My Siblings
12. My Work

WOW. What an wonderful question.
Ok, here I go:
1. my relationship with Evan
2. my family
3. my relationship with Jesus
4. my community group
5. why I want to be a teacher
6. my best friends from high school
7. my favorite music
8. my favorite books
9. the kind of home & family i want to have in the future
10. why i want to be a mom
11. hopes and fears
12. LOVE--why it is my favorite word and why I think it's the most important thing in the world
Hmm. I'm a little dissatisfied with this list. I have to think about this!

And in not certain order:
1. my collections
2. my hobbies
3. my childhood
4. my dreams
5. my faith
6. my husband
7. my kids
8. my bucket-list
9. my job(s)
10. my random thoughts/opinions
11. my not-so-good qualities
12. favorite quotes

1+2: Why we are who we are (childhood stories, etc.) for myself and my husband
3: The story of US, wedding etc.
4 and up: Hopefully yet to come ! :)
Alicia

1. Our journey as a couple
2. My hobbies
3. my husband's hobbies
4. Brayden
5. Jaxson
6,7,8,9. What we love about each season (page for each one)
10. Daily routine
11. Magnum(our dog)
12. my girlfriends

My wedding
Birth of our son
Birth of our daughter
Choosing to become Catholic at age 10
My college graduation, mid 30's then graduate degree
Travel with my husband
Favorite memory of growing up in South America
My Parents
Document Today...lol, who did I learn that from???
My Grandchildren
First draft...thanks for asking,
Catherine

12 Scrapbook memories that would define my life, has certainly got me to thinking...
1. Summers at Hermit Island, camping & just going to the beach
2. Spending time at my Nana & Grampa's camp on Tacoma Lake with cousins.
3. Age 21-30 (so much of it made me who I am today)
4. Carrabassett Valley, Maine Age 30-35 (the life I was sure I wanted to live, the air I wanted to wake up every morning and smell)
5. Running into my husband in the grocery store after 10 years of not seeing him, he was going through a divorce and I wanted a life in the Valley, my how true love can change your plans...today I am married and still in Brunswick
6. Our Wedding!!!
7. My Dad's fall rendering him a quadriplegic has taught me what life is worth and what love is supposed to be, watching my amazing Mom take care of him selflessly dropping her whole life to do it. (this is how I knew I loved Aaron, I would do the same for him)
8. Aaron's children (my "bonus" children) Madison age 8 and Gavin age 4
9., 10. 11. & 12 are still to come :)

I read this post yesterday and it took me a full day to come up with a list of 12. There are so many more, and so many of these that could be multiple pages even complete books but here goes:
1. Childhood - grew up a Navy brat, moving every three years and what it taught me.
2. My Dad
3. My Husband
4. Our Story
5. Our Loss - More about losing a child, the grief, the strength and the love that grows put the pain that stays.
6. Our daughter - what it means to have another child after loosing a child.
7. My wishes and dreams for our daughter
8. My strenths and weaknesses
9. What makes me Laugh
10. What makes me cry
11. Today. The here and now
12. My "bucket list". I started this list a few years ago after loosing our son. So maybe a layout as a check list so to speak.
I keep a journal, and have for many years I don't go back and read them often, so it will be interesting to go back and pull these out to get my journaling and thoughts for each page.

ME TOO. This could very well be the most *tricky* and *coolest* challenge you've provided yet. NICE WORK!

These would be mine:
My colledge story and how it led me to my current calling, running a home for pregnant and parenting un-wed teens.
My husbands and i's story.
My children's story
My belief's
My husbands military story and how it has impacted our family
Our family pets
Our homes
Family trips
People who have had a great impact on me

#5 should read: About losing a child, the grief, the strength and the love that grows, BUT the pain that stays.

Such a profound question! It's fun to look at everyone's lists, but for me the more profound thing is, have I scrapbooked the layouts that tell my most important stories? The main thing that comes to mind is how I met my husband and our love story. It seems I never get to this because I lack pictures... (he really hates having his picture taken) but really that's just an excuse!

My 12 layouts would be:
1. Tidbits from my childhood
2. My husband - how we met and why I'm totally in love with him.
3 - 5. A page for each of my children and what they have taught me, how they have made me a better person.
6. My beliefs and values
7. An ordinary day in my life
8. Places I've lived
9. My hobbies and talents
10. My likes/dislikes (ex: scrapping/laundry)
11. My strengths/weaknesses (ex:listening/putting things off)
12. My goals and dreams