Weekend Thought : Your 12 Stories

I was thinking the same thing--some of the 12 I initially came up with would change throughout the years. OTOH, some of them would remain. Recently I did a "Favorites" layout, including a 9-square grid of 9 photos of what my favorite things are right now. http://www.bigpicturescrapbooking.com/gallery/cache/24544/FavoritesLO-web-rev_0.jpg
This post makes me wonder what I'd do with 12 more squares in my grid.....

What a great question. I might pose this to my scrap club as an assignment for our next crop! I could even see this as a '12 things' layout, to be revisited from time to time. Oh, the possibilities!!!
I'm thinking about my answers right now...

I'd want to share the majesty of being alive. I'd want to show how deeply connections can be rooted, and how people are drawn together by the simplest of things. I'd want to record how even the most irretractable mistake is better than not living fully. I'd want to share the blessings I have in my friends and family. I'd also want a lot of photos of my dog in there, too.

I would try to incorporate a lot onto a page so might concentrate on comparisons and contrasts for many of them:
1. All the places I've lived
2. My spiritual heritage
3. Important things I learned from my parents
4. My brother and sister
5. Love at first sight - The story of me and DH
6. Significant moments with our son
7. Significant moments with our daughter
8. Baby pictures of all 5 grandkids
9. "Hospitals of the World Tour"
10.The travels of a lifetime
11.How I've used Gods' gifts/talents
12.Looking forward to the next chapter/projections for retirement

WOW, what a question. I will have to think on that.

1. My childhood memories
2. My dad and me
3. My husband and how we met (incratible storie)
4. My son
5. My daughter
6. My cat
7. My goals in life
8. My believes
9. My hopes
10.My kids school
11.My kids activities
12.Just Life,Just Love ,Just Enjoy what you have. Moments

wow, this was certainly interesting to think about!
1.My childhood
2.My teenage years
3.My last year of high school
4.My family
5.My first year of university
6.My wedding (happening in 21 days!! :D )
7.Being a mom (hasn't happened yet,but soon hopefully!)
8.My best friend
9.My fiance
10.My grandfather who passed away when I was seven
11.My cat
12.My university graduation (still 4 years away :( )

Lots to think about! I know one thing for sure and thats that pages 1-12 would be all about family.
I love reading through everyones lists. Great ideas!

I love "the majesty of being alive." Great thoughts here.

1. about the family I grew up in
2. about my wedding
3. about our son Maikel
4. about our daughter Sabine
5. about her twinsister Carlijn
6. an extra page for Carlijn since she was with us for only 8 weeks
7. about our daughter Anouk
8. about my student years
9. about my working career
10. about the journey I made discovering who I am
11. about the places we lived in over the years
12. about my dreams for the future

Cool question! Here you go:
1. Watching Wonderama and Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo as a young child.
2. Going door to door in my new neighborhood and introducing myself: "Hi, my name is Krys. Do you have a little girl for me to play with?"
3. Having my appendix out in 3rd grade, including wheelchair races in the hospital.
4. Leaving high school one year early to go to college one year early, meeting my best friend Chris, and saying goodbye to him at the end of the year.
5. The music of Dan Fogelberg, and what his lyrics mean to me.
6. Losing my dad, my father-in-law, and my mother-in-law WAY too soon.
7. My husband.
8. Clint Eastwood.
9. My sisters.
10. My friendship with my sister-in-law.
11. My mother-in-law's illness and eventual death. She left us WAY too soon!
12. Volunteering at the local elementary school as a reader to one of the first grade classes.

1. childhood memories
2. Mom
3. my son
4. my daughter
5. family history
6. college
7. teaching
8. pets
9. vacations
10. best friends
11. my town
12. what I like right now

Goodness, brilliant question, Ali. Am going to have a think but definitely two of my 12 would be about the people that have impacted my life the most and another about moments that changed the course of my life. I guess the others would include things such as 'what i believe', but I need to put my thinking cap on about this one. It'll make a GREAT 'mini' book - can't wait to get started. As ever, thanks for the inspiration!

is very hard to answer...
Lets see what i can do...
1 - My music
2 - My mp3 player
3 - My feets
3 - My nail colors
4 - Gym
5 - My calopsitas
6 - My parents
7 - My Grandpa
8 - My husband
9 - My travels
10 - My friends child
11 - My shoes
12 - My scraproom
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twelve stories. I smell a workshop, ali! :-)
1. my parents
2. my siblings
3. my husband, pre parenthood
4. yself, preparenthood,
5.my daughter-
6. my loves, my fvorites (books,music, movies, people who have influenced me)
7. this i believe
8. her legacy (gifts she was born with gifts we gave her through her history)
9 my job ?maybe
10. advice to her- if someday comes, kind of thing
11. my childhood
12. my friends

I had time to actually sit down and go through some of these and found yours -- WOW - what a profound list!!
It is amazing how grandparents have alot of influence in our lives. You are a very strong and determined person!!

Can't decide between: playing in the water sprinkler and my sandbox that my dad built for my brother and I OR, going to our lake house every weekend with my dad's family. Both are wonderful memories

Hi Lisa
What a fantastic idea. Thanks for sharing - be sure to post your finished product somewhere - it would be great to have a look at.

Ali, this is a great topic that generates thinking and on a Saturday... Initially, I thought 12, gosh that is too many I'll never be able to make a list of 12 layouts that described my life. Then, I've had to narrow my list maybe because I'm getting old! I have so many wonderful stories to tell with photos and without photos. So, at this moment this is my list
of layouts
1. Me at each decade of my life and how I defined myself during these time frames
2. I am my mother's daughter- this contains great stories and some not so great
3. My greatest accomplishments-my son and my daughter
4. MY incredible beautiful granddaughters
5. My traveling experiences with friends, family and husband
6. Lessons I learned being a Mom and being an adult daughter
7. My spirituality
8. My loving relationships with my English Bulldogs and my compassion for all beings/souls that cannot speak for themselves
9. Nature-photography cannot separate them
10.My childhood stories/pictures from my summers in a tiny southern Louisiana town with my grandparents and my cousins
11.Laughter- laughter is jogging for the soul
12.My collection of my mother's, grandmother's life in stories and pictures and how I fit in so well and with such pride.
Now I am ready for more! Thanks Ali,
Marilyn

Great question! Very thought provoking! I'm going to try this. What a way to get the creative juices flowing!

1.My childhood years.
2.The homes I've lived in.
3.Growing up in Wisconsin.
4.High School Years.
5.College Days.
6.Our Wedding.
7. Our first few years.
8. Our children.
9. Our Home.
10. Our favorite Vacations.
11. Favorite Holiday Memories.
12. What I would want you to know, if I wasn't here to tell you.

Super Duper ideas. I just printed them all out to help give me ideas for pages. Thanks all. Hope no one minds... :) I've been in a scraping slump lately.
Amy

HI Ali,
Wow, this is a hard question that I have been thinking about for the past day or so. What moments have defined my life?...I think, for me, it wouldn't be anything so big as graduating from university or my family but it would be small flashes of points in my past. Things like being in fourth grade and waking up to hear my Mom come home from working her third job or being in sixth grade and having my first cat, Monster, die of a stroke.
Even though these are tiny pieces of my past, they influenced me more than some of the big "events". For these 12 pages I would have to create pages filled with words, no photos, no ribbons, no buttons...just the stories themselves.

I have my list :) I can't wait to see what you do with this Ali :) :)

1. becoming a mother to my son
2. career in journalism first and graphic design/photography later
3. my creative passions: sewing, quilting, art, photography, scrapbooking, needlework
4. my late-in-life love story (unique!)
5. being a grandmother
6. teaching college journalism during Viet Nam war era
7. having my own business
8. being a beta tester for one of the first desktop publishing systems and the first MacIntosh computer
9. my friends (incidentally, I'm working on an album right now about my friends)
10. my pets
11. finding the Flint Hills and coming home to the prairie
12. rediscovering myself