Project 365

This year as I embark on some new goals, one thing I have decided to do is Project 365. Some people make a scrapbook--I don't know if I will do a scrapbook or not, but I am going to take a picture everyday of 2009. One of my personal goals is to do a better job at organizing and documenting life for my kids. Another goal is to focus on photography. I am getting a "good camera" and I want to become a good photographer. Project 365 fits nicely with these two goals.

I also like sharing bits and pieces of our lives with friends and family. So here goes...

Day 9
I just crave mornings like this. I got up and got A & B off to school. C slept in. I did a load of laundry (laundry rules my life) and then read J a book. Had breakfast at 10 a.m. The kids played with stickers while I read the news online (notice they actually have space on the table to work on.) Then watched A Christmas Story--again. Had ham sandwiches and hot chocolate for lunch. I went through some medical bills while watching Law and Order on TNT while C & J played good guy/bad guy with his transformer and her princess doll. It was a morning made in heaven.

Day 8
Mike had some friends over to watch the BCS game. I had these red and green white chocolate chips left from Christmas, so I made some chocolate chip cookies.

Day 7

Craft room organization. I will show more pictures later, but I am almost done organizing it--one junk box to go. They are not the prettiest things, but I just love these plastic totes. I like being able to see what's inside them. I have assessed that my organizational style for my craft room has to be open organization. That means that it looks a little more junky, but will be more functional for me. I tried closed storage a while ago, and I just didn't like it.

Day 6

The kids went back to school on Monday. I didn't want it the Christmas break to come to an end. For the most part, I really like them being at home and I miss them a lot when they are at school. Also, the babies miss Bev a lot when she is at school. Chrisian asked when Bev was going to be home several times the first day back. Here Andrew is enjoying his breakfast of champions--Marshmallow Mateys--with his Legos magazine and the remote control.

Day 5

Putting my little laborers to work on the baseboards. When there are lots of chores to do Andrew and Bev still like to call me Miss Hannigan.

Day 4

Our upstairs furnace has been broken. Jessie and Kiki were playing upstairs. I was doing laundry. She came to me and asked for hot chocolate and the fireplace--sad, huh? She sat in front of the fireplace for quite a while. (Notice Hello Kitty there too.)

Day 3

Jessie is such a skinny minnie. She has a lot of stretch pants, but needed a pair of jeans. Thank goodness my two favorite stores for kids clothes (Target and Osh Kosh) have pants with adjustable waistbands.

Day 2

I am in denial about December being over. I normally cannot wait to get the trees down and get things cleaned up. This year, however, I didn't want it to come down. I did want the kids to help, so we finally took the tree down on January 2.

Day 1

Bev is loving her easel. She is also loving writing poems.