Project Life Tuesday: Week 3

I spent a lot of my time today choosing pictures to print for the kids Project Life albums. Logan took this picture of me.

I did finish the journal cards for Sophie's first month.

Trying to work within the limits of the pockets is definitely stretching my creativity. I guess that's why I generally use large, blank pages for layouts. But I did find that some photos worked to just cut them in half and put each half into a smaller pocket.

I used the arrow stickers from the kit to direct the writing to the specific photos.

Meal Plan January 23

Check out more menus at Organizing Junkie.

Here's what we had the last 2 weeks.
Monday: Chicken Boxed Meal



Tuesday: Fish and Veggies

Wednesday: Sessler Salads

Thursday: Meatloaf and Potatoes

Friday: Crockpot Pot Roast

Saturday: Dinner Out at Chinese New Year Celebration

Sunday: Kids and I are out-of-town so we had hotdogs over the bonfire at my parents place.

Monday: Pizza (We got back into town too late to fix something so we went to Cici's.)


Tuesday: Homemade Gourmet Panko Parmesan Chicken Casserole

Wednesday: Soup and Quesodillas

Thursday: Tacos and Burritos with Rice (I added burritos since the kids have been boycotting tacos lately, but of course they ate the tacos and asked for more.)

Friday: Dinner out at Chapps (burgers, salad, and chicken strips)

Saturday: Chinese Chicken Stir-Fry

Sunday: Frozen Pizza (I was gone during the afternoon and wasn't very hungry so we just did a pizza for the kids.)




Here's the plan for the next week or so:



Monday: Onion Butt Chicken

Tuesday: Breakfast for Dinner

Wednesday: Sessler Salads

Thursday: Eckrich Sausage

Friday: Fish & Veggies

Saturday: Chinese New Year Dinner Celebration

Sunday: Dinner out (we'll be at the Stockyards so we'll probably eat there)

Monday: Box Meal

Tuesday: Chicken Alfredo

Wednesday: Pizza

Thursday: Enchiladas

Friday: Homemade Gourmet Crockpot Meal

Saturday: ??

Sunday: Superbowl Goodies

Visiting the Grandparents

The kids and I went to East Texas to visit Maw Susan and Paw Briggs over the long weekend (MLK Day). The place they are living is really peaceful, with several acres and a wooded lot. Logan and Matthew spent most of the time collecting trees limbs and sticks for kindling on the bonfire. There are cows and horses next door and the little girls enjoyed watching them.

We had hot dogs for dinner (cooked over the fire) and smores for dessert. Logan like getting to roast the marshmallows.

The boys would gather the sticks in the wagon and wheelbarrow and then dump them in a pile near the fire.

Paw Briggs very graciously watched the kids so Mom, Kelly and I could go see "A Joyful Noise" at the movies. We had a great weekend, just wish Dad Paul could have come with us.

Project Life Tuesday: Week 2

So, I have started to put my stuff back into the dining room hutch. Hopefully next week it will be filled again.

I pulled out my Project Life boxes for the kids. I had started them last year, with the expectation to do a couple of pages for each month. I had already done January for Logan, and had printed pictures for Sophie's first month.

So for this first week, I worked on Sophie's album. One thing I learned is that Logan's journal cards can be used either horizontally or vertically but the ones in Sophie's kit really only work vertically. I have 2 different layout design pages and had planned to mix them up in each album, but it looks like I'll be sticking with just one for Sophie's album.

Here's the Title Page layout for Sophie's album.




Here are some pictures of Logan's first few layouts.

I used one of the folded journal cards to write about Logan's surgery. It allowed me to journal more without taking up as much space.

I am including an 8.5 by 11 page to put artwork in.



I love these calendar cards, but wished Sophie's kit also had them.

I spent part of my time getting a little more organized so that it would be easy to pull these out and work on even if I just had a little bit of time. Everything I need is kept in the box (except tape runner and paper cutter). The large plastic envelope is for the artwork once I pull it down from being displayed. The one criteria is that it has to fit in the 8.55 by 11 page. (I have a box for larger artwork that I want to keep for each child.)