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As per yesterday’s post I am getting organized for my return to work and coming up with a few solutions which I think will help make life easier for our family through this transition time. These are things I have learnt through working previously- some things work and some don’t. The mornings for every household where both parents have to leave for work are generally CRAZY. And so to be able to create a bit or organization I wrote out a routine for our morning of what we have to get done and the time frame we have to do it. This will hopefully prevent my darling husband from saying “what do you want me to do” all morning!!!
I made this from an ordinary notebook the other day. I am going back to work on Monday after a few months off and so I am trying to get everything organized before I go back. I came up with the idea to create a communications book for the Nanna’s to write down what Flynn has been up to during the day. They both often write down Flynn’s daily adventures on a piece of paper and sometimes if I don’t get to see them in the afternoon if Simon gets home first so I don’t get to hear about Flynn’s day.
This is the front cover of the notebook- …READ MORE
I thought I would share a few recent layouts I have completed for my Family album. My style is really simple and classic. I don’t take forever to complete my layouts as I have a lot of photos to keep up to date with and I want to keep up to date with my scrapbooking and enjoy the process. I love that getting it done feeling and having the completed layouts in the albums. I tend to gravitate towards one pages spreads and multi photo layouts as I like to get as many photos on the page as I can!!!!
We had a much deserved break away this weekend and went to stay at a friends holiday house down south in Margaret River. It was a great relaxing getaway and I took a ton of photos. I have so much scrapbooking to catch up on now! Some beautiful beach views-
I have made an effort this year to make sure I scrapbook the everyday stuff and not just the family events like birthdays. And so these layouts are of our ever changing and growing garden. These will be great to look back on in a few years when the garden is not so new anymore.
These are the first bulbs I have planted and so I wanted to document their growth in our garden. I try and make an effort to journal on most of my pages now as well.
So you might have noticed from some of the recipes I have posted that I like to keep cooking simple but yummy. I am a busy working mum and don’t have a lot of time with everything else I have on to spend hours in the kitchen for one dinner/dessert. And so I multi task, cooking several dishes at once or making some quick cookies while dinner is cooking. The other night was so exception I was waiting on dinner to cook and so I made some quick cookies for a mothers group meet up the next day.
So give these a try if you want a no fail cookie recipe that is super quick and only requires one bowl and 10 minutes in the oven !!!
I realized I had not yet posted how I have been putting together all of photos that I have been taking everyday for the 365 project. So here they are-
The 2 albums I am using this year are WR Memory Keeepers ring binders-
As a parent we get a lot of artwork home from ‘school’ (daycare) and so when I read through a book late last year that had artwork stuck into a scrapbook album I had a light bulb moment. What a great way to store and keep kids artwork in a place that is easy to access and that Flynn is able to look through. It has worked really well so far, I just pop the artwork into the album every time Flynn brings something home, or does something at home that I know I want to keep.
Look in the study!When my husband lost Flynn for a few minutes the other day he found him in his study on the computer checking his email ! So cute, he has never done this before and luckily Simon is well trained to make sure he snaps a photo when funny things like this happen.This is most definitely my photo of the day.
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