1. Water
2. Shelter
3. Food
4. Air
5. Love
I have been blessed to have all of the above. Always. Now, don't get me wrong, I have had trials, heartaches and mistakes, but the good far out-weighs the bad. My childhood was happy, my teen-age years were relatively trouble-free, my college days were full of friends, finding myself and education. :) My newlywed years brought contentment, my child-bearing years, joyful. Now I am finding myself heading into the middle- of- life years. I guess I have thought a lot about that lately as my 44th birthday is at the end of the month. What will the next phase bring?
So, I am giving myself a present this year. I AM SO EXCITED I can hardly sleep at night. I am going to do our family photo album--yes, I have 14 years of photos to put into albums. The photos are being removed from boxes, folders, envelopes, and bags.
Luckily, I have kept most of it together for 19 years--CRAZY!!!!!! What has taken me so long? 
Oh boy...work is cut out for me. "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can..."
I am so excited though because as I work on it for the next few weeks, the memories of our time together will flood back. I know there will be a gammet of emotions as I journey through the past 14 years of our family's life. We have actually been together for 19 years, but the past 5 years or so is digital and on the computer. (That is a different project for a different day.)I hope that I can post in the very near future finished photo albums---Happy Birthday to ME!!
Be Nice to People,
Julie
9 comments:
I'm right with you on those "middle years" - my albums have been a work in progress (need to get back wkg on them).. Have fun!
Wow, what a lovely idea! My photos are like yours-either in boxes or on computer. Can't wait to see what you come up with and i think your post was just a lovely way to look at life:)
Blessings, Shazy x
Julie, I, too, have wanted to organize my pictures and get them placed into albums. I have bought 3photo albums, one for each adult child of mine. I have a couple extra albums for my pictures, that I want to keep for myself. I haven't got started on doing this project yet, but you have given me *inspiration to get them out, and get started on dividing the pictures between the 3 kids and myself.. This is something that I hope to have done before Christmas of this year, as I'd like to give an album to each one of our kids for one of their special Christmas presents..
Blessings,
~Lynn
Your post today hits close to home. I have ten years on you when it comes to our age that many more years of not putting together our photo albums! I've been talking about doing it for the last few years-something else always takes me away from it. Like you I just need to do it! Good luck with it all. Just think of how beautiful they will be because of all the lovely scrapbooking items there are! I'm going to try to accomplish this project for sure this year. I'm not getting any younger.
I always refer to stages in our lives as "another chapter" of life and I thank the Lord for each one of them!
Hugs,
Sheila
I've been following your blog for awhile and I wanted to say that I just love your blog. You are such an inspiration. Thank you for being who you are.
Hugs,
Stella
I have done photo albums for years, and at one time taught 2 different scrapbooking classes, and started 2 different scrapbooking clubs; in 2 different cities that were 35 miles apart !!
Our entire family LOVES looking at those scrapbooks. I am in a different phase of my life now, but I remember feeling a bit over whelmed trying to get so many pictures taken care of.
I kept repeating to myself..." How do you eat an elephant ? ... one bite at a time...one bite at a time"
You'll get it done !!
Happy birthday Julie!
I can't wait to see how the album comes out too!
Rondell♥
What a wonderful gift to give yourself and your family! Wish I could be there with you to help :D Love your Hugs & Kisses pillow Julie, Hugs & Kisses to you!!!
Oh Julie, thanks for the reminder on how behind I am with our albums! Somehow there are always gaps in the albums from taking pics out to make copies for projects and the scrapbooks (I'm one of the biggest culprits!)One of these day I should tackle it too, but I'm just having so much fun with quilting right now...Maybe I should make an album just for my sewing! That ought to keep me motivated!
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