The layout I am sharing today was made using the October 2013 Cocoa Daisy Kit“Sweater Weather”.
I started out with
the April Sketch seen here and it kind of took off from there. I love sketches; they just make scrapping
easier for me, because I don’t have to think about the design. Instead I get to
focus more on the story I want to tell and the pictures I want to include.
Cocoa Daisy puts out great sketches each month for their sketch challenge and I also print off the monthly Page Maps
sketches and keep those in a binder that it always close at hand.
This layout includes 9 pictures that I took over a
twenty-four hour time period at my parent’s house. It was a quick trip and
actually may have been less than twenty-four hours. My parents live two hours
away and this particular weekend Jess’ basketball girls were playing in our
High School Basketball District Tournament, which was taking place about 45
minutes from my home town. So after the finals Saturday evening, which we won,
the boys and I drove to my parents for the night.
I grew up on 90 acres of open land with lots of trees, ponds,
and creeks. I know every inch of those 90 acres from constant exploring as a
child. The way Mom kept an eye on my
brother and me was to yell across the pastures every once in a while as we were
out exploring. As long as we answered
her yell, we were good to go. I do the same thing with the big boys when we
visit. I love that this tradition continues for my boys.
When we are home visiting the boys feel a great sense of
freedom and they take full advantage of every minute of daylight. It helps that
they have cousins right across the pasture to play with and that my Mom has a
no technology policy at her house when the kids are all together. They literally wear themselves ragged
playing.
Jude hasn’t figured out how much freedom he has quite yet. He
loves to explore Mom and Dad’s large yard, lounging dogs, and have the
attention of his grandparent’s and older cousins. He has also taken a ride or
two on the go-cart while riding in Mama’s lap and loved it.
This layout captures the busy and the worn out. I think it still lacks a little embellishing,
but I still love it. Right now it is still sitting on my scrap desk. It may get
a little more embellishing or it may just go into an album. I have yet to decide.
Happy Scrapping!
