So, I almost completely gave up on this project.
Over the weekend, the Holiday Blues hit pretty hard. I had to back out of several obligations and just got discouraged with my inability to *do it all*. I’ve never really struggled with comparison, but it’s hard to stay upbeat when I don’t have my best friend and husband here to keep me encouraged. He’s so good at doing that!
Anyway, I fell behind in my December Daily and really wrestled with just giving it up altogether.
Then last night I decided to just stop looking at all the beautiful layouts posted in the December Daily facebook group and just get to work on mine. Sometimes I can get stuck just looking at the amazing work other scrapbookers are doing instead of being creative myself. I forget that being creative is what actually pulls me out of the discouragement that I’m feeling.
I began working on day 8 as the kids were getting ready for bed and by the time they were ready to head up to bed, I was finished with day 14. I could have easily wasted that entire time, but instead I got to work and caught up on my December Daily album in about an hour and a half.
There’s got to be a lesson in there somewhere!
Here are my pages for days 8-14…
Day 8
Day 9
Day 10
Day 11
Day 12
Day 13
Day 14
And now it’s the end of day 15 and I’m just so happy that my album is over half-way complete! It feels like such an accomplishment!!