Up for the challenge

What challenges you?  It can be BIG or small, but if it's important to you, it's a challenge just the same.  Recently I have been beating myself up lately for falling so ridiculously far behind on my scrap booking.  I love to do it, I love the memories I can just flip through anytime I want.  I started scrap booking back in the early 2000's.  I spent countless hours with some amazing friends laughing, creating, sharing....it was a good creative outlet and a wonderful way to enjoy time with friends.  And as life goes.....we all got busy, busier, and even busier yet.  Our once-monthly crop sessions that we held religiously dwindled to once every few months....and as of now, I struggle to remember when the last time we had one.  I think I might have been newly pregnant with Teagan.  Hence the reason I don't have time to scrapbook anymore!!!

 

On her first birthday (June 2011) I was 100% caught up on all my scrapbook pages.  And to date.....I have only scrap booked one page since then.  Which means.....I am a year and a half behind.....multiplied by 3 kids......which means 77 layouts behind....give or take.

 

So I am thinking I'll just forget it.  Upload some memory books to Shutterfly, and call it done. 

 

But then the picture below is a common occurrence at our house. 

 

 

 

 

The girls LOVE to look through their scrapbooks. They love to see pictures of themselves and family, special trips we have taken and holidays past. So, it's because of them that I accept the challenge of getting caught up....and (attempt to) stay caught up.  I spent two and a half hours yesterday while they were napping tagging the past 5 months of pictures.  So, another 5 months to go today.  Then I have to print them all, select the paper, and get down to the work of creating.  By my calculations of a reasonable amount of pages I can complete in a month.....I should be caught up on the past year and a half....in approximately 10 months.....which then makes me 10 more months behind.

 

But, whatever.  I am doing it because my girls love it.  I am doing it because it's something I am proud of and it allows me to let off a little steam.  I am doing it because I love a challenge!