Geeking...Week 5

This week's Geek Assignment:

This week’s theme is once again one you could approach several ways. You might want to tell about the forms of storytelling (aside from books) you love. Maybe you enjoy TV shows, movies, music, narrative poetry, or Renay’s favorite, fanfiction. You could give us an overview of a type of storytelling, such as listing your favorite movies. Or you might pick a more specific story, one particular favorite. I just finished watching an episode of Lost, for example, so I could tell why I enjoy that series, or I could get more specific and focus on one character’s personal story. Some people might post youtubes of the songs whose stories they find brilliant, or some might share family bedtime stories. Can’t wait to see what you come up with!

I was all set to skip this week. I just couldn't think of what I might possibly post about. I watch next to no TV. Though I enjoy movies, I rarely have time to watch them, and sure as heck couldn't talk intelligibly about them. I just didn't think I had anything to add.

But then it hit me...maybe I could talk about how I tell stories. Our family's stories. I realize that my family's stories will be of no interest to others, but I think they will be of immense value to my children. I am, of course, talking about scrapbooking. I don't have nearly as much time for scrapbooking as I did before I started homeschooling, but even so, I continue to write down "our stories" in journals and even here on my blog. And someday, when I do have more free time, I'll turn those stories into layouts.

Most of the stories I record are small ones. Sure, we have Christmas layouts and vacation layouts and birthday layouts, but the real treasures in my mind are the everyday stories. The "this is you now" type of stories. Like this one...



Or this one...



Or this one...



And yes, we even have a bookcase just to house "our stories"...

just rambling again...

Well, just as I secretly feared, the weekend break came and messed up our momentum. Both boys were as cranky and uncooperative as could be yesterday about going to school. But again, they both came home happy, so hopefully today will go more smoothly again. Yesterday was somewhat of an off day for Annie and I as well...didn't finish up nearly as much as was planned. But we'll get caught back up by week's end, I'm sure. Annie's taking a couple of classes tomorrow at one of the area YMCAs (they offer some neat classes for homeschoolers), so hopefully I can then get caught up a bit on some other odds and ends.

Rich, a.k.a. the sweetest guy on earth, insisted I take a break and scrapbook a little on Sunday. So I managed to finish up a layout that had been sitting on my table 90% complete for the last few weeks.



Plus I cranked out an additional layout. The R.I.P. II Challenge has really put me in a Halloween-y kind of mood lately, so I dug out the first Halloween pics I could find. Unfortunately, they provide proof of what bad parents we are...we never seem to get around to carving our pumpkins until Halloween day, at which point it becomes a very rushed affair.



But other than that, I did nothing else of the crafty variety this past week. I'd better just give up on the idea of getting any Christmas gifts made. Sigh.