Focus 52

A few days (weeks?) ago I signed up to be part of Focus 52.  Jan over at twoscoopz put me up to it and I'm glad she did.  But let me confess that I haven't actually started yet.  I knew it was something I wanted to do but I wasn't exactly sure WHAT I wanted to do.  The obvious thing would be for me to take photos.  But you know...I've taken photos most days since July 2003 so that's not really stretching my creativity.  I'm not saying I get fantastic photos every day but you know, I just wasn't feeling it on the photography front...or at least not JUST photography.  Because to be perfectly honest, I'm trying to learn to NOT take my camera with me everywhere I go.  So doing a POTW didn't feel particularly ambitious or helpful.

In that case, what to do?  At the rate I've been going, I probably could have settled for one blog post a week and that would have been an accomplishment.  *hehe*  Yes, I've been a bit of a slacker lately.  But I'm actually going to be even more ambitious than that.  Here's the plan:  I want to do one digiscrap layout a week AND I want them to be about the everyday things in our lives (my life?).  How awesome would it be - twenty years from now - to read up on what our current daily schedule is...or how I *really* feel about cooking...or even things from our family history like how Dwight and I came to be...or how I came to be driving a minivan.  Maybe those will be tales my kids can connect with when they're embarking on this adventure called Parenting.  So that's the plan.  At the end of the day...err...year, I think I'll walk away with something incredibly valuable to me.  And in the meantime, I think the weekly creative outlet will be good for me.  Perhaps I can even work in Jan's weekly prompts? 

So now that I've figured out what I'm doing, I have plans to get started TONIGHT...and I'd better hurry up and get two layouts done because week 3 is right around the corner!