The Idea

I am taken with the idea that Ali Edwards promotes (and does so beautifully well) of capturing everyday moments and snapshots of what a period of time in your life generally looks like. I came across a template to fill out periodically that helps you do just that. It is called The Simple Woman's Daybook. You just fill in the blanks of the list on a regular, even scheduled, basis. I will tweak it over time to match my life and what I want to capture. I think it is a brilliant jumping point to get me going in the right direction. It will help me slow down, notice the beauty of every day, and be more in the moment. It will also show changes in the seasons of my life over time.

The moments of my life slip by so fast. Many of them I capture, but I am missing the over-all picture of the everyday details that are so normal today, but will look completely different at another point in time. Ali has done many "Today" pages for her 7 year-old son, Simon, over the years, which I adore. But I struggle with how to do that for 6 children. There just isn't time. (Now that she has had another baby, I am eager to see how she will manage it for more than one child.) I am considering coming up with a schedule of when to do such pages for each child through out the year. Maybe once a quarter. That would cover each season of the year.

There is so much"doing" to do. I simply can't always stop. I want to capture and store away details so that someday I can take them out and examine them at my leisure. And as much as we all hate it and think it won't happen, we do forget those precious fleeting moments that come and go before we know it. I'll never capture them all, but I want to be better organized with a system for gathering as many of them as I can.