One Little Word

Good Morning!
Not sure how it is by you but the wind ushered in a cold front here and we are back down to the 30s today. A far cry from yesterday's 60s! Now if only the sun would peek out, just a little. If it does I am taking a pic and you will get a second blog post of the day!

So - I have been reflecting on my One Little Word although really I knew what it should be pretty quickly. It just lept out at me when I read her challenge. Then I thought of some others that would also work - but I am deciding to go with the leaper outer. Did you have one that came right to your mind? If so I think you should go with it.

Anyway - my word of 2008 is:
*MOVE*
I picked this for a variety of reasons - but not the one that may have lept to your mind first. MOVE just signifies what I want to do this year. There are so many definitions of the word that describe what I mean. Here are some:

To exhibit great activity or energy.
To initiate an action; act.
To be active in a particular environment: moves in diplomatic circles.
To stir the emotions: words that have the power to move.
To progress in sequence; go forward
To follow a specified course: Earth moves around the sun.
To progress toward a particular state or condition: moved into the lead.

idioms:
"get a move on"
To get started; get going.move in on
"on the move"
Busily moving about; active
Making progress; advancing

You see I want to MOVE toward my goals. I want to MOVE everyday - a lot (exercise type stuff). I need to Keep MOVING forward ( a favorite quote from this movie). When I get too drowsy from the stupid medication I take and just want to fold it all in - I need to MOVE. One step at a time, one goal at at time, one action at a time.

Yep. MOVE works for me.
What did you pick?
Hurry and choose your word - now we are going to do a project with it. Yes, I said WE!
So MOVING along... here are more pages/projects done...

Here is Ethan when he was only one. All I needed to do with this is add the ribbon and frame it (which I have been meaning to do like, um, forever and I HAD the frame already! See what I mean by MOVE?!)Here it is in the frame. Hard to get a good shot of it without a glare. It is a white frame purchased at ACMoore and advertised at being used to frame old record jackets. Its 12x12 only cost me a few bucks and works perfectly.Here is Halloween 2006. For this one I just needed to add the title and the journaling. Now, once I added the paper strips my intent was to write the comments to the journaling just like I did. Once it was done.... well I just wish I made a nice typed journaling box instead. Was going to "fix" it - decided to MOVE FORWARD and be done with it. For goodness sake it's been almost done for over a year! So it's going into the album - imperfect or not.Didn't have to do too much to this one either. You can't see it that well but stamped in the upper left corner it says, "One warm day in..." This is actually not THAT old and is from April 2007.

So, I need tallys from Deb and from Heather - oh and you need to post them to the blog please. Don't worry about if you are "caught up" to day nine. Just MOVE toward the 31 page/project goal. My current count is... 11. Remember a 2 page layout counts as 2 pages done!

Now if you want to participate with me for our One Word project go to your local hobby store (Michaels, ACM, etc.) and get a 5 x 7 canvas. Like this one. They're not expensive - just think simple (on that site they were 4.85 for a three pack!). Also get your Mod Podge ready. Go ahead, I know you're busy... JUST DO IT (another three word - one simple word that I considered).

Okay, this post took me awhile and I need to get the boys MOVING. I'd love to hear what you think about my word, and hear yours!!! :)