2020 Photos Up

I did something productive today. I put up photos of the kids!!! ...from 2020!

So obviously, yes, this was a project a few years in the making (...or a few years in procrastinating?)~ I brought up the frames from the basement last month when I attempted a bit of organizing. Then they've been kicking around on the laundry room desk waiting for me to get at it. I bought these frames in 2020 or 2021 to put the family photos in from back then when we had 12 kids. I uploaded those photos to Walgreens on Saturday night, and picked them up Monday. 

Katharine saw me working on this and said "Where is me?" "You were up in heaven! Peter was the baby" as I showed her the pic of little Peter. She was satisfied with that answer. I wanted to put them side by side somewhere, but didn't find a good location on the walls. So I moved other photos around - put the 2012 pics in the music room, the 2014 pics where the 2012 were, and these 2020 pics where the 2014 were. Ugh, I'm missing other years too... should prob put up the 2016 pics, 2017, 2018 pics, doh...  Ok, my first NEXT priority is 2023. I want a big group photo on canvas and will maybe put on the wall where the medallion art thing is? We might need more walls. As for now, the sun bleached paint helped me stay dedicated to the frame locations. I would have preferred them side by side, not one on top of each other, but there wasn't a good space for that. But after changing it to on top of each other, it didn't look right... 

So I took the bottom frame and flipped them all upside down, then the frame upside down. Now the bottom one doesn't have the grippy thing to hold onto the nail, but that's ok. I'll secure it later. But I'm glad I did something today. That's a win.

It was an ok day. I was fighting hard to not lay down. My goal for today was to not take a nap. Just... keep...moving. I saw a meme that said "This month I'm doing a challenge called 'November'. It's where I try to make it through everyday of November." haha. This morning I did bouldering at Ft union for 45 minutes. Katharine had a friend over so that helped me keep moving. I wasn't able to scroll reels cause I had my phone playing princess songs on the Bose. I unloaded and loaded the dishes, wiped off the counter, started laundry for the boys, and then my cute SIL Stephanie called, so that was good. It made the princess music stop, but they were in play mode by then so it was ok. It was good to chat with her and I cleaned the laundry room a little bit while we talked. Nicole called too. Her divorce was finalized on Monday, that's hard. After the girls got home, I left for a ride. First I took a photo of Lily wearing her father's pants to school!!! 

Lily, those are for a 5'11 male. That is not you. Please don't wear your father's clothes, that's ridiculous. My ride to the ruins was slow, but slow still gets you there if you keep moving. I like the ruins. Someday I'll cross over the log and actually go touch the stones there.