Here's the last installment of my Christmas Daily album. I gave the album to my granddaughter Payton at her birthday party yesterday. She is only four and I wasn't sure if she would get it or not. Not too long ago she was over and wanted to go into my studio. I told her we couldn't go in that day because I was working on a big project (this album) and had it layed out all over. She asked what I was working on and I told her it was a project for her. So yesterday I reminded her of that day and told her this was the project. We sat down on the floor and I went through all the pages with her. She was completely mesmorized while I explained it to her. I told her she had to take very good care of it and couldn't play with it so it would be around when she got to be a big girl. She said "Okay Nana". Even after this conversation I wasn't sure if she got it. But then my daughter called me today. She told me that she was looking at it with Payton and that Payton told her what every single page was for almost exactly as I had told it to her. She is very excited to get started on it when it gets to be "cember, in a few days". Well, wonders never cease, maybe she did get it.
It was a big tradition in our house on Christmas Eve for the kids to all get to open one present. It was always a pair of pajamas. Then we would gather them around in their new jammies and my husband would read the Night Before Christmas to them and they would toddle off to bed. We had the same routine from my oldest daughter's first Christmas to the Christmas before my youngest son graduated high school. That was from 1974 until 2004, thirty years. Gosh, that's a long time.
When it was Payton's first Christmas we bought her the book 'Twas the Night Before Christmas so my daughter could begin the tradition with her children. This year we went to Hallmark and bought the recordable version so my husband could read it for them. We haven't given it to her yet, but will soon.
When I did the Sugar Plums page I knew I had to make the bed with a pink pillow and purple blanket. Those are Payton's favorite colors and what her room is done in. I'm not sure if my daughter will be able to get a picture of her sleeping on Christmas Eve. You've never seen a kid who sleeps less. I'm glad I'm not going to be at her house trying to get her to go to sleep.
I'm really proud of myself for finishing this album. I have to admit, I would rather make cards than scrapbook. This did give me the inspiration to get busy on some of my old pictures. I'm hoping to finish albums for each of my five children and give them to each of them next Christmas. Plus I will try to get one more album done for my son. A Marine scrapbook. Thanks so much for following along with my Christmas Daily album. I hope I've inspired someone to give it a go. It really was so easy using Regina's digital stamp sets from
The Cutting Cafe. I used both her
December Daily set from last year and this year's
December Daily 2.
