Loving Grid Layouts

I have been working harder to give weight to certain pages in my albums. It can be hard to balance having 100 adorable photos when they are of a not-particularly-significant event in our lives, or when I have similar photos year after year of the same activities. I have been turning more and more to grid-style layouts, where I can get lots of photos on a page.

For this page I wanted to include lots of photos because I am looking back at a time that my daughter and my entire Girl Scout troop was so much littler! Half the layouts I've pinned on Pinterest seem to be grids as well.

Make Something Every Day - Day Two

Esme and I kept busy this morning and let Ethan sleep in.  We went shopping for a former member of our Girl Scout troop.  Her family had a house fire and she and her sister lost almost all of their belongings to smoke damage.  We decided to get them each a dress and a toy for Christmas, and the girls are making all kinds of little handicrafts to include in their gift bags.

I am fighting my second cold of the season so I wasn't feeling super ambitious, but we really wanted to use up the older bananas, so I washed my hands thoroughly and kept going.  Esme and I have never made banana bread so I'm not sure exactly how it will turn out.  We just made a mini loaf as a test and it's baking now.  I'm going to take some cough syrup and cuddle up with my husband and hope to feel ambitious tomorrow.