that’s how creating my most recent Youtube video felt… and in that process I realized
What I wish I would’ve done differently.
And that I want to do more of this.
What I wish I would’ve done differently.
Putting this video together felt like this beautiful cinematic scrapbook of our life.
Not only was it fun to review the footage, see it come together to the beat of the music and be able to easily share our trip with our friends and family.
But what I loved most was the edit before the one I posted.
The one where you could hear what was happening in the shots.
The crunching of the snow as Jack ran through the yard.
Sophia yelling “Mama look! I found somethin super kewlllll!”
As we do as creatives, my gut told me to post the video sans my voiceover but my brain told me I should post with it so it was “more valuable + interesting” to others who might watch it….
(Feel free to shake your head here with me🤣)
So I’m going to create more of these… my way
shares these mesmerizing Visual Journals each week and I’ve found it so inspiring to watch. And as I realized: how much I enjoyed documenting our time
having a record of our unschooling activities
making it easy to share our lives with our family
how this is helping me fall more in love with my life
it felt possible to create in this way too.
So I’m going to see how it feels to document our weeks here.
This first week will be available for all subscribers so you can get a peek into what this column is about. Future postings will be for our paid community so I can freely share our family details and others can feel safe sharing about their weeks in community too.
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What our week looked like:
February 23
Arrived home from Hocking Hills
Immediately freaked out at what a mess our house was and the contrast between the Airbnb/dream house we just stayed in.
Moved the furniture around to see if our current home could feel like where we stayed.
Had yet another existential crisis over if we should stay in our house or build our dream one.
Was invited to an intense drum concert in our living room with Collin and the kids.
February 24
Dropped the kids at Learning Cafe (their twice a week homeschool program from 9am-12pm)
Relaxed at the coffee shop next door, testing Capcut for creating my Youtube video and putting it together.
Headed to my Grandmas for the afternoon
Then off to gymnastics
February 25
Lego building and book reading after morning pad time
- stopped for a morning tea and hang sesh (along with an always poignant card pull)
Vision therapy for Sophia
Then more playtime and building before our sitter came over
Wrapped up the day with a beautiful Founder Experience Session my friend Maryana who just opened a new day retreat spa + salon😍
February 26
Matcha and an amazing interview with Kelly Sinclair for my thesis while the kids were at the Learning Cafe
Lunch at the coffee shop afterwards
Pitstop at my mom’s office for a laminator and paper cutter and an afternoon spent bringing these amazing prints to life
February 27
A morning spent playing at my mom’s house
Weekly swimming with my dad at the indoor community pool (and laps for me)
A pitstop at the Twinsburg Library
Reading and tea time for me while the kids watched their pads until Collin joined us for dinner and bedtime
February 28
Chill morning pad/reading time
Followed by a panic when I realized we didn’t have Sophia’s birth certificate for our passport appointment the next day
Which lead to a trip to City Hall downtown
And an impromptu Aquarium trip
March 1
Family time in the morning
Passport appointments at the Library
A trip in town for light bulbs at the local hardware store, groceries and to mail my passport
Then kid dates (Collin with Jack + Me with Sophia) to wrap up the day
March 2
After a week of nightly wake ups from the kids we chilleddddd.
I kept reading Variation by Rebecca Yarros
The kids watched Leap Frog movies (we’re calling good shows “protein for your brain” now 🤣)
Then my amazing mother in law came over to hang with the kids while Collin and I grabbed lunch and went to my friend Molly’s Spirit-Free Bar for a sauna experience.
What about you?
What does one of your week’s look like? Have you thought about different ways to romanticize and see the beauty in the every day?
I’ve also been thinking about junk journaling at the end of each day too.
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