Breaking Tradition

The Pretty Paper Party prompt 2 challenge was to use a full sheet of patterned paper as a background. I decided to use the sketch based on Julie Kirk's sample layout (from the prompt 2 handout) and to combine this challenge with today's weekly LOM Community challenge to create a storage binder layout using five photos. I flipped through one of my 2010 storage binders and found the perfect set of photos, extras that I saved to tell a different story after I had scrapped about Thanksgiving Day. (You can see that layout and story here.)

I had saved five photos to tell the story of our pie tradition and how my niece and nephews broke the tradition that year.

Journaling reads: Robbie and I have a tradition of eating a slice of pie at 10 am on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. We started this the year before we were married because we’re always a little hungry mid-morning yet we usually don’t have our big holiday meal until around 1 or 2 pm. And besides that, once we’ve eaten a huge meal, we don’t always have room for the great desserts. So, we eat dessert first. However, on Thanksgiving Day of 2010, Trey, Nichole & Andrew totally skipped the pie because I had made dirt pudding and they wanted that instead. (Daddy had some of both!)

This layout highlights one of my favorite photos from that day - Andrew sharing his dirt pudding with me. Notice how he has his mouth open as if telling me to open up for a bite. I love it!

Overall I think the layout is a little busy with the small print on the patterned paper and so many journaling strips, but I'm thrilled to have this memory recorded for our Things That Matter album.

(Edited due to several comments - dirt pudding is simply chocolate pudding with Oreo cookies crumbled up in it to give it the look and texture of dirt. So simple, yet always a hit with kids [& adults]!)