Hello!  It’s me Katie with a What Matters Monday post…

In the past, I’ve mainly stuck to writing up some challenges or interviewing people, but I finally decided on something that mattered to me, and I wanted to share it.

I know when I’m making layouts, I tend to focus on events, well moreso the people at the events.  One of my children’s birthday celebrations, a family get together, a fun outing, that sort of thing.  But there are so many more things that are important in our lives.  There are things that my kids do or dream or want that I want to remember, that has very little to do with an event or a person.

So I’ve made it my goal to scrap these things too.  Here is a layout I just scrapped last week:

My son has had a fascination with Ireland since he first heard about it.  I don’t even know where or when he heard about it.  Just one day he started talking about it.  He tells us he’s going to move there when he grows up (right now he’s 7 1/2).  What is it that draws him there?  He says it’s the leprachauns…but I don’t really know.  Will he still love Ireland when he’s 14, 17, an adult?  Will we even remember that that was one of his dreams??  Like most things, I tend to think, I’ll never forget this, but I do (unless it’s one of those persistent in your face kind of things…) so if this dream falls to the wayside for another country or another dream, I’ll probably forget about it.  But I love that he’s dreaming and imagining and reaching.

So what does this mean for us?  Scrap a thing.  Scrap something that has nothing to do with an event.  Scrap an accomplishment.  Scrap the foods that you couldn’t get enough of when you were pregnant.  Scrap the favorite colors, the favorite games, the favorite toys, the favorite books, the favorite tv shows.  Scrap something that is not a person and let those memories live on, long after your done being pregnant or when your little girl is done playing with Barbies.

Here’s some more inspiration…

http://www.scrapmatters.com/gallery3/showphoto.php?photo=1661&ppuser=52