Weekend Thought : Your 12 Stories

My list is that of others. I am just so inspired I want to actually get out there and create.... NOW!

Yes! Such a great idea! I read all the lists and am quite inspired to do more layouts!
I would say my top 12 are:
1-4: My college scrapbooks. There are a lot of firsts and lasts in those four books (I have one for every year).
5: Traditions like my mom's birthday at a Hibachi restaurant every year
6: Moving in with my boyfriend and creating a Home, not an apartment.
7: My Bailey! (shih tzu)
8: Christmas/Thanksgiving - it alternates every year with our families
9: Fourth of July in Pittsburgh (another tradition)
10: Pieces of ME (a layout from a journaling prompt that leaves a lot of my soul on the page)
11: Being an Aunt for the first time - this has yet to be scrapped, but there is a little baby in my Sister-In-Law's belly.
12: THE SAME AS 11 - I JUST FOUND OUT MY OTHER BROTHER AND SIL ARE PREGNANT, TOO!
Thanks for all the inspiration, Ladies, to start scrapping once again!

12 Stories to document:
1. My marriage to my very best friend
2. Daughter #1
3. Daughter #2
4. Son
5. My parents
6. My In-laws
7. Our Grandparents
8. My very newborn (this past Tuesday)Granddaughter-our
first grandchild
9. Friends
10. My home
11. My Siblings
12. My Work

WOW. What an wonderful question.
Ok, here I go:
1. my relationship with Evan
2. my family
3. my relationship with Jesus
4. my community group
5. why I want to be a teacher
6. my best friends from high school
7. my favorite music
8. my favorite books
9. the kind of home & family i want to have in the future
10. why i want to be a mom
11. hopes and fears
12. LOVE--why it is my favorite word and why I think it's the most important thing in the world
Hmm. I'm a little dissatisfied with this list. I have to think about this!

And in not certain order:
1. my collections
2. my hobbies
3. my childhood
4. my dreams
5. my faith
6. my husband
7. my kids
8. my bucket-list
9. my job(s)
10. my random thoughts/opinions
11. my not-so-good qualities
12. favorite quotes

1+2: Why we are who we are (childhood stories, etc.) for myself and my husband
3: The story of US, wedding etc.
4 and up: Hopefully yet to come ! :)
Alicia

1. Our journey as a couple
2. My hobbies
3. my husband's hobbies
4. Brayden
5. Jaxson
6,7,8,9. What we love about each season (page for each one)
10. Daily routine
11. Magnum(our dog)
12. my girlfriends

My wedding
Birth of our son
Birth of our daughter
Choosing to become Catholic at age 10
My college graduation, mid 30's then graduate degree
Travel with my husband
Favorite memory of growing up in South America
My Parents
Document Today...lol, who did I learn that from???
My Grandchildren
First draft...thanks for asking,
Catherine

12 Scrapbook memories that would define my life, has certainly got me to thinking...
1. Summers at Hermit Island, camping & just going to the beach
2. Spending time at my Nana & Grampa's camp on Tacoma Lake with cousins.
3. Age 21-30 (so much of it made me who I am today)
4. Carrabassett Valley, Maine Age 30-35 (the life I was sure I wanted to live, the air I wanted to wake up every morning and smell)
5. Running into my husband in the grocery store after 10 years of not seeing him, he was going through a divorce and I wanted a life in the Valley, my how true love can change your plans...today I am married and still in Brunswick
6. Our Wedding!!!
7. My Dad's fall rendering him a quadriplegic has taught me what life is worth and what love is supposed to be, watching my amazing Mom take care of him selflessly dropping her whole life to do it. (this is how I knew I loved Aaron, I would do the same for him)
8. Aaron's children (my "bonus" children) Madison age 8 and Gavin age 4
9., 10. 11. & 12 are still to come :)

I read this post yesterday and it took me a full day to come up with a list of 12. There are so many more, and so many of these that could be multiple pages even complete books but here goes:
1. Childhood - grew up a Navy brat, moving every three years and what it taught me.
2. My Dad
3. My Husband
4. Our Story
5. Our Loss - More about losing a child, the grief, the strength and the love that grows put the pain that stays.
6. Our daughter - what it means to have another child after loosing a child.
7. My wishes and dreams for our daughter
8. My strenths and weaknesses
9. What makes me Laugh
10. What makes me cry
11. Today. The here and now
12. My "bucket list". I started this list a few years ago after loosing our son. So maybe a layout as a check list so to speak.
I keep a journal, and have for many years I don't go back and read them often, so it will be interesting to go back and pull these out to get my journaling and thoughts for each page.

ME TOO. This could very well be the most *tricky* and *coolest* challenge you've provided yet. NICE WORK!

These would be mine:
My colledge story and how it led me to my current calling, running a home for pregnant and parenting un-wed teens.
My husbands and i's story.
My children's story
My belief's
My husbands military story and how it has impacted our family
Our family pets
Our homes
Family trips
People who have had a great impact on me

#5 should read: About losing a child, the grief, the strength and the love that grows, BUT the pain that stays.

Such a profound question! It's fun to look at everyone's lists, but for me the more profound thing is, have I scrapbooked the layouts that tell my most important stories? The main thing that comes to mind is how I met my husband and our love story. It seems I never get to this because I lack pictures... (he really hates having his picture taken) but really that's just an excuse!

My 12 layouts would be:
1. Tidbits from my childhood
2. My husband - how we met and why I'm totally in love with him.
3 - 5. A page for each of my children and what they have taught me, how they have made me a better person.
6. My beliefs and values
7. An ordinary day in my life
8. Places I've lived
9. My hobbies and talents
10. My likes/dislikes (ex: scrapping/laundry)
11. My strengths/weaknesses (ex:listening/putting things off)
12. My goals and dreams

I was thinking the same thing--some of the 12 I initially came up with would change throughout the years. OTOH, some of them would remain. Recently I did a "Favorites" layout, including a 9-square grid of 9 photos of what my favorite things are right now. http://www.bigpicturescrapbooking.com/gallery/cache/24544/FavoritesLO-web-rev_0.jpg
This post makes me wonder what I'd do with 12 more squares in my grid.....

What a great question. I might pose this to my scrap club as an assignment for our next crop! I could even see this as a '12 things' layout, to be revisited from time to time. Oh, the possibilities!!!
I'm thinking about my answers right now...

I'd want to share the majesty of being alive. I'd want to show how deeply connections can be rooted, and how people are drawn together by the simplest of things. I'd want to record how even the most irretractable mistake is better than not living fully. I'd want to share the blessings I have in my friends and family. I'd also want a lot of photos of my dog in there, too.

I would try to incorporate a lot onto a page so might concentrate on comparisons and contrasts for many of them:
1. All the places I've lived
2. My spiritual heritage
3. Important things I learned from my parents
4. My brother and sister
5. Love at first sight - The story of me and DH
6. Significant moments with our son
7. Significant moments with our daughter
8. Baby pictures of all 5 grandkids
9. "Hospitals of the World Tour"
10.The travels of a lifetime
11.How I've used Gods' gifts/talents
12.Looking forward to the next chapter/projections for retirement

WOW, what a question. I will have to think on that.