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January 31: Then + Now (the last day!!)

Then & Now layouts are one of my FAVORITES! :love

journaling is pasted into the credits in the gallery, dates are in the lower left corner and under the "NOW

 
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journaling:

Your First Day then and Your First Day now . Look at how much you've grown! From your first day of Kindergarten to your first day of 4th grade. Your first first day in Elementary and your last first day in Elementary. It's amazing to me to think that next year you'll be moving up to Intermediate. You've had a wonderful time at Woodland Springs Elementary School. I know 4th grade is going to have some great times as well. You have continued to be my smart and silly and happy girl. I hope as you move on through the next stages of your life you continue to build your character in the way that God would want. And always enjoy life as you do now! Keep your friends that you've made through these years, but always be open to making new ones! Study hard and don't let anyone discourage you from any of your dreams. Work hard at your sports and school work and you will go far! I love you, Mom
 
Celeste said:
surprised i was ready for a pocket page! he he. now i have to come up with something. hmmm.
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I thought it was going to be a double-pager or a pocket too, Celeste. I'm pleasantly surprised I was wrong. :agree
 
lmccandless said:
You've made it! Here we are at the very last day of MOC6! We hope that you have stretched your creativity, learned some new scrapping skills, been inspired and even made a new friend along the way. Look around - there are nearly 400 of us enjoying this event during our 6th year of Month of Challenges. As a team, we're incredibly grateful that you've spent this month with us. We hope that you'll join us for our regular challenges in February and continue to spend time with us here at TLP. As always, I want to give a big shout out to @mrs2a50 and all of the Pollys. I am sure you will agree that their hard work in making this a fun and inspiring event is worthy of a standing ovation.

Now, for our very last challenge of MOC6...

As memory keepers, we're often focused on capturing a moment or telling what happened during a particular event, but meaningful stories also live between the moments in our photos. In this challenge, we're going to focus on comparing then and now. Ideally, you will use the photos and your journaling to explain what has changed during the interval.

Specific Requirements for this Challenge
*You must have at least 2 photos, taken at least a year apart. You may have more than two photos. The photos can be as many years apart as you wish, but one year is the minimum.
*You must have at least 150 words of journaling.
*Your journaling must contain the words "then" and "now" within those 150 words.
*Clearly mark the dates of your photos on your layout.
*You must use scrapping products on your layout as well.

General Requirements:
Your completed page must be a new page in order to count for the Month of Challenges. Your page must be posted in three places:
  1. Uploaded to the TLP Gallery (not an outside hosting site).
  2. Posted in your page thread you created in the MOC Layouts Folder. You should have one post per completed challenge page. If you complete all 31 challenges, your thread should contain 31 posts. Please do not comment in the participants’ page threads so we can keep them clean.
  3. Posted in this thread. People can comment here if they wish.
Pages should contain at least 75% current Lilypad product (currently for sale in the store from either permanent designers or guest designers).

Here's an example layout with photos from my daughter on the first day of kindergarten and the first day of 5th grade.
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I have my dates within my journaling text (and well over 150 words). Is this okay or does it need to be elsewhere too?
 
Thanks for 31 amazing challenges! It's my third MOC and I think this year was the best! :yourock



To write the Journaling in english was the biggest challenge for me :blush (sorry for mistakes within)
Journaling:
It's only just a moment between then and now. I think so when I look at these two photos of my daughter Alicia. On the left picture she just turned 3 years old. How proud she was when she went to the kindergarten the first time. Her friend was there a few weeks earlier and Alicia could not wait to go to the kindergarten too. Now she was finally a big girl!

If I look back now, the years passed far too fast when she was so little. The years came and went and the kindergarten girl became a schoolgirl. Three weeks ago she turned 19 years old . 17 months of their vocational training are already over and I can’t imagine she stands in the operating room next to the surgeon and helps to make people healthy. The little girl became a young woman pursue her plans and dreams. I'm so proud of her
 
and with this I have completed each challenge! Thank you for such a wonderful month & reminding me what TLP was all about. I shall be sticking around again & look forward to joining in the challenges.

 
Woohoo! Last page - FINISHED! Thanks for all the fun. Here's my page (200 words journaling).

THEN: You were a bright 5-year-old, in Kindergarten, ready to take on the world. At the time we knew you had a disability, but we weren't sure exactly what it was. I wasn't until a few weeks into the year that your (very observant) teacher took us aside and made us aware of the condition called Asperger's Syndrome. We were so thankful for it brought us down the road to diagnosis and intervention.

NOW: We didn't know what all the years ahead would bring, but the fact that today is the day you graduate from High School, an Eagle Scout with a driver’s license, is what we had hoped for. The road was not easy, days filled with meetings, appointments, frustration, happiness, and the endless fight with the schools to ensure you would get the education you deserved to allow you to become all you could be, even enrolling you in private school when the local schools fell short. And here you are. We are so proud of you and all you have done to get to this point, and we will be there for you as you as you travel down the road ahead of you. We love you!

 


215 words of journaling: It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since Caden was born. Where does the time go? In the beginning, the days were so long. But now that I’m looking back, the years are so short. So incredibly short. And getting shorter. Caden has grown so much in the last decade. Back then, on his first days of life, he was just about 7 pounds. Now, at age 10, he’s just a few inches short of me. Back then, all he could do was sleep & eat & cry. Mostly eat & cry. :) Now I am amazed at his talents & knowledge & skills, the way he thinks, how he’s learning. Back then, we didn’t know he had autism. Now, he’s made such strides in overcoming his challenges. I am so very proud of him. Ten years ago, this little boy drastically changed my life. For the better. I feel so privileged to be his mother. So very grateful that he is my son and that he joined our family when he did. And yes, so grateful for all the years in between, the laughs & the tears & the triumphs & the worries & the entire spectrum of emotions & experiences. I wouldn’t trade him for those years for anyone or anything else.
 


This was it. Three years ago, you started secondary school. This meant that instead of cycling with your younger sister to school and back, you were going to go all alone. It wasn’t far, only ten minutes instead of five, but it was daunting none the less. The first day I went with you as you didn’t know anybody in your new class. I watched you walk into the school and that was it. You were a firstgrader.

Fast forward three years, and instead of cycling alone as you had to do then, you were going to cycle with your sister again. You are a thirdgrader, she is now the firstgrader in the family. And unlike you, she had company, a big sister to watch out for her, show her where the classrooms are.

Three months later again and you don’t cycle together to school. You have homework class and are always late, she cycles too slow and you cycle too fast. But that first day for you both, a world of difference.
 
doing a happy dance. NO POCKET PAGE this year! Those are always the hardest layouts for me! Thanks for helping out the pocket challenged!! lol
 
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