Live in the Moment, take 2

I love this quote:


“The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. … I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less”
  

Because I love this saying so much, remember when I made THIS post to display it?

It was super easy to do, but I didn't LOVE it... so back to the drawing board I went and came up with this instead: 

Ahhh! Much better!

Here is a step-by-step tutorial so you can make one too!

1. Set up an account with Picnik.com- its easy and FREE!

2. Find a picture you love of your kids and upload it to Picnik. I chose this one of their feet:

3. Once on Picnik, turn the picture Black & White

4. Add some text. (Live in the Moment is in Times New Roman and the smaller text is in Jules-Te-Reo)

5. Crop it. 

 

6. Add a vignette (the size on this one is 10-15)

    

7. Print it out 

I just emailed it to my husband and he printed it off his nice printer from work.

 

8. Frame it!

I tried a few different frame options: an 11x14 with an 8x10 matte, different colored mattes etc, but the one I like most was this simple black frame without no matte at all.  Sometimes less is more!

9. Display it!

Mine is on my nightstand- its my daily reminder to enjoy life as it is- craziness and all!

I know being a mom is hard and crazy at times, but I just don't want to have any regrets and miss out on this chance to make memories every dayl!!! Hopefully this picture will remind me during those rough times to savor every second- I am not going to get this time back, and it really is a great time in life!!!