I didn’t make it out to buy our 2009 calendar before we began our January shopping fast, and so I was faced with creating my own solution. A little Excel magic, a frustrating bout with our printer, some doodling with ink and paint, and voila! It’s nice to have something that is completely personalized – I did the month names in French as a little vocab lesson for Shane, and the graphics for each month are tied to an anticipated event or a mood (hence the simplicity of the graphic for frugal January and the Eiffel Tower doodle for the month of March). It’s no Nikki McClure calendar (which served us well in 2008), but I’m pretty happy with the results. Another tribute to “making do” with the resources we have at hand.
