I love boards–chalkboards, corkboards, whiteboards, I love ‘em all. When I was younger, I used a chalkboard to make an “animated” film. Right after college I fantasized about having an entire wall fitted in cork so I could tack anything I wanted. (Cork board + vision wall = creative OC heaven.)
To me, boards are “refillable” canvasses where one can create and recreate dreams, aside from putting up the mandatory to-do lists. If it were up to me, boards would have less tasks and more notes, magazine cut-outs, pictures, and postcards.
That’s why I’m absolutely thrilled that we now have not just one, not just two, but THREE boards in our room. (And they’re on MY side of the room–my doing, obviously… *Teehee*)
The first–a corkboard–is meant to be our vision board. As Paul and I enter into marriage, I am thrilled at the thought of building a life and a future together. As soon as I have a good two hours of daydreaming and reflection time, that board’s gonna be filled with images and affirmations of a beautiful life ahead. 
The next one’s a weekly planning board, which I got because Paul and I have been so busy individually and as a pair that we’ve found it necessary to sync schedules regularly. I figured that if offices have weekly planning boards, families should to. It just saves a lot of headache and potential miscommunication.
The last one is a pretty large whiteboard that serves as both a planning and a message board. I’ve already adorned it with huge colorful buttons and our funky Rock the Vote bus sticker, and a couple of messages written on neon paper. We were actually really excited about this one, because we often find ourselves mind mapping and brainstorming into the wee hours of the morning that a large whiteboard has become crucial. I’m looking at another empty wall on another side of the room, and I’m thinking that Paul might actually want to install a larger board there. Hmm.
All these seem trivial, but I know that these boards are going to make life even more exciting for us. There will be opportunities for shared dreaming and planning, for leaving good morning messages and love notes, for tacking silly things and reminders, for posting photos and postcards… for creatively defining a life that’s now moving from two individuals into a single family. And as I end this entry, I’m excitedly thinking of the note I’m going to post, or the poem I’ll compose for my beloved to read when he gets home.
Photo by Yasuhide Fumoto of Digital Vision, for Getty Images
