I recommend making a Wordle for your family. It’s easy. Just type out a bunch of words that apply to your family – names, activities, hobbies, what’s important to you. Then go to wordle.net, click on create your own and paste in the words. Click ‘Go’ and it image is made for you.
Change the settings if you want and save it. It looks cool and it’s personal. My wife made one about me for Father’s day.
Here’s the JamFam Wordle (i.e. ours):
Some tips:
– I put the words we used at the bottom of this post.
– Put in more important words more than once.
– Hyphenate words you want to stick together.
– Don’t be afraid to make it what you want to be, even if you feel you haven’t arrived yet. For example, we put in ‘glorifying-God’ even though we could do that much better than we currently do.
– Don’t put in secret family data, because the wordle will be available for all to see.
I think every mom or dad blogger should do this. And can I ask, if you do, could you comment it here with a link? I’d like to see them.
Here are the words we used:
Scott Debbie Carl Daniel Barrett Adelyn Anna Erik Foster Foster
Scott Debbie Carl Daniel Barrett Adelyn Anna Erik Foster Foster
Scott Debbie Carl Daniel Barrett Adelyn Anna Erik Foster Foster
picnics Superior Jamison Jamison Jamison Jamison Jamison Jamison Jamison Jamison picnics Fighter-Verse-Songs Fighter-Verse-Songs God God God God God worship singing biking Bethlehem ResponsibleFather ResponsiblePuppet jamsco legos bionicles Vadnais Baptist church 7Kids 7Kids memorizing homeschool adoption Minnesota glorifying-God peace joy love Bible Bible truth Psalm-1 Psalm-1 Planted-by-streams-of-water Armor-of-God geocaching
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August 10, 2009 at 7:40 am
philthecarl
That’s really cool! I’m going to create one of those and give it to Emily and Corban.
It would seem that Foster is getting some special treatment since his name was listed more that your other kids 🙂
August 10, 2009 at 10:47 am
jamsco
Good, Phil. I’d like to see it when it’s done.
And yes, Foster is not only a child, but he has been our families activity/project for nearly the last year.
August 17, 2009 at 10:45 am
Andy
Check ours out here.
August 18, 2009 at 11:27 am
jamsco
Both PhilTheCarl and Chris have created one.
See here:
http://philthecarl.blogspot.com/2009/08/family-wordle.html
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/1051563/Family_Wordle_2
September 18, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Tricia
You inspired my blog redo
http://www.naomirose.blogspot.com/
BTW do you and your wife have any good lines for the rude comments strangers make when you have more than 1.9 children? I’m looking for one to make my own. thanks 🙂
September 18, 2009 at 11:54 pm
jamsco
Do you get rude comments. We normally just get stares or people counting?
What do they say?
Nice Wordle, by the way.
September 19, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Tricia
“Don’t you know how that happens?” or “Whoa, you got your hands full!” are the most common. I could would like more Minnesota nice and less California bluntness 🙂
September 21, 2009 at 10:51 pm
jamsco
Oh, yes, we get “You have your hands full” but I always think that’s just people thinking they need to say something and it’s all they can think up at the moment. I mean that’s not that rude, is it?
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