Lunch with the Boy

Today's photo was taken at lunch with my little man. I love sitting down with him and hearing about all that is going on in his little world. Today he reminded me that Daddy took down the tree and the Santa Train. He is having a hard time letting go of Christmas, thus the Santa hat!



Yesterday, I got so much accomplished around the house so my photo is the newly cleaned and mostly organized loft.

A Slow Start

It's Tuesday and I haven't journaled yet - so much for that! I have taken photos for Sunday, Monday and today - they are following. The photo I should have taken for today was Michael leaving for Paducah. But it was at 5am and I just didn't have the gumption for that! He finally got an opportunity to change careers and is in Paducah training for it. He will be selling educational software to schools and school districts. He is so excited about the potential for this business! Short term, we will still be struggling since he is 100% commission but the long-term potential is much better than anything he has seen recently. I am so happy for him - he has needed this for a long time.

The picture I chose to take today is one of Maddie and Lucy in my bed (since Michael is not home). Hopefully there is room for me! Lucy loves to sleep with us when the other is gone, and since Maddie has been coming down in the middle of the night pretty much every night, I just let her sleep with me all night. The photo from Sunday is ice skating with Girl Scouts and yesterday's photo is Sam totally enthralled with a chip clip! He figured out that if he clipped one of his animal magnets, then opened the clip, the magnet would fall to the floor. He laughed every time! Great physics lesson!

New Year, New Ideas, New Everything

I love the beginning of every year. It is such a great time to take stock of the past year, figure out what worked, what didn't, and how to make the new year better than the last. This year shouldn't be that hard! Last year, we went through a very challenging year, as most people did. Michael was in his 2nd year of transitioning jobs, I started a new business, and I still felt like we needed to keep things the same for the kids. That led to me doing way too much and ending the year feeling very worn out. So, I have lots of ideas for this year.

One is to journal more. I want to be able to express my feelings better and journaling is a good way to do that. Practice makes perfect, right? I spend a ton of energy on taking photos but not so much on adding the words and feelings to the photos. That's what I want to focus on this year. This blog might be a good way to do that, which leads me to the next idea - Project 365. I have read about it and am ready to put myself to the challenge. Take a photo every day for a year. By uploading the pictures to this blog, and adding the words to the photo, I might be able to kill to birds with one stone - write better and become a better photographer.

These are just two of my great ideas for 2009. The others have to do with organizing our home, being a better mom, wife, friend, improving my prayer life and taking better care of the only body I have been given. Seems like a lot - I hope I can get to it all in some fashion. In the meantime, I will start my photo and journal project tomorrow. There's lots going on, we'll see what photo I choose to post!