So, at the beginning of the (calendar) year, I had the crazy notion of documenting our entire year via photos. That meant taking a photo EVERY DAY. At the time, it seemed like a decent idea, especially since I had ample opportunities for a variety of photos, and it encouraged me to take photos of Hunter (I've heard that photos of the second child are significantly less than those of the first). All went well for the first month or so, but then, life became, well stayed, really, life. How many photos of the kids playing could I really take? How many messy food pictures? And what about the totally contrived, last minute mundane photos when I realized that I hadn't documented anything that day?
Thus came June. Sometime during that month I realized that I was going to abandon this project. It had lost its appeal, and I, the clutter-hater that I am, didn't want any sort of digital clutter taking up space on the computer. Besides, I'm behind on my scrapbooks as is, so why would I want to pressure myself with photos that weren't even scrapbook worthy? (And, to be honest, I did happen to forget to take photos one day.)
And so I'm free of this self-imposed restriction. Ahhh, freedom. Freedom to enjoy the moments as they come, taking a visual snapshot each day, and an actual one on occasion. For no matter how hard I try, I won't be able to stop time or capture every single moment. Instead, I'll just savor them.
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