For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a storyteller.
When I was a child, I would write long-winded stories in colorful spiral notebooks. As a teenager, I traded in fiction for scrapbooking and told the stories of my adventures with a combination of photos and cardstock. Now as a busy mother, I’ve left the paper products behind for an even easier method: journaling our beautiful everyday here on this blog.
This week, I will be participating in Ali Edward’s project, Week in the Life. I hope this will be a time capsule of sorts of our time right now in late summer 2015. My goal is to remember us at the beginning of our school year, with one foot still in summer’s goodness and the other preparing for all that autumn has to come. This project will be a more intense version of my weekly “Around Here” posts, but the general feeling is the same: capturing our everyday in photographs and telling the stories behind it.
I will be attempting to post each day’s photos and stories on the following day. So Monday’s photos will go up on Tuesday, Tuesday’s on Wednesday, etc. Most people who do this project take their photographs and create a physical album, but I am content to simply add it into the Blurb book I’m making with all of my weekly posts.
A few notes about my goals/hopes for this week:
- I want to try to attempt a self-portrait each day. This may not always be my face (feet or hands count too!), but I’d like to rise above the critical thoughts of myself and include what I look like at 30-years-old, even if that includes no makeup and a top knot.
- I’d like a photo of everyone all together. I’d love one of all seven of us, but even all the kids together would be great.
- I want to find detail shots of rooms/areas of our home that I normally don’t photograph. I also hope to challenge myself with zooming out and showing more of an entire room, messes included.
- I’d like to photograph what each of us is “into” these days: favorite shirts, toys, books, movies, etc.
- I want to take shots of some of our meals, especially the ones that feel like summer.
- I may document the super play-by-play of our day once, but I haven’t decided when.
Here we go!
