Why I pull out my camera every day(And why I think you should too)!
This is my second year starting a 365 project. If you don’t know what that is, it essentially means you take one picture every single day. Last year, although I shot almost every day, I fell off on posting it every day. Social media, man, it just gets to me sometimes and I have to take a break. I’m determined to share it for real this year though and I cant wait to see what I create by the end of the year!
We look forward to the photo book I print up at the end of the year. They pull the photo books out regularly and sit flipping through them. It makes all of the work so worth it. I love that my kids have this tangible reminder of the good in our days.
Because that’s the thing, isn’t it? Every day we are shaping and making memories with these tiny humans, and sometimes, I worry that they will only remember me being frustrated. But they have these small reminders that our days really were filled with so much good. Even on the hard days. And my hope, by doing this, is that I’m shaping them up to remember more of the good than the hard.
Today, I jumped on Facebook and in my memories was a video of Ella from only a year ago. I could hardly remember her looking like that. When it comes down to it, the things we think we would never forget, sometimes end up slipping our mind. I have cherished having these tokens of every stage of our life. It all goes so fast. They change constantly. Those little chubby, dimply knees give way to kid knees. That face that was always covered in whatever they were eating, eventually stays clean during meals. Those little details that make up your whole life for a while, they change, always, and being able to remember is so valuable to me.
It’s easy to think your everyday is boring. That you don’t have anything to document. But the truth is, we will long for this season of “boring, messy, cluttered” at some point and wish we had really stopped to take it all in. Eventually everything will just be a memory and that’s why I’m so passionate about this work. About documenting our one beautiful, ordinary life. We won’t get this time back, and neither will you! Eventually we will only have the pictures we’ve taken to help transport us back to this spot, this hectic, chaotic, wonderful spot that we are in the thick of now.
If you have a hard time seeing the beauty through the mess and chaos, I’m here for you! If you’re too exhausted to pull out that camera and take that picture, if you’re overwhelmed by this season, I completely get it. In those instances (and even if you’ve got this thing down!), I think, the best thing you can do is to get someone to come to your home and document it all for you. Let me show you the beauty of your life; clutter, messes, mismatched decor and all! I promise it’s worthy and that you will have pictures you’ll cherish for years and years to come! Your kids will flip through the book you make for them a thousand times and eventually, your grandchildren will be transported back to this time when their parents were tiny and their grandparents were in the thick of this parenting thing. Let me capture your beautiful ordinary life and show you just how breathtaking I find it to be!
