This year I have decided to do project 365 and since I am on my computer every day that I would do it here. I tried this same thing last year and it kind of fell by the wayside as other things in life started happening and I got busier and busier I just stopped logging on to my blog and eventually forgot about it and P365 altogether. This year though I am back with a new resolve!!
Why you ask? Well over the past few months I have started to realize that I have very nearly stopped taking pictures. I used to be the one that always had my camera in hand snapping away. I LOVED going through all those pictures and having them printed and looking through them again and again. Even taking the time out to scrapbook them and journal on every page. It was my "thing" and I enjoyed every minute of it. I don't know WHY I have turned in to someone that only digs out the camera on special occasions or WHAT happened to the me that I was then but I do know that it needs to change back to that again. I miss my pictures and I miss the fun I always had putting it all together. SO this year I am doing Project 365.
I WILL take at least one picture every day in 2014. I will not let it go so that not only do I not take those pictures but I have to search to find my camera. (Yes I had to do that for Thanksgiving!!) I want to document this year and have a record of what happened and how out family grows. We are expecting our first Grandchild this year and I want to remember all of that. This is also the year that my youngest daughter will be starting Kindergarten, my other daughter will be starting her Senior year in High School, my youngest son will start kiddie football, my middle son will be continuing in choir and karate and guitar, and the oldest - well he's the one going to be a dad. I want to remember all of this. But not just through memories in my own head. I want to be able to come here and SEE it. Read my thoughts at the time and really REMEMBER what happened and what was there at that moment. Memories fade and change over time and I don't want to fall victim to that in 2014. Also no one else can read and see it all if you don't put it out there somewhere and I would like for my kids and grandson to be able to see what the year held for all of us. But more than that to see what MOM thought and felt through it all.
So here goes. Wednesday is the 1st of the year and I am going to start this off right. :) I even already know where the camera is!
