A little skiing...a little sledding...some hot tubbing...lots of laughter.
A birthday celebration...my youngest finally up on skiis and flying down the hill...taking my oldest up to the very top of the mountain for the first time...the best four days of the year.
Well I made it to February but then the week from hell struck...student-led conferences, stomach flu and Olympic fever. Something had to give...turns out it was my creativity and along with it, my Project 365. Interestingly, I feel relieved. I didn't realize how much extra stress it was causing each day as I scrambled to be creative. I'm learning that photography can't be something that I force. If I feel like I have to do it, I don't enjoy it...it becomes yet another chore and I have enough of those... So I will admit defeat yet again. Oh well, there's always next year.
It's liberation day! For those of you who don't know, Lily is anaphylactic to milk protein. Since birth we have always had to be so vigilant about everything she eats. Her entire life she's had to avoid any store bought goodies. Birthday parties, classroom treats, goodies at birthday parties... she's never been able to partake. Well that has all changed. Today I discovered the Pink Sugar Cupcakery. Every delicious cupcake is completely dairy-free. I emailed the owner to chat and she confirmed that they are all made with soy milk and milk free margerine. I want to hug her. Finally someone has come to our rescue. So tonight we sampled the merchandise and omg they are good. And watching Lily eat her first store bought cupcake ever was the best treat of all.. Thanks Pink Sugar Cupcakery... you will be seeing alot of the Wray family.
...no, not my son... the other soon to be 40 year old "boy" in my life. It's going to be one epic weekend. I'm happy I won't be there to witness the carnage. I just hope he can actually watch the games through those giant beer goggles.
All I ask is that he comes home with all his teeth and doesn't wake up to a tiger in the bathroom.
Do I ever hate this time of year. The dreary weather is really getting to me these days. The long days stuck indoors is driving me bonkers. I'm running out of things to keep the kids occupied. I definitely think the friends of ours who decided to pack up and move to Costa Rica for a year had the right idea.
The bright side is that with each passing, dreary day we're getting ever so much closer to our trip to Mexico.. omg I just want to wake up and be there... this is how we passed some time on Saturday while it poured outside.. just playing around inside on a rainy day.
So the gadget addict in my life, my loving dh, gifted me with an iPhone recently... and I have to admit it's changed my life....I'm officially addicted. Since then, I've discovered the world of iPhoneography. There are entire flickr groups dedicated to photos taken with the iPhone...and the post-processing apps available for this thing are endless. While I can't really say I'm in love with the quality or clarity of the photos taken with the iPhone, there is something about it that reminds me of the instamatic cameras of my childhood. And unlike my heavy DSLR, the iPhone is always with me... and as Chase Jarvis says, "the best camera is the one you have with you"... here's a recent sampling.
Well I'm into week 3 of my Project 365 2010 and I haven't packed it in yet...so that's good. I wasn't prepared for how difficult this project was going to be. But I'm dedicated to it...not necessarily as a photography project but more as a way to document our lives over the next twelve months. My good friend and fellow photog Krysta passed along a great tip today on how to display photos from my 365 project. Thanks to the beauty of Flickr and Big Huge Labs I was able to create a mosiac for the past 9 days that links back to my photostream. I'll try to do this often as I go along.
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