Week 5 | 2019

It is still VERY cold, and we are still getting used to being a two dog family. Sometimes the dogs bark at night. This is disruptive to sleep, like when you have a newborn baby. Except the dogs are not exactly squishy and delicious like newborn babies. Also, I am still house training the puppy while it is brutally cold outside. Except when we had a day when it was randomly 60 degrees, which meant super muddy dogs running through the house. I really still love them though, and they continue to make (most of) our family very happy (most of the time).

What else?

Baking for a 5th grade science experiment.

The first time my kids ate at IHOP.

A dance party, including the dogs.

Hat day.

And always, LEGO playing.

Week 4 | 2019

We got a new puppy last week, and that about sums up what I have been doing. Trying to housebreak a puppy during a polar vortex, or any January in Nebraska, is obviously challenging.

I am puzzled when I see people who seem to be doing so many things. I parent, take my kids to activities, clean my house, do laundry, exercise daily, take some kind of photo each day, try to read a book each week, and that is my limit. If you add a puppy on top of that, wow. That really does it.

I meant to start Project Life again this year (the digital version), but I have not done that. I am hoping to find some time this weekend to pull it together, and then stay on top of it. We are no longer doing Chatbooks as a result of some quality issues, and I want to make sure that I am still regularly printing photos for my kids. They love seeing photos in print. So of all the things I need to squeeze on to the list of things, I am going to try to make that one a priority. I am also hoping to do 1 Second a Day this month.

Otherwise… I am taking lots of puppy photos, drinking too much coffee, trying to stay warm, trying to spend less time on social media, and looking for all of the great things about living in a place where we get to experience four seasons.

Week 3 | 2019

I am picking up my camera pretty randomly, and I can’t say that I have taken my photos for this project with much advance intention so far. Maybe this week I will try to come up with a list of photo goals, things I want to capture, and techniques I want to try. I did pull a child into my studio this week, which ended up resulting in unexpected portraits featuring our cat, Sophie. She just showed up. I also have a few photos taken out and about with my Fuji X100F. The Costco and library photos were both Fuji photos, and they are weirdly symmetrical.

The lightbox sign belongs to my daughter, and this message was for the day this week when we had a rescue puppy home visit from the dog we are hoping to adopt. I am waiting right now to see if we have been selected as this puppy’s family. We have never had two dogs at the same time, but I feel ready. I think. Once you start considering the possibility of adding a dog to your family, you are going to get the dog. You may as well just go for it.