The last two years that I have done a "photo a day" (2009 & 2011), I have used a calendar template via my blog provider Typepad to keep track of my photos online. I love the visual organization the calendar offers, but most of all I love that I have journaling for all my photos in an easily accessible place.
This year I am trying to relax a bit and aiming for more of a weekly approach in my Project Life album. I will still do one two-page spread for each week, I just might not necessarily have a photo for every single day. I do still very much want to focus on capturing our daily lives (which is what I truly love about the photo a day concept), so I still plan to try to take a photo on most days, I just don't want to feel quite so pressured to feel like there has to be a photo for each and every day.
This means that the calendar format won't necessarily work as well for me this year. Yet I still want a place to post my pictures + journaling for each week. So instead I am going to try having a weekly post dedicated just to the photos I plan to use in my main Project Life spread for that particular week. Here's Week 1...
Week in Review: We rang in 2012 surrounded by extended family in New Jersey, and then as our holiday break drew to a close we spent the remainder of the week easing back into our regular school + work + everyday life routines.
The girls with Matt's parents (Grandma Kathy & Grandpa Beau) on New Year's Day.
Waiting for Claire outside the ballet studio.
Cold day, hot chocolate. I made a little after school treat for the girls on Wednesday, the coldest day of winter so far. By the end of the week though, temperatures were pushing 60 degrees... and we still haven't had any snow! But I can't complain after our overdose of the white stuff last winter.
We love these Swedish moccasins during the winter, although in our house we have always called them mukluks. Each of the girls has at least two pairs and they wear them to bed every night during the cold months.
My jewelry lover trying on my necklaces.
Thursday morning. Lucy can be such a ham when she feels like it. If she sees the camera she will tilt her head just so, smile, and say "cheese!"