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I love the feeling of hope a new year brings.  It’s not really different than last year, but changing the calendar gives me courage to make changes in myself.  She will be changing much more than I will this year.  She’ll start to stand and then walk.  She’ll turn her babble into sounds that she hears around her and we will hear what she has to say.  All I’m planning to do is clean the basement.

Maybe you don’t get discouraged by how few things you can accomplish in a day.  I do.  As I’m waking up I think about things I need to do.  Sometimes I write the ideas down but most of the time the list is in my head.  Make dentist appointments.  Clean off the buffet in the dining room that is piled high with all manner of papers and whatnot.  Do laundry and put it all away!  Make bread with Atticus. The list goes on.  I get out of bed.  The girls are fighting.  Augusta wants me to hold her.  I want some coffee.  Here we go.

I look around at three in the afternoon when the girls are about to come home and think, “What have I gotten done today?”

Today, I was starting to feel like it was another one of those days.  I got out a piece of paper. Instead of writing a to do list, I started writing down things I had already done. The list was longer than I’d expected.  It looks like I underestimate how much I do every day at least as much as I overestimate what I can get done in a day.

The buffet is still covered in papers. The kids have dentist appointments in a few weeks and some clean socks.

I started this blog after my year of pictures in 2010.  Last year I did 40 Friday Photos.  A picture every day was too much.  A picture almost every week wasn’t enough.  

Last week I was looking at a mother/photographer’s blog. She was doing her project to record the year for her family.  This is the third year she’s done it.  All of the photos are of her family, unapologetically. I’ve been checking it every day.

For the past week or so, I’ve posted a photo every day.  I like it.  It’s not a photo from every day of the year.  This one is from a few weeks ago but I never got around to posting it. (The lips!!) I’m not committing to doing it for a year.  If I miss a day, I won’t quit.  But, I’m going to try it: post at least one photo every day. 

Six Months

This first photo is from January. It is from the delightful second trimester of pregnancy. 

During this time, the kids would get excited about feeling the baby.  When I would sit down, they would ask, “Is the baby moving now?” Hiccups were fun since they offered more chances at feeling something.  My oldest girl asked what it felt like for me when the baby moved.  I tried to describe it and realized that there is nothing to compare it to.  It is a feeling like nothing else.

From experience, it is a feeling I know I’ll miss.  After our baby is born, I’ll feel some rumbling and think to myself, “There’s the baby.”  Then I’ll look down at the actual baby and think, “No.  Here’s the baby.”

Nine Months