Hoarder

Just to note for posterity that we are thoroughly entrenched in the "treasure" stage that I only can assume nabs all little girls at some point.

At least, I hope we aren't the only ones.

This hoarding almost has me at my breaking point. I pride myself on rarely losing ANYTHING, and even more so, I can almost always pinpoint other people's things (ahem, Erik). However, when Ellen whines about the location of one particular outside rock / stick / sparkly Chapstick / board book, it makes me want to throw every bit of it away. Don't think I haven't threatened.

Ok, then. That's all the venting for today.

Slacker

Gah, sorry about the lack of posting.

I have nothing of merit to write, except that my mother reminded me about "springing forward" this weekend. That's just rude, daylight savings time.

So ... I wish you luck. That is all.

Tip o' the day

Since the iPhone came into my life, I have been terrible with taking pictures with my real camera. Life has been busy, too, but excuses excuses excuses.

I just uploaded all of my pictures from February (probably the fewest in any month since Ells was born) and virtually all of them are upstairs at bedtime. I kind of like it, though, since that isn't something you usually think to take pictures of, but still spend ALL OF YOUR LIFE DOING.

So ... take your camera upstairs. Leave it there. Grab it for story hour or bath time or teeth brushing or general mischief / stalling.

I think you will be happy you did.

Broken record

Are you bored yet with my insistence of photographing your child in everyday circumstances and/or my insistence to get yourself in pictures with your kids???

I am failing at both, by the way.

I do (someday) hope to be better, though.

I thought this picture from Rachel at Sesame Ellis was really stunning:



Doesn't it just perfectly capture the moment? Something that probably happens all the time, yet is so beautiful. It obviously helps that she has the skills to capture the lighting and composition, but me thinks it is something to strive for.

Along the same lines, I find that Pinterest has some nice links to photography things. Here is my Photo board. There were some great shots in this blog post on Photographing Your Own Children by Chubby Cheek Photography.