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Favorites from February

Girl sleeps on couch with cat. Photo by VSD Photography

I looked back through the pictures I took in February and pulled out a couple of my favorites. I’m trying to be more intentional about capturing life. Funny that a photographer has to remind herself to get her camera out to capture her family. Click on any picture to see them larger. The picture aboveContinue reading “Favorites from February”

Feb’s Photo Challenge

For someone who has gotten used to having mostly a zoom lens on my camera for the past four years, shooting with a prime lens, and forcing my feet to do the zooming, was challenging at first. Using a zoom lens makes it easy to adjust your optical distance to the subject. A prime lensContinue reading “Feb’s Photo Challenge”

I expect the sleep

Now that we no longer have toddlers, I fully expect to sleep until my alarm wakes me up in the morning. And yet, the sleep is becoming elusive. Our youngest daughter, who just turned ten, has begun having trouble sleeping through the night. She hears things. She gets paranoid by the things she hears. SheContinue reading “I expect the sleep”

Birthday Blessings

Project Edit 365 is one year old! What a year! A year ago I was stuck in a rut with photography and blogging, both. I wanted to be motivated to post more and I wanted to do something with my photography. For the whole year, each day, I took a photo I had previously takenContinue reading “Birthday Blessings”

School anywhere

There are so many benefits to homeschooling. Being able to snuggle up in blankets on the couch on a cold day is just one of them. When we lived in the DC area (both times), our houses were very small. There was no dedicated homeschool space. School usually happened at the dining room table. I’mContinue reading “School anywhere”

Falling down laughing

The craziness never stops around here. I don’t even remember what was happening, or if she started crying after she fell. I do know that she’s laughing here! She probably didn’t fall either; she’s probably rocking back and forth. I saw this as I was going through all my January pics and knew I wantedContinue reading “Falling down laughing”