Daily Diary – April 22 2010

This is a snapshot of my neighbor’s plant.

Here we are on day 4. I took a lot of photos today. As promised, I tried to get myself in more shots. I used my little camera, gave it to David, and tried taking photos with extending my arm. I even used Photobooth.

Can’t say any of them came out so well, but I still am happy I have them. I also snapped some of Jake and Nathaniel.

And here he is playing with the Tivo remote. Seriously his favorite thing to do.

And here he is, after finishing his teething biscuit. I gave it to him so he could be quiet during my phone meeting. He made a mess, of course.

Then we went to pick up David and he got to play in the playground for a bit and even got to go into the office and play with the trains. I love watching them play together.

Since our CSA arrived yesterday, I got to have a super healthy lunch. Salad, carrots, cucumbers, cheese, vinegar, and oil. Zucchini with onions and a little cheese. Two slices of bread. Preparation time: 8 minutes. I don’t know why I get too lazy to do this everyday.

After another failed nap attempt, and a bunch of work, we took a short walk to the park with our neighbor Sara and her son Matthew. Nathaniel did this funny thing where he kept raising this one leg and would not put it down. I couldn’t tell why but he seemed to keep doing it.

David ran around and fell a bunch of times and picked flowers for me.

We then came home for dinner, some play time, and bed.

Well I am off to do today’s pages.

Note to Self:
Here are some things I’ve come to realize about the week in the life project:
– It only works for me if I actually get to work on it everyday as the day happens. Even a day later, I cannot remember much anymore and I definitely lose enthusiasm for capturing it.
– I need to take more portrait shots, if I want to use the baseball card pockets. My shots always tend to favor landscape.
– I need to focus on each day’s writing. I can’t remember everything and I’d love to have a focus or two daily so I can capture those things and have a well-rounded set of journaling cards for the week. Trying to do that from here on out. Still 3 more days left.
– I am loving how the digital bits have turned out so far. Still not sure if I will print it out. Trying not to make the decision yet. The good thing is, I can get it printed anytime.

Three Things I’m Grateful For:
1. I am grateful for the week in the life project. I love the fact that I am capturing so much of our daily, ordinary life. I know it will be even more meaningful years from now.
2. I am grateful for our quick walk around. I need to get out and into the sunshine more often. And be around other adults more often, too.
3. I am grateful for my family. My husband. My kids. My parents. My sister. My nephews. I have so much and I am so thankful.

Two Things David’s Grateful For:
1. Making ice cream at school. They used a “magic liquid” David tells me.
2. He got to have a little bit of chocolate ice cream today and he loved it.