Week In The Life : Tuesday

WAY better pics than me. I will do better today. I will, I will, I will......

My favorite shot is the opening page for Monday. It is one of my youngest daughter and I. She has hit the teenaged years and is not so willing to have her picture taken anymore, so I was thrilled that she was willing to pose with me for this one!
http://seriousplay.typepad.com/cinback/2010/04/witl-day-1.html

I am loving this project! Thanks Ali!
http://3peasinbrooklyn.blogspot.com/2010/04/photography-week-part-1.html

Hi Donna - thanks for asking :). We are adding more previews today so you can better see what's included...such as exactly which tabs and which journal cards :).

I'm blogging my progress at www.growingupsharp.blogspot.com
Lovin' it!!

This is the link to my favorite photo by far...
http://xnomads.typepad.com/blog/2010/04/my-favorite-photo-from-tuesday.html

Thanks for your encouragement, Ali. I have been reading a book in conjunction with the Week in the Life project since I am on vacation this week from my job working as a teacher with children on the autism spectrum. The book is called cold tangerines: celebrating the extraordinary nature of everyday life by Shauna Niequist. There is a link to the book with several chapters at www.shaunaniequist.com. The chapter "on waiting" links right up with the Week in the Life project and in documenting everyday life in my mind. I don't know if you are familiar with it but I wanted to share it with you.

I forgot to leave my link to see my pictures when I commented earlier.... http://everydaymemorieswithprojectlife.blogspot.com
Have a good day everyone!!

Ali, you are so inspiring.
I read your blog and about come out of my skin with excitement (kind of like too much caffeine!). But it does seem so overwhelming. A lot of planning, which I'm not there yet.
What I think I would get out of doing this is really being "present" to my life. Rather than each day being a blur. Thank you!!

Great photos. I think I need to be in more. I have a couple, but I like seeing you in lots of them. Where's Chris?
I think I JUST took my favorite pic. Yesterday I bought my 6yo new tennies that tie- and we tried to teach him how to tie them. This am, he got up in his jammies to show me he learned how last night! So I got a shot of his hands and shoes (with movement blur, but that's ok). :)

Happily taking photos and keeping up. While I am low on the #, I have just what I want. Today is a sick day, something I have never documented. It should be interesting to capture it.

My favourite picture was the one of me cooking dinner. It's technically pretty bad and not very interesting to others but I love that I have a pic of myself cooking...takes up such a large part of my day and I never think to document it.
http://tutusandchaos.blogspot.com/

Here is the picture of me at the library.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GFpAJi5iFAU/S88gvbYyxLI/AAAAAAAABuc/XkTYtCFtiAA/s1600/at+library.jpg
I am trying to blog my progress as well but I am keeping an open word doc on my computer to jot down all my thoughts. I am trying to express more of my feelings this time around.
http://lkacreations.blogspot.com/

This is the first time I've done Week in the Life, and the whole family is involved. My 6 year old daughter summed up every detail of her day on Monday while I typed it up. I'm embarrassed to admit that it was the first time I found out about some of the cool things she does at school! Thank you for having me slow down, ask the right questions, and really listen to the answers.

Wow Ali!!! realmente es un proyecto ambicioso e inspirador, inicié con mis fotografías, aunque realmente son pocas si pieso que en una sesión para un album tomo de 50 a 100, entonces para un dia deberían salir muchas más, pero aunque mi cámara está siempre conmigo mis actividades me hacen olvidar que debo fotografiar...ya me acostumbraré...me encanta la idea, finalmente es el objetivo: dejar plasmado el testimonio de la vida, capturar la imagen con la fotografía y enriquecer la esencia con las palabras, es realmente hermoso, aunque no se si sea capaz de hacerlo, ya de por si mi vida es un caos de papel....no imagino la próxima semana, pero si procuraré dejar documentado mi primer proceso de documentar un semana!!!
Saludos

I noticed & loved all the flowers too. :)

I'm a little behind with the downloading and journaling part of this, but I do have pictures and other "stuff" collected. Just need to sort through and post a link here at a later time...check back...it'll keep me honest!
Ali, I love how genuine you are and want you to know how much I appreciate all the tips and photos you are posting. Awesome inspiration!!! For the first time today, I put my camera on my dashboard and took a photo.

Ali, I am *so* enjoying this project! In 2008 I took the photos, but did not complete the album. I think I'm going to go back and use those photos and add the journaling that I remember... I still think it'll be so cool to look at. This year I'm keeping it simple... taking the photos, sorting and blogging some of the best to work through them. Keeping journaling each day by writing things down as I go. Next week I plan to put it all together. Thanks *so* much!
Here's my post from Monday's pictures:
http://www.joyfulmomofmany.com/2010/04/week-in-life-monday.html
~susan

You always have beautiful flowers scattered around your home! I've had days with that many pics... takes longer to sort through and clean them out than it does to take them! Makes me nostalgic for the days of film... Don't get me wrong, far more benefits to digi, but in many ways easier. There were not hundreds of pictures to sort through!

I took lots of lots of pictures too.
One is at my midwife as I got acupuncture to make the birth of our first daughter easier. Will it help? I don't know yet.
http://s5.directupload.net/file/d/2136/rva4jvl2_jpg.htm
And the second shot is to document the growth of my belly. Feels like it's exploding recently!!!
http://s5.directupload.net/file/d/2136/psf3rtsp_jpg.htm
I like, that they are not perfectly in focus and best quality. Thats what makes it a snapshot that documents the magic of the moment in my eyes!!!
It is an amazing journey, and I am happy to feel triggered to document it more!!!
Thanks!