A Day In The Life | The Documentation

Totally loving how you simply GOT IT DONE. I'm finally working on my photos from yesterday and will hopefully get my blog post up before Little Man wakes from his nap. Here's to the less than an hour I still have!

I feel so grateful that you continue to share so much of yourself through what must be a very difficult time in life. Your work keeps me inspired to continue scrapbooking and living in a very authentic way....thank you. :)

Ali, I love this! I wish I had participated!

awesome. also, I am OBSESSED with the wall paint in Anna's ballet studio. how cool.

Oh boy...I started gung ho and it turned into a life-changing day, only not for the better. Unfortunately my mom, who lives with us, is almost certainly having a reoccurence of a very agressive cancer. Asking for prayers, I am taking her for the biopsy tomorrow. My mom is such a sweetheart, lives with us, is an angel grandmother to my kids. I am glad I documented this day because it is going to be an important day to look back on, right now the feelings are raw and scary.

Such beautiful pictures of an ordinary day - really makes you thankful for the little things.

Can you tell me where the black and white pencil bag (makeup bag?) on your desk is from? I'm always on the lookout for great pencil bags and that one is so cute plus it looks a little bigger than most...

Your cat reminds me of my Beardsly, although he probably has a little more white in him. I like that you can get nice photos of your cat. Beardsly won't cooperate at all. When I bring the camera out, he thinks it is time to attack it.

Is the template for PSE only?

Love how the new addition to the household - George - is featured so prominantly. :)

I have a cat named George, too (and also, one named Henry).

Georges make great cats.

I did my own DITL, as inspired by you. Ours was an 'ordinary' day as well, and looking back at the pictures (taken all on my phone as an added challenge) they might seem slightly uninteresting to me now, but know that they'll be fun to look back on in years to come when our son is older and no longer a baby. :)

Awesome! Love the "looking down from above" shots and what a fantastic room for Anna to have her ballet classes in. Love the stripes.

I had a great time doing this yesterday so much so that I think I will do it every month on the 8th! I even got my daughter to text me some photos from college that I included in my layout. Loved the template that you created it fit so many photos and since many of mine are instagram the squares were perfect. I have found that as my kids are getting older they really don't want me taking their photo with the DSLR but are okay with the iphone so I have lots of phone photos of them. Thanks for sharing your day with us.

Very nice. I'm thinking about documenting February 29th...Leap day. I think it would be neat to see how we spend our extra day this year.

Wow, Ali. I don't comment often, but I have to tell you how inspiring it was to see and read about your ordinary day. I really love your record sheets - especially that the second one includes a gratitude section. I know you're going through a tough time, and it's great to see that you're still stopping to record the details like this. You truly are an inspiration!

For some reason, it gives me a lot of reassurance to see that you too have scrapbook supplies on the floor. It's like I am not the only one out there. :)

I always love when you do these Ali! I definitely want to do one again and wish that yesterday had worked out for me to do so. I love how you included the pets in your documentation too! I've read your blog for YEARS and I have to say that I'm worried for you - I don't think I've ever seen you seem so tired. I hope you are okay and that you had more to eat yesterday than coffee, chips & salsa! Big hug!! :)

I fell in love with the day-in-the-life documenting this past fall. I did a whole week and they are my FAV pics from 2011! It was fun to do a whole week, because it is hard to capture "normal" in our home! We homeschool and have 6 children and each day looks a little different. :) I have a 4 inch stack of photos to squeeze into my PL album for that week, but they will be so neat to look back on!

So love this! I wasn't planning to participate, photographically speaking, but I made a list of my entire day to add to my PL, and am good with that! Question: what setting do you have your camera on when you take pics of the kids in low light situations - like when Simon was in bed reading...and, No.2: when you do self-portraits, I see that you use your remote (which I have), but how do you focus your camera on yourself when you're behind the camera focusing, and not in the chair???? There's probably a simple answer and I'm just putting too much thought into it, but I'd love to do self-portraits and mine always come out with me being blurry. P.S. I have a Canon - looking to upgrade to the Mark II in April! :D

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I love those sheets- those are a great idea and might help me along with COMPLETING one of these, not just having extra pics lol