Our January in Images | The Parenthood Project

My husband and I started a pretty special (to us) project this year. We decided we would aim to take a daily (or close to daily), image of our family. It could be anything relevant to our own story. It didn’t have to always be deep or profound or even beautiful, it just had to be whatever was indicative or our moods/children/family in that moment. We made it all through January with 31 images. I took one yesterday but didn’t post it.

Then we decided if this was going to stick, we were going to take the pressure off. We started a page to keep accountable on Facebook, but we both will only now be posting images a couple times a week instead of daily since real life has to happen here too. Balance doesn’t exist for us, but being realistic is a pretty important part of the process. We also decided maybe there is an image here or there we might find too intimate to share… and maybe that will change with time, but we need to be flexible.

Even still here is my perspective for the month of January. Full captions can be found respectively here on the Parenthood Project page, along with Wes’s images.

I think what has proved to be the most amazing thing so far however is watching our children grow. You don’t see it everyday. It sneaks up on you. Going through the images however, you see their personality shine on through. You watch their features morph and mature. You learn so much more about the people they will be and not just who they are in that very moment. Having six children, it is yet another way to celebrate them as individuals. There isn’t a day I don’t rejoice in being their mother.

I don’t know what a year from now will hold… I just know that if this sticks, at the end of the year our children will have a very special gift indeed. They will have a tangible record of how loved they really are.

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