I generally take a few hundred photos a month that I end up keeping and using in our family photo books. By the looks of it, I’m by far more inspired to shoot when the weather is nice and we have time to spend as a family. The last month of last year, December 2015, I took only 80 photos that I thought were worth keeping. As someone who loves tradition and being with my family, the rush of the holidays tend to feel overwhelming and not fully authentic sometimes. Maybe that’s just part of having small children and trying to keep them rested, healthy and polite during a season of giving and receiving. Here we are now, mid-February, and I’m just now pulling out presents that they got and we’re finding pure joy in them. It isn’t lost on me that we have a wide range of people that love on our girls, their community is far-reaching, so many fun things and parts of our brains and bodies to use these presents. But all at one time, it’s hard to feel appreciative totally. So, here we are, months later, feeling super appreciative. I’m a big one for thank-you notes, but this year I wrote them and didn’t follow through on sending them, save but a few. It just felt blah, to be honest. Lots of December was that way, but I don’t want to ignore it and it’s worth glancing at. Enjoy the glimpse.
