This is my personal project and one that is very close to my heart: Photographing one whole day in my life, it began a few years ago on Monday Jan 1, 2018 when I did 1 day a week switching days each week which I did for two years and then for year three I only did them for each full moon and changed the format of them. Now I'm in my fourth year of doing this project, I began with the intention of doing them weekly but that hasn't been happening so I'm doing them whenever it feels right up until I reach Week 52 but still focusing on our weekends or when we are all together and have returned to my original way of doing them which is choosing 25 images for the day. Hope you enjoy following along!
Week 36 Year 2
It's our 4th proper Wednesday together and I am really loving this one on one time with you. And it's also really great for me too, to be able to have some me time during the day while you sleep. I have even been able to breathe new life into my meditation practice. It's not every day like it used to be before I became a mother but at least I get to do it consistently once a week.
Week 35 Year 2
You my little Forrest just love being amongst nature where you can explore with your little fingers and put basically everything into your mouth.. I couldn't take my eyes off you for a second before you'd stuff your mouth full of old rotting acorns.. And you still love to eat moss...
Week 34 Year 2
For the past couple of months I have not been very good at keeping up with this project and have been doing it on random days.To be absolutely honest for the past couple of months I haven't been doing very well at all mentally and I realised that maybe it could be postnatal depression.
Week 33 Year 2
I had been looking forward to today all week ever since we made plans to have a girly day out to Bournemouth just the two of us. It was something that you and I both really needed, Just some time to truly be able to connect with each other without my attention always being broken because of Forrest.
Week 32 Year 2
It's been a tiring few days. We've had a house full of poorly people. Forrest, you ended up getting hand foot and mouth disease, and then the spots started appearing the next day and even though you are much better, your blisters look really angry and on sat night, you, Nixie came down with a high fever that's been coming and going since.
Week 31 Year 2
We all woke up just before 6:00 and that included daddy because he's working from home today. But before starting work he needs to get to brockenhurst to wait for the RAC guy to come and have a look at our car. On his way home last night it wouldn't start.
Week 30 Year 2
I jumped out of bed and went downstairs so that we could begin our dinosaur egg hatching. You love baby dinosaurs more than anything and were so excited, you loved guessing which dinosaur it was going to be to hatch. Then you would carefully place them into their bowl nest to rest while some of the other babies helped the others hatch.
Week 29 Year 2
From the moment you (Nixie) wake up you are still in full force all about dinosaurs and talking about carnivores and herbivores, talking about how birds don't have teeth and how the triceratops take care of it's babies and a million other things, you are absolutely fascinated by dinosaurs, it's all you're interested in talking about!
Week 28 Year 2
What a glorious day we had! We have some of our favourite people visiting from London for the week and this was our first morning together. You (Forrest) and I got up first and headed downstairs only to find Kayleigh, Rex and Zach already in the lounge, turned out they didn't have the best first night and sweet little Rex couldn't sleep so they all ended up sleeping downstairs!
Week 27 Year 2
I thought he was going to fall asleep but didn't so once you finished eating we had another go with messy play, this time instead of Greek yogurt we used condensed milk and this was so much better! In the background we had Beatles playing, and every time Lucy in the sky with diamonds comes on you get super excited...
Week 26 Year 2
And it is that time again for another entry for Artefact motherhood, a collaboration of artists & mothers from around the world..It was such an amazing day, I had been looking forward to this experience for such a long time! It was day 2 of our first camping trip as a family of four. Even though I barely got any sleep I woke up feeling so good, being out in the woods has a way of always making me feel better. And Nixie, you had been missing all of our camping adventures. It's something we have all missed.
Week 25 Year 2
It was a crazy long day! We headed to London so I could collect my passport & then followed by a trip to the Natural History Museum so that you could get your Dino fix and where I had one of the scariest moments of my life where I thought I had lost you! And on the way home we had car problems and spent a lot of time at service stations which made it so that we didn't get home until close to 1am!