Three Hundred and Sixty Five Days Later…
Whew! I did it. I took and posted one picture for (almost) every day of the twins’ first year. (I didn’t take every single picture—Rachel took probably about a third of the daily photos. And we’re missing Day Four, sadly: it was our second-to-last day in the hospital, and the night before had been pretty rough, and I only ended up taking a total of two blurry pictures that day.)
Two obvious questions came up time and again about the daily photo project. First, why would I do such a thing? Rachel and I always wanted to have two children, although we didn’t plan to be quite so efficient about it. Knowing that this was our only trip through baby-ville, I wanted to make sure it was well-documented. Having these pictures is going to be wonderful. I threw them together into a slideshow for their birthday party, and it was really great to watch all 728 of them go by.
The second question was, how long would I keep up the daily pictures? My stock answer was, “Until they stop me.” I was planning on taking a photo a day of each child indefinitely. One year in, I’m not so sure. The project has been great: I love having the pictures, and I think I’ve acquired a somewhat better photographic eye over the year, and it’s been frankly fun to have a daily reason to put something up on this blog. At the same time, taking, post-processing, and posting a photo a day is grueling. There were definitely times when it was a chore, rather than a fun project. The days when I said, “Oh, crap, I have to do the pictures,” definitely outnumbered the days when I said, “Ooh, let’s do the pictures!”
I haven’t decided yet whether I’ll continue. I plan to keep taking pictures this week, and if I’m enjoying it, I’ll post them. I think it’s most likely I’ll start posting pictures weekly, throwing up a post each weekend with a sampling of good photos from the week. Thank you so much to all of you who’ve followed along, and I hope you’ll enjoy whatever I manage to pull together in year two.
