January 20, 2022 - Thursday


Pizza and a movie night!!! Haha kind of hard to celebrate and eat junk food when the scale showed a gain this morning. 🙄 But tradition is tradition, after all. 

I looked back through a year of photos I posted on Instagram and it struck me how little I do with photography now, compared to last year. I spent considerable time planning photo shoots and using Ps before. Now, it's like, let's just take a picture of what's happening and act like it's artsy. IDK. Feeling bummed about my personal photography projects not being very inspired lately. 

Speaking of uninspired photography, here are today's selections! Just some hot mess, blurry, destructive play time this evening. This is what real, every day life is like over here. Not posed portraits or magical photo shoots, but kids rolling around on the ground, whining, playing, screaming, and laughing with each other. It's not usually picture perfect, but it's still perfect for me (sometimes). Yes, Jonas is squashing Clemi to death above (alas, she lives!). And below, she is taunting him with the annoyingness of her watch. 😁 I liked this little moment of connection between Ben and Ollie that I caught too. 





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