Ever see a photographer who starts out with a 365 day project, or even a 52 week project and never finishes? Yeah, me too. Well, I recently joined a group of a few other busy photographers who decided to commit to a 12 month project! If we fail this, we’ll be taking donations for a time management seminar. The best part is that it will be totally candid, lifestyle shots of each of our own families/lives. We don’t even have to dredge up random people or make our kids pose for us. We’re calling the series “The Story of ________” and we’ll each be filling in our own blanks. At the end of this post is a link to another photographer who participated and she’ll be linking to someone else. It’s a whole big circle of stories in pictures. Click through and enjoy!

If you are ever around young kids you know how hard it is to entertain them for long. With my kids being so close in age and young I’m always on the hunt for anything that will keep them busy long enough for me to throw some food on the stove or clean up. Anything that keeps them occupied simulateanously for five whole minutes is considered a winner in my book. Well behold the sand table. In a stroke of sheer genius I moved it to our patio while I was cooking dinner and you know what? They both played with it for 15 WHOLE MINUTES. So what do I do with myself when my kids aren’t both clamoring for my attention and I can get something done? Yep I stop to take pictures of them doing said activity. While dinner may not have gotten done any faster I still want to capture my kids just being kids.

At the end of each of our posts will be a link to the next photographer in the chain of Life Stories Series. There are 27 of us participating!!!!

Please go check out Verity Dokter Photography as my friend Vee is the next photographer in the circle doing this project.