I don&#8217;t share a whole lot of personal stuff on this website. It always feels a little funny to post any photos of my kids, because I&#8217;ve kept my personal life &#038; business life so completely separate for so long. But in the end, they do overlap. 
Truthfully, I&#8217;ve always struggled to find a balance between running a business and maintaining a personal life. And to be honest, the business side of life has probably been more of a priority than the personal side the majority of the time, just because that&#8217;s how life tends to sway sometimes. It&#8217;s not intentional, it&#8217;s just a matter of trying to figure it all out. 
This year, I made it a priority to document my OWN life, my OWN kids. Every day I take a photo (ok, some days hundreds of photos) with the intention of capturing a year of our lives. I didn&#8217;t want another year to pass where I spent a billion hours working on photos of other people while my own photos sat unorganized, unedited, and even un-viewed on hard drives. Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I absolutely LOVE working on other peoples&#8217; photos, and it brings me great joy and there are soooo many things I love about it &#8211; but my own photos were barely even on my radar, and at the end of the day, they are at least equally important. 
I started the project on my girls&#8217; 2nd birthday in August. I now have 4 full months completed and haven&#8217;t missed a day. It hasn&#8217;t been easy but it&#8217;s been so fulfilling already. They grow up so fast, and the time passes in the blink of an eye. It&#8217;s a blessing to be able to capture them like this. 
Here are a few of my favorite photos from Month 1:
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365 Project – Month 1