a week-in-the-life revamp

I started documenting A Week in the Life for our family this weekend. Basically it means I am bringing the big camera with us everywhere we go. I'm trying to capture the actual life events in hopes to remember our normal every day.

Rory took this picture above and told me one way to capture our normal every day would be to get a shot of me coming out of every bathroom I frequent throughout the day. Because at 34 weeks, this is a very huge part of my normal every day. I heard the camera and saw him take this shot and laughed so hard.

I took pictures on Saturday and Sunday and I'm already needing to revamp my goals for this project because here's the thing. My baby is really, really low. And life is quite uncomfortable lately. And I've been put on sort of a modified bed rest, two hours up followed by one hour laying on my left hand side. The goal is to keep this baby growing inside of me as long as possible. The goal is to make it to 40 weeks.

I decided to do A Week in the Life before I started feeling all of these very-pregnant symptoms. I worked hard yesterday going to church and the fair (all for two hours at a time, rest time in between) and today I am totally wiped out. And I haven't taken a single picture, mostly because there isn't much to document from my bed. I've seen lots of awesome pictures throughout the day, but just don't have the additional energy to run ahead of the kids to get the shot or even get up from my chair to grab the camera.

So this might be more of a wordy week-in-the-life. I have spent a lot of my time listening to my kids' conversations, without them knowing. And that feels like it's own special treasure of memories to document. This week might be a bit more wordy than full of pictures, and a bit more sleepy than active. But that's okay. That's our actual, honest-to-goodness week-in-the-life here in the middle of August 2015.