What is it about starting anything new and trying to make it a habit…and then falling off the bandwagon in the first week? I don’t think it matters in the end IF you pick yourself up and keep going. With the photo challenge, my theory is that the self-portrait prompt for day 10 freaked me out. Which is ridiculous, especially since I found myself one week before that nodding in agreement to Tip #34 from Everyday Treats about getting over yourself and not hiding from the camera!

So I am getting over myself and offering up days 9 – 14:

This is me, getting over myself.

Day 12 – Inside Your Closet

I don’t even have that many shoes – they just never get put away it seems.

Day 13 – Blue

 Day 14 – Heart

Courtesy of K, who never met an embellishment she didn’t love

Ooh, today’s challenge was the sun…

I live in New Mexico, so almost every day it’s sunny and mostly cloudless. Ironically, today we got overcast!

Buttons

I think the prompt was button (singular) – but man, we have a lot of buttons in our lives these days don’t we? We live with a 7-year old who has not yet outgrown her pleasure in pushing buttons – most of the time I remember to wait when approaching any elevator!

Other random thoughts of the day:

• week two of post half-marathon recovery period…and getting itchy to run again. Last week, the rest felt good. This week, two weight workouts isn’t enough.
• so close to the end of 1Q84. I don’t even know if I like it. But I want to find out what happens.
• how do you train a dog to start sleeping in your kid’s room and not yours? The princess has suddenly decided that the dogs are cool and Lucy is the only one willing to get on furniture. Sam, the poodle, is much more logical and has figured out that it’s easier to just stay off all furniture. Lucy just won’t stay all night – out of habit she’ll still come to our room to sleep on the dog bed on the floor. We’re working on it.

Sam & Lucy

Lucy – the comfort dog

Dinner
Cheating here because it looked way too pretty before it got cooked. The 7 year old walked in and immediately said “hey, it’s a fractal!” I love Montessori.