New Year's Resolutions

Many have asked me, "what is your New Year's Resolution?" And I usually balk, saying I don't "need" one, or that they are stupid. If you haven't figured it out yet, I am a brat with an attitude problem.

However this year, I am making a resolution; not the usual one about weight loss or exercise, because, well, please. I don't need to set myself for more disappointment. I prefer to be pleasantly surprised if I lose a pound or two, than to try to do so and fail miserably.

No for me, my resolution has everything to do with photography.

I was flipping through the photos of 2008, as well as looking at the online photo albums of friends and "blog friends," and well, I discovered one thing: we have a wonderful shrine of Evie, but really no evidence of our existence as her parents. Furthermore, there is NO evidence that Bryan and I are in fact, a married couple.

Evie will one day look back through the file cabinets full of photo albums and wonder if her parents were separated in 2008, or if perhaps we left her in the care of the dogs while we went away on holiday.

There is a perfectly good reason for this, I don't like being photographed, Bryan is intimidated by my camera. Plus, I'm anal and a perfectionist and a control freak, so sadly, I always take the pictures.

The result is that we have 12-billion pictures of Evie that all look the same, and very few if any pictures of us as a family and absolutely no pictures of us as a couple.

And thus, my New Year's Resolution is three-fold:

1) teach Bryan how to operate the camera
2) take more pictures of the family
3) take more pictures of us as a couple

So I am asking you, dear internet, friends and family, to hold me accountable. If you start to see the Evie shrine growing again, please point it out.

We can't have another year where Evie thinks she was raised by Portia and Puck.