12 Days of Motherhood

I've been playing around with my camera a lot lately and practicing different settings in manual mode. I decided I needed a project to work on so that I would take more pictures to practice. I decided to do a "12 days of Motherhood" challenge. I just made it up, although I'm sure subconsciously it was somewhere on Pinterest that I got the idea. Ha!

I have been thinking about motherhood a lot and wanting to document my daily life at this stage in my motherhood.  I don't have very many pictures of me and especially not of daily tasks.  I decided that I would take a picture a day for 12 days before Mother's Day.  I sort of did that, with a few extras in there to count for the days I missed. :) 

I wanted to take pictures of my daily mothering duties with my children...candid pictures, not posed and with whatever we were wearing or whatever stains were showing. The goal was a picture in the moment. I set up a tripod and placed the camera at different times to capture these little moments. 

Here is the result. I love the pictures I've got. I didn't get in a lot of them..the girls started to notice the tripod and the moment was ruined at times. So I stayed out instead.  And that's ok! Because it was just a photography challenge for myself anyway. :) 

Here are my pictures, and I'll include a caption beneath each one: 

A Mother's Embrace 

(sidenote...this picture was an "accident" as I was setting up the tripod. But I liked the look of it, and it became the picture of the day!)

Splish Splash in the Bath

 

 Mothers Blow Lots of Bubbles

You Can't Have Too Many Puzzles

Chalk Pictures Everywhere

 Chalk Closeup

Who Needs Toys When You Have a Wallet to Play With? 

 Mother-Daughter Shadow

Bubble Magic

Mommy's Little Big Helper 

When Mama's Sick, Everyone Watches TV

 

 Flour Fun!

 Oh Boy...

 Flour, Flour Everywhere

Feeding Three, Three Meals a Day 

Filling The Tub is the Most Fun

Tender Hugs All Around

12 Days of Motherhood were 12 days of fun, laughter, cleaning, tears and nurturing. And I'm happy these few pictures documented those times