I don’t know the word for a contest with no prize, but I need your help.  Now’s the time if you’re a regular blog reader (even if you’re just a stalker – aka the readers who don’t comment) to help me.  My friend Stacy took the following photos for me today for a support letter that I need to write to raise money for my trip to Ethiopia (in March!!!!).  I can’t decide which one to use.  You vote & I PROMISE I’ll use the one with the most votes.  Simple as that.  Leave a comment & all you need to do is say #1 or #2.  And go give Stacy some love & tell her thank you for me for doing this on such short notice (and for letting my kids play Wii while she did it).

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Thanks friends!  And let’s say voting ends…um…Sunday.

AHHHH!  I’ve got less than an hour to blog!  Today has been fun, but busy.  I got a head shot from my friend Stacy (which required extensive grooming on my part), took the kids to lunch as a treat, prepared our lovely babysitter, Lauren, drove to Alexandria, and attended the DC Spread the Love Tour with Justin & Mary Marantz, got locked in the garage, had to walk umpteen blocks to get cash to get my car out, & finally made it home!  Let’s say my day was filled with a good deal of prayer!

Anyway, about the photo above:  This is our youngest daughter, Brooke.  She’s 2 and a half & has been in her own “big girl” bed for about a year now.  While we don’t tell her she can’t come out of her room in the morning, she has usually sat in her room calling for us when she’s ready to get up.  Well, today she opened her own door & surprised me in my room while I was getting ready.  She came in with her eyes all glazed over from sleep, her mouth & nose all crusty, and carrying every toy she could fit in her tiny hands.  Then (after a quick diaper change), she spread out on the floor and watched cartoons on the TV while she woke up.  This is her deep in thought while watching Peppa Pig.  What could she be thinking?

A side note on this 365 thing, or more some personal ponderings that I could get your imput on:

1) what if there is more than one thing I do in a day that I want to share a photo about?  What do I do?

2) what if I shoot an image really late & want to share it, but I know it’ll be too late – is it okay to share the next day, or is that cheating because it wasn’t taken that day?

I guess I’m learning as I go along.  Thanks for stopping by!