I received an email today from WordPress encouraging bloggers to consider a 365 day blog challenge. The email provided examples of what other 365 day bloggers have done or are going to do and I was intrigued. There are some very creative folks out there. While I believe I could come up with something wonderfully creative, I am afraid I would find myself at the end of the day, out of time and pooped out, unable to fulfill my commitment. So my simplified commitment is this: I am going to try to take a picture and then post it every day beginning today. Why wait until January 1st? I may forget by then! I am going to be upfront and say right here and now that I may fail at this! I may do this imperfectly by skipping some days! But I am going to give this a shot. I think it would be a wonderful record of 2112.

Below is my first picture of the 365 day challenge. You may wonder why I chose to take such a ho-hum photo. What is there in this picture that is particularly interesting or meaningful? What is the significance?

I thought about the photo I wanted to take to begin the challenge. Naturally, my children are near the top of my list of priorities. They come after my relationship with Christ and serving my husband. The work the Lord has given for me to do here on earth primarily involves these guys. For now anyway. I decided to snap this pic of Kait and CJ because this is where we were, right now, in life. Kaity is sick with an upper respiratory something-or-rather. Each of my children recently received a Nintendo DS as a bribe (more on that in a different post). I loathe video games and am wondering how I allowed this to happen. So this picture neatly represents, to me, reality. The in-it-neck-deepness of parenting. The problem I am facing, right here and now, in real life, regulating video game time (a.k.a. the mind numbing, brain washing of my children).

“11yodd and 8yods playing their Nintendo DS’s. Muffin the cat blessing them with her presence.”

“He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.” Malachi 4:6

So what has my children’s hearts?