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A Second A Day - January 2017

So we are officially one month into the new year. We have been working hard on our Second A Day project. Initially Steven seemed to think it was a bit silly. That was before we set it to music and it was longer than 10 seconds. Now, every day we put it all together and watch it a few times and just smile. We are loving doing this project. Seeing a full month come together has been awesome. To see an entire year come together is going to be so cool.

I think the hardest part of this challenge other than actually remembering to take a video every day, is thinking in a second at a time. I tend to take a lot of videos anyway but they are almost always of the kids. Our year long video is bound to be mostly kid related, but that doesn't mean it has to be everything. There are other things going on around here too that we might want to document. So, although I usually have at least one video a day that I could find a second worth of a clip to use for the video, sometimes we want something a bit different. And thinking in that second format is actually pretty difficult. If we are doing something that might work as a second or two long clip, I take a video and then at the end of the day, I choose the video that seems to work best as a second long clip and edit it down. Also, most of my videos border on 2 seconds so we are looking at just trying to keep the video for the entire year under 15-20 minutes at this point. Haha! It's mostly for us so we are going to be fine watching 15 minutes worth of our family over the course of a year. As far as the videos themselves, some videos do NOT work at all. Some are perfect. Some are okay and we just go with it because it's the best option we have. Either way, we are making it work and are really enjoying seeing it turn into a real video. Also, I'm coming to the realization that there are going to be some days that I cannot decide between 2 different videos. I'm debating the possibility of including both on just a few days but that takes away from the Second A Day thing... we will see how it turns out. As of right now, we have 1-2 seconds per day and 1 video each day. And we love it. Currently it ends sort of abruptly but I'm not going to worry about that until the end of the year when it needs an actual end. Once we are through our first song, we will change to include new songs along the way. I haven't chosen those yet. Also if/when I share it for each month through the year, I will likely not include the prior months so it will not be formally put together until the end of the year.

So with all of that being said...

Here is our January Second A Day video for anyone that might want to see some quick clips of what our family has been up to this month.

Enjoy!


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