everyday dreamer.: a day in the life

{get ready for an image overload. I ended the day with nearly 800 images. whoa.
some of them will be featured in another post soon. for now, however, I give you a typical Saturday at our house.}

as I embarked on this month's "a day in the life" project, my only thought upon beginning was to make it different than the last (you can find that post here).
I was determined to be more creative, more candid, more artsy in the month of may.
I set the imaginary bar high.

during the first half of the day, my mind hummed with creative captions, witty explanations and thoughtful commentary to go along with the images I was capturing.
I was going to explain that my first thought upon waking was of coffee (instead of my usual cup of english breakfast).
I grappled with creative ways to tell the story of the night before, my daughters' decision to play silently in their room until I found them at 10:30, clad in only their - ahem - undergarments. and due to their lack of rest, they were beyond cranky and lethargic for most of the morning (until mandatory naptime was enforced).
I thought of how I would caption certain images: taken with a baby on my back, as the wee man refused to nap for any significant length of time.

all these thoughts swirled through my brain. until lunchtime, that is.
after lunch, all those thoughts were erased.
replaced.
cancelled out by a song.
a simple song.
but a song that nonetheless brought my heart to its knees.
this melody restarted my creative vision for the day.
I was scrubbing an overflowing sink of dishes with tears skipping down my cheeks, only to have them mingle with the sudsy dishwater.
"knees to the earth" my heart sang along, as my throat was too constricted to form the words.

the song immediately following on my pandora station continued along the same bent, serving to inspire my mood even more.
no longer a chore, an assignment to see how much I could improve upon the previous month's project but a renewed vision.
no longer just one more thing in my already busy day.
in a way, those words were rose coloured glasses to my day.
tainting the minutes with their message of hope.

I have interspersed the lyrics of those two songs in between the selected images from that day to give you a picture of how my eyes saw my world through my viewfinder.

all images taken 17 may 2014, in the order in which they appear.

Wonderful Savior, my heart belongs to Thee
I will remember always the blood You shed for me
Wonderful Savior, my heart will know Your worth
So let me embrace You always as I walk this earth

Read more at http://www.songlyrics.com/christy-nockels/knees-to-the-earth-lyrics/#jFL8FhhO9hkPFbWz.99

Wonderful Savior, my heart belongs to Thee
I will remember always the blood You shed for me