I do have to apologize in advance to my faithful followers who have been used to seeing a daily photo post from my 365 Project. Although I am managing to take a daily shot for this project, I have found myself editing the photos in batches of 2-4 lately, given how busy things have been lately. And busy is a good thing!

Although my 365 Project is certainly a lot easier to handle with a weekly theme, I must admit that coming up with an interesting enough theme is starting to become challenging. Ah, but I do welcome the challenge! The theme for Week 13 is a little different from the others that I've done so far, since it does not focus on people. Instead, I've decided to focus on the inanimate objects in my life. The objects in this week's photos have been included due to some sort of significance in my day-to-day life. After all, the purpose of this 365 Project is to capture aspects of everyday life! So here goes!

Sunday's photo is of ballet shoes. My daughter's ballet shoes, to be precise. This is her second pair of ballet shoes. She went ahead and grew on us this year, so next thing we knew, her old shoes were too small, and we had to get her some new ones. She started taking ballet class on Saturday mornings, starting in September of 2012. Since her class is such an integral part of our weekend routine, it's only fitting that I should include them.

Monday was a busy day, as I'd had my Ümlarific Mother's Day event in the morning/early afternoon, and then was busy editing pictures in the afternoon. This pic was the result of (yet another) one of those moments where, at the end of the day, I realized that I had no photo of the day, and had to scramble. Fortunately for me, this was lying around in my living room/foyer area. It's a sword that my hubby made for my daughter out of a wrapping paper roll and two toilet paper rolls. He'd originally just used duct tape to attach the two toilet paper rolls to the wrapping paper roll, but after the longer roll started to unravel, the channeled his inner engineer and decided to wrap the whole thing in duct tape. Makes this engineer feel proud!

Tuesday's photo made me laugh. We were talking about The Lion King at the dinner table, and I remembered that I had a stuffed Pumba that ended up in my daughter's room (feels like all of my stuffed animals migrated there). So I went up to grab it. My daughter was also playing with a little wind-up penguin at the table (yeah, we kind of goof off at dinner), and my hubby had the bright idea of putting the penguin in Pumba's mouth. Behold the end result. Very photo-worthy, isn't it?

Wednesday's photo is of an hourglass. BTW, extra points if you get the Star Trek: The Next Generation reference to the title of the photo. I never claimed *not* to be a geek. So, anyway, the hourglass. It used to belong to my mom. I remember it well when I was growing up in Brazil. Somewhere along the way, it got left at my grandmother's house when we moved away from Rio, and then a couple of years back, when we'd returned for a visit, there it was, in my grandmother's apartment (she passed away in 2008, but we still keep the apartment). So I brought it back with me, as a reminder of my childhood.

Thursday's pic is of a glass of water. You might be wondering why this glass of water is so special. Well, I always keep a glass of water on my nightstand every night. And every night, just as my husband gets into bed, I ask him to get me a glass of water. He's nice enough to do it, but I know that it annoys the crap out of him. This picture is a tribute to my hubby, for putting up with me.

Friday's photo made my hubby laugh when I showed it to him. I mean, there's this creepy Emperor Palpatine Pez dispenser next to a Kermit Pez Dispenser, "overlooking" a Hello Kitty bowl of Oreos. What's there not to love? And now for the back-story. First off, I've mentioned a few times that my daughter attends a Montessori school. One of the big things around Montessori is that kids are empowered, and are therefore encouraged to do things for themselves. So this past week, my daughter started preparing after-school snacks for us. She gets out the bowls, the cookies, and the Pez, and brings them down to the living room, where we enjoy our snacks to a game of Go Fish or Crazy 8s. She even gets us drinks. We've placed the juice cartons low enough on the fridge so that she can grab them and pour them herself. It's really quite endearing. Plus I get Oreos out of it. Win-win.

Saturday's photo was *totally* expected, n'est-ce pas? I actually have more than the ones shown here (oh, crap...I'm starting to sound like a camera snob), but these are my go-to-lenses. It seems only fitting that I'd have a photo of my lenses, with being a photographer and all.

In case you're wondering, Week 14's theme is Liquids. I want to get out and do some more outdoor-themed shots at some point, but right now, indoor shots are proving to be more convenient, given how I don't get my photo-of-the-day shot done until the end of the day.

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