I have been experimenting with different ways to use digital pictures. I used Animoto for this slideshow and I am stunned how quick and easy it was. In only a few minutes, I created the Animoto account, uploaded my pictures, chose music, and produced the video. The downside is that the free account limits you to 30 second videos.
Make your own slide show at Animoto.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Friday, May 11, 2012
12 Months
In about 3 weeks, my early bird, who weighed 1 pound 15 ounces at birth, will be 1 year old. I am working on the slideshow below to show how much he has changed; the 11 and 12 month photos have not been taken yet. I also want to create a "Year in Review" slideshow with more pictures. I have so many pictures of the neonatal intensive care unit, the special care nursery, the Ronald McDonald house, and coming home.
A year has passed and yet I feel like I am only starting to regain my energy. I don't mean physical energy, as in, I felt up to cleaning the house or exercising (although that has only recently improved as well). I mean vital energy, like the type of energy that drives you to pursue your passions or do something for yourself or even to be in tune to what is going on around you, so you can be an advocate for yourself or someone else.
I remember May 2011 like it was yesterday. I remember Memorial Day weekend, and I had just made the season's first batch of rhubarb jam. We had a particular vision of what the summer would be like...working in our garden, preparing our baby's nursery, attending the birthing classes.
But a few nights later, while sitting on a birthing ball in our first Labor & Delivery class, I felt a warm gush and....suddenly I was on a helicopter to a hospital with a neonatal intensive care unit. Everything gets a bit fragmented after that, but I hope to spend some time these next few weeks looking back at my journal and remembering the events surrounding the arrival of our little early bird.
A year has passed and yet I feel like I am only starting to regain my energy. I don't mean physical energy, as in, I felt up to cleaning the house or exercising (although that has only recently improved as well). I mean vital energy, like the type of energy that drives you to pursue your passions or do something for yourself or even to be in tune to what is going on around you, so you can be an advocate for yourself or someone else.
I remember May 2011 like it was yesterday. I remember Memorial Day weekend, and I had just made the season's first batch of rhubarb jam. We had a particular vision of what the summer would be like...working in our garden, preparing our baby's nursery, attending the birthing classes.
But a few nights later, while sitting on a birthing ball in our first Labor & Delivery class, I felt a warm gush and....suddenly I was on a helicopter to a hospital with a neonatal intensive care unit. Everything gets a bit fragmented after that, but I hope to spend some time these next few weeks looking back at my journal and remembering the events surrounding the arrival of our little early bird.
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