Today is truly one of my favourite days of the year! It’s the day when I stitch together my one second everyday videos, add some music, and get to watch my year unfold in 365 sweet, fleeting little moments. It always feels so magical, and poignant, and lovely, and bittersweet.
And this year’s video really embodies what I love about this project: it’s everything everywhere all at once. It shows you just how quickly life can change, and just how much life fits into just a handful of days. For example: you see how quickly we go from a gorgeous celebration of love in sunny Jamaica to the sadness of a chilly hospital room to say goodbye to my beloved grandmother. You see (very) hard work days back to back with cute birthday celebrations, and gorgeous cookbook club dinners next to boring days spent at my desk. In a video, it all goes by fast enough to give you whiplash.
But mostly, I just love that this project helps me remember what our everyday life looked and felt like as the seasons changed. Of course it’s fun to remember the glamorous or exciting stuff, but it’s most meaningful (for me!) to see our cozy patio dinners, and ice cream dates, and trips to the dog park, and how the light changed in our living room in the afternoons. As someone with a terrible memory, these glimpses into daily life are what I cherish most.
2026 will be my tenth year (!) of doing this project, if you can believe it. A decade of daily documentation. And even though the videos are sometimes blurry and always very far from perfect, I don’t see myself stopping this project anytime soon.
Happy New Year, everyone! Sending you love & best wishes for an absolutely beautiful 2026.
xoxo,
Steph
PS. This is the app I use to create these videos! If you’re curious, you can watch my previous videos here: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024.