Just a reminder that I’m teaching a photography class at Blissful Living Studio this Thursday, October 2nd. The web site says it’s for the “Intermediate Photographer” but don’t let that scare you because we’ll be going over all the basics…lighting, composition and how to shift out of the “auto” mode for better results with your…
Claire’s smart. This fact wasn’t overly apparent this summer. Any casual observer would have to admit that there was a pretty big difference between dear Claire, who was content to paint with watercolors and fill buckets with sand at Bear Lake, and my sister’s daughter (who’s six months younger), who could write all her letters…
In my continual saga: my quest to “Be Still,” (my motto for the year), every time I go for a visit to “Wit’s End” I come to the same realization: I need help. And I guess maybe the “stillness” I’m craving would come more regularly if I didn’t keep forgetting to really internalize that admonition…
We are here and man oh man I don’t know quite how to capture this whole experience. I just don’t really have the words to describe it. We only have a minute before we’re heading out again but I’m just gonna post some stuff I started to write the other day… (8-22-08) We’re off to…
(Yes, it’s great up here, but here’s to “keeping it real”) 1) A four-year-old looks way skinnier after two days of throwing up. 2) When you’re staying at a house full of a bunch of kids, things like stomach bugs get passed around pretty quickly. 3) You can make your jaw feel really weird for…
I get amused by Father & Sons. The reason is because of what I always had pictured in my mind of what those words would entail: the dads taking off with the rowdy boys to camp out and the mothers, left with only their one or two well-mannered, sweet, clean and primped daughters taking off…
Today while walking the aisles of Walmart (one of my least favorite stores, but that’s a post for another day), Lucy pointed at me and said, “Mama.” And for the first time I think she really meant, “you are my mama” instead of just some babbling mambo jumbo. And I almost started crying right there…
Lucy LOVES the trampoline. I mean, what’s a stronger word?…she ADORES it, she can’t get enough of it. If I’d let her sleep out there she’d be as pleased as punch. The older kids love to bounce her with all their friends. It’s the new after-school past time around here. I love love love watching…