I imagined, when I first began thinking about what to photograph that would represent “quiet” in our life, I would post a photo like the one below. The solitude of nature, the early morning quiet, the beauty of…
Sometimes when I’m tired and the day seems bleak and purposeless, I know it’s time to go outside. With kids in tow, we head for the park or the beach or wherever I can get to that isn’t…
Last year on January 24th I went to surgery to remove a bit of breast cancer and with it both my breasts. I got reconstructed breasts over the course of 2011 and now, one year later, I am…
… for mama to get outta bed and hang out and play and make breakfast and do stuff, cause, in his words, “Mama, I just don’t know what to do with myself!”…
I am grateful to have children that see life, almost every day, as a fun place to play in and be excited about. Things can look so miserable and scary to me, and yet here are these human…
Cedar is almost always ready to play with Ashton should she be open to it, and though our girl is highly unpredictable and we never quite know what to expect from her, we love the mornings when she wakes up…
A big reason why I keep this blog (and why I post so many photos) is so that we have a family journal to look back through, talk and laugh about, get ideas from, and reflect on, as…
Thought I’d share again the family photos we took for one of our advent activities. It was my first time using the self-timer on the camera, and our first time getting family photos by ourselves, and we are…
The kids each picked out fabric for some new mama-made cotton pants (I did hem up Cedar’s a bit– he’s just growing so quickly that I figured I’d make them longer). This kind of pant is so simple…
