Strangely, but more often than not, I am one of the first people someone contacts during a pregnancy. It happens during death as well. Far too often than I would like. But, I have to say… I like the first scenario the best. I have been waiting to meet this little girl for months and...
This is how I started my day yesterday. On a boat. With a cup of coffee. Chilly. But enjoying the sun sparkles on the water as the boys fished. Well, one boy fished, the other snuggled me most of the time. I ended the day in the front seat of a pick-up, facing backward,...
When you’re the littlest, it really isn’t hard to elicit smiles from all the bigger ones around you. Especially when you’re him! CONSTANT SMILES. And he has all the big people that surround him wrapped around his fingers. And it shouldn’t be any other way! He’s one that I chase and laugh and tickle and...
Two years ago her mom came to me and said “We want to shoot in the spring in the pink apple blossoms!!!” That seemed like a long time ago to be talking about her senior photos. Yet here we are two years later. Watching the weather like hawks. Praying that it doesn’t rain and the...
I can smell the apple trees out my window. But I can smell them better if I walk up to the tree, step in between the branches and let them hug me. Feel the soft petals on my cheek. Those are the good breaths.