06.07.13

Taking those extra steps down for iced tea ice

Beach side onion rings

First peas on our plants

Time pieces in the mail

Found air conditioning

One-on-one days

Your Children

Your children are not your children,

they are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.

They come through you but are not from you,

and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,

for they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

Kahlil Gibran

02.07.13

Two perfectly sweet babies on weekend adventures

First reaches, stretches, and wiggles across the floor

Sunshine, blue skies, warm nights

Evening bike ride to the squirts

Pretty, pretty mugs

26.06.13

Productive mornings

Your heavy sleepy head on my shoulder

Admiring you curled in my arms through your dresser mirror

Lounging with a laughing little girl on my lap in the quiet afternoon

Your first mamas - so much concentration and effort

22.06.13

Catching up on years of missed movies.

An emerging awareness of how to turn things around.

This land of beautiful beaches

Contended beach drives

Happy beach babies

21.06.13

Sleeping baby boy in arms.

Little girl blossoming into sweetness.

Surprise appearances by a fountain-bound family.

Watching her hold her own, know herself, follow her heart.

His big, easy, heart that radiates and seeks and then takes us all in.

20.06.13

Fountain running laughter

Evening bike rides with Frankie

Confidence in our scaled-down garden

Little boy late day bed laughter

Little boy silly camera antics

New little boy chatter