CUTE SHOTS

M dressed up for Constitution Day at school.

Big helpers...

The doorbell rang one day and this is the salesman I found standing on my porch when I answered the door.....

Maybe a drawstring on the swimsuit would help....

New Stages

Our youngest out of diapers.

Wow we're out of diapers for the first time in nearly 13 years!

No crib, no high chair....no baby.

Wierd.

Our oldest into braces....

and earrings....and teen years....and junior high....

and staying home with kids alone on occasion.....

Wierd.

Recurring theme

I think it's been a few years since we've done a cake with a theme other than Star Wars....

September - M's 8th

July - I's 3rd

Examples of "set-ups" that are being elaborately built daily around here....

Camping in June.

Our campsite had a perfect pile of rocks for all sorts of lightsaber fights...

I haven't posted in half a year! I'm so sorry. I can see I haven't posted since my struggle with anxiety last spring. Here is a poem I wrote coming out of that time....and then I'll try to catch up this blog!

Fragile Calm

The storm has passed now.

The tempest that raged and destroyed

has now moved on,

leaving a surreal, gray haze over its wake of destruction

The threat is now over.

…..or is it?

A fragile calm settles in the aftermath,

hesitant, uneasy….

Every lingering breath of wind,

Every splash of residual raindrop

Taunts….

Haunts….

Calling back the memory - the reality

Fresh...and raw.

Questions and confusion persist

And fear lingers….

Challenging the certainty,

Threatening the hope….

Of this fragile calm.

Christa 4/11