JK (thats just kidding) I thought that I could download two photos. I am sure that I can but I just couldn't this time. Right now I am sitting alone in a quiet house One child is working, one is at the gym, one is at dance and one is at a friends home. All of this is a good thing and yet I feel strangely in a weird space of alone and not alone. Clearly I am just a jibber jabbering and I should just post the photo.

Today

Today, that is how the beginning of each day feels right now...as a mom and a ... well ... just that I wake up with a very long list of things to accomplish and an even longer list of things I wish to do for my children, all of them. Then the day happens to day. Do any of you ever have a to day? Mine began with a 4 am wake up call with my mind racing. Of course me being me my day included editing some photos so I thought I would put a few here. On Saturday I took my boy up the canyon and caught him being a well a boy.

Sunday, Sunday, O,O, Sunday, Sunday

Today that age old song was running through my head. Then it wouldn't leave my head. over and over and oh wait for it over again! So in between my families usual Sunday activities which included some church attendance, some cooking, a lot of dishes, a little laundry. However, the activity that took first place on my list today was helping my son with his homework. Man was he a determined cus! So after 8 plus hours of his mind working and my mind stretching to the point of almost breaking. We took a break to make a cytoplasm mold? Yippie, I being the proud supportive parent that I am made 7 colors of frosting, and watched him drip the colors into the white frosting. He had to be so exact and make the the nucleus be exactly like the photo. And all though I did get really tiered by the end as I am sure you parents do to, I was reminded how quickly it passes that they don't need our help at all hopefully this photo I took up the canyon yesterday will bring some peace, just a breath of air.

It is a Friday day, huray!

Well, well, well so the saying goes. . . Thank goodness it is Friday. (That is the Utah way to say it:)) I can only say that when the day starts off at 4 a.m. with a sick child you know you are in for a ride, Friday or not. I don't know how many of you out there in this great universe of the internet well apparently I cannot spell that word properly so forgive me:(. So I digress, any of you out there reading this that are a parent and know that feeling that you get in the pit of your stomach when your child says, my stomach hurts, ugh, suddenly my stomach hurts. I try not to overreact but when I was making dinner and I turned around to give him his plate and he was fast asleep at 7pm well freak I freaked out and knew there was a long night and day a head of me. SOOOOOO yes I am very glad it is the weekend and I do not have to wake to the alarm clock and the rush of rushing out the door. Oh wait, I do, I have the great pleasure of running my daughter to dance EVERY, now wait let me repeat myself EVERY unless any of you missed this, EVERY Saturday at * oh wait that is 8 am. Now unless I don't give my newly soon to be x-husband credit he has done it all of her life until he left. But I have done it all of the afternoons and nights. Oh wait I still digressed:(. :). OK, she is 15 and dance is her life, her world, her joy, her passion, so she sets her own alarm, makes her own breakfast, then comes and wakes me up and says "pretty please mama may I have a ride?" Now what do I say at 7:20 am but, "sure". Now how many of you have ever felt your body being sucked into the mattress like not just figurativley ok I cannot spell that either but I hope you get the idea, but literally sucked into the mattress from whence you have slumbered all night and you are warm and the window is blowing just a slightly cool breeze across your face? Well I have and yet, we do it, we get up, dragging ourselves up because we love our kids and frankly because we chose to have them:). So today I decided to post some of the photos that I have taken of her, some last week and some last year because I must face reality, she does get the majority of my camera time in my family. She dances? Enjoy. J

A Great Day!

Today is a sunny, crisp fall autumn day. I love the outdoors (when it is under these conditions:)). I took my first walk around the block since my lengthy hospital stay in December and a ride for photos.

I love to love what I do! I was able to shoot a model photo shoot and all though I would not dare say that I was chasing "Mother Nature" but she WAS chasing me!!!!! I am not sure if that helped our hurt the final outcome? Maybe you will have to be the judge of that.
The rest of my day was spent finishing up my current quilt for my niece. I actually finished (just a few months late:)), and I was able to machine quilt it not just tie it so I feel really good about it. Now on to Niece number two. I will have to post a photo of the finished project.
At the close of today I know that all of us have so much going on in our lives, but how grateful I am that I have a home to sleep in and that tomorrow there will be just a titch of fall air in the morning. Now thats a good day!

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