Wishing

My lovely sister in law, Robynn gave me this necklace as a little reminder of our babe that left us before we even met. I love it just because it's for me. A little reminder of the life that was once there. In some way it is easy to forget and just move on, but I want to remember. I want people to ask me how I'm feeling about it and this necklace helps people to do that. Time has a way of lessening the hurts, which is good and necessary. But I still have moments where I remember what was supposed to be and how we would have been planning our trip home for the summer, but aren't.

Thank you Robynn for helping me to remember.

xo

Good morning

How I love my morning coffee. More of my favorite things to come.

My lovely

Here he is in all his loveliness. This was taken right after nursery school, before we had lunch - most likely hummus and pretzels with apples. One of his go to lunches. When we were driving home from school, I turned around and looked at his face and asked him if I could take his picture when we got home because he just looked so very beautiful. And here it is. I knew that the moment was precious and fleeting, that one day I will look back on these times and long for them. PIcking him up from nursery school, talking about what he did, making him some lunch, putting him for a nap, tidying up - all the normal things of our day which right now seem so dull and monotonous will one day be far away and I know I will miss all of it.

I love having this blog to document some of these moments. I already love looking back even a year ago and seeing what he was doing, a glimpse into our life. Well, the moment is calling, spiderman is needing some attention.

xo

Thought I would share this one from this afternoon. I have lots more to go through that we took using the self timer.

Will share them soon.

Have a great weekend!

xo

I Heart Faces

I am posting this photo again for the "I Heart Faces" contest. This is possibly my favorite image this year of my boy. Love the light and the joy - but you already know that!

New Year

I'm not a big fan of making grand promises and goals, and then not keeping them. That's why in the past I haven't made New Years resolutions, they just make me discouraged. All through the year I want to eat healthier, work out more, exercise grace and forgiveness better, read more, post more photos, ask more questions etc etc. Not just on January 1st or even the month of January.

I'm glad that these things are not what saves me. I would fail.

I'd love to be able to do a photo a day challenge. Maybe I will attempt that, but I can't promise. I'm already 5 days late :) I'd also like to cook more and photograph my meals. I really do love cooking, I whipped up a vegetarian lasagna this morning while Liam was at nursery school. It was a ton of work, but I enjoyed it.

Here are some more photos from our holiday. It really was lovely and I always take it for granted when I am there, and then come home and wish I had truly enjoyed it this year.

In the words of my boy: "Prepare Yourself", there are quite a lot of photos to be shared.

To begin, a Christmas photo which I should have shared a month ago. Followed by cookie baking before our travels.

Liam's favorite part of Christmas with my family was Kim's dog. He told me this yesterday.

Florida begins

Does anyone else take pictures of their child crying?

I look forward to what this year will bring. It's always somewhat exciting to imagine what the year will hold. Surely there will be some difficult stuff but also lots of good.

Little Blu

We're back from our holidays.

This one caught my eye, little Bea Blu - Liam's cousin.

I love taking photos of girls :)

I will be back with more soon :)