Kids were here is a project created by an awesome friend of mine, Ketti Phillips of Ketti Photography. It’s a 30 day project detailing the lives of kids without showing “kids”. 🙂 It has been really fun and rewarding documenting the day to day of all my children. Mess is art. Enjoy!
Day 1
Day 2
Baby Z is 19.5 months! Time flies when you’re having fun! She is such a blessing and truly entertaining, inspiring. She is starting to sing too, such a sweet sweet sound. Enjoy!
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.” — E.E. Cummings
Don’t change who you are, don’t ever stop fighting for what you love and believe in.
Conquer fears, take chances.
Be different, be you.
Take flight…
M celebrated her 9th birthday this Monday. It was cloudy and gloomy day. Ideal weather for a bittersweet birthday. Her BF of two years was moving away. It was so heartbreaking to see my little one so sad. I try to remind her that we are a part of a special community but with that comes saying goodbye to the ones you come to care for most. She said S leaving was the worst birthday present ever. It was so sad seeing her drive away as she waved goodbye through an open window. After she was gone, M wrote her name in the sand. At least now we have the technology to email, Skype and FB. We know it’s not goodbye but “until we meet again.”
To cheer her up I took her to her favorite hill. I let her roll down it after taking some birthday shots. We had a special dinner of spaghetti tacos. We only made cupcakes because we had a birthday bash for her on Saturday and had a custom cake made. It was a Monster High theme. Lots of fun fun fun. (We just found a paper plate under the sofa with a dried up bun and patty on it, lol.)
She is feeling better now but will occasionally cry, I just try to reassure her that it will get better with time. We are looking forward to her first Skype chat with S.
Happy Birthday M, we love you. Everything will be okay baby, I promise.
These three things go hand in hand with J2 this summer. Too bad we think dandelions are evil. On the bright side, they make for great photo opportunities. Fluffy doggie got a bath too, he looks so clean and new! Really enjoying all the daylight. We “are” in the land of the rising sun. Enjoy.
My oldest turned 18 this past May. We are so proud of her. It’s hard to believe that she is growing up. I often wondered would she would be like as an adult and I am glad to say that thus far, I am not disappointed one bit. I must admit, being 18 is a very difficult age… Its the in between, the limbo of impending adulthood. Be responsible, think about the future, look to the future. During your summer interview, say this but don’t say that. Do this but don’t do that. Wear this but not that. What’s your major? What are you going to do in your life? What do you want to be? I’m sure there is a lot of pressure. I was once 18 too. Hang in there Baby, it will all come to you. In the meantime, enjoy life and always look forward, learn from the past and be you!
Have you ever been in a place where you felt there was no way out? Stuck in a rut? Inspiration-less? I have, and its been with my photography. I am taking a workshop to help with finding my way out of this. While the journey has been difficult, it has opened my eyes to so many new things. I am who I am. Not everyone will like me, not everyone will understand me. I am working on being okay with that. I just need to let people see the uniqueness in me and how I see the world… I am creative in my own way. I am learning to Fly. 🙂
Well, after a few weeks in Texas we are finally back home. What a relief. I thought this day would never come and I was ready to stay another four weeks. Being away from home and especially the CDR made me realize how special and precious my life is. Not literally “my life” but the life I have with my family as a wife, mother and friend. It feels great to be home. We missed the cherry blossoms this year as well as celebrating my birthday with the CDR. He made an effort to make it so amazing including a gorgeous cherry blossom two tiered cake, new point and shoot and an amazing bouquet of flowers so rich in color they made me giggle with happiness.
We are home.
I am back and excited to be participating in the 52 week project again. It has been a crazy few weeks. I am glad to have “some” normalcy in my life right now. I’ve been out for three weeks, hard to believe!
17 amazing photographers, 17 interpretations. To find out more about the project…visit Week 1. We are now at week 13, this week’s theme is black and white. Love it, as I love and prefer black & white to color images.
I have been feeling somewhat melancholy these past few weeks. I guess it’s easy to figure out why. When I see this image I see a ball of chaos but emerging from it are seeds of life…New beginnings. I know I wont feel like this for long. I’m already catching my groove, lol. I’m here posting, right?
Black and White
Now head on over to the talented Kate of The Rancher’s Wife Photography | Southest Wyoming newborn, child, senior and family photographer, to view her interpretation of this week’s theme. I’m sure she’ll blow you away! See you next week!
Well its been a while since my last post. So many things have happened. I am now finally “finding” the time to update my blog. We are out of Japan temporarily. The CDR and I thought it was in the best interest of our children to leave Japan under the voluntary departure. We are in the states and currently in a rental home. The house is beautiful and spacious, very different from our little home in Japan. I keep hearing echos. There are large windows and a sun room, gorgeous gorgeous light! It’s unfortunate that we are here under these circumstances.
We are keeping busy with school, visiting with family and of course…sight seeing. After all is said and done, it’s hard to enjoy ourselves when we’d rather be home. We will return when the state dept issues an all clear.
Until then we’ll be missing the CDR and home. We’ll make the best of this but we want to be home.
We are still praying for those lost and in need in Japan. We pray for the brave workers and the stabilization of the Fukushima plant.