Barry’s mom and dad got Maggie a Minnie Mouse watch for Christmas and on the night before we left for Disneyland, when these were taken, she was really into testing it out and checking to make sure it was ticking. Bed time is tricky still around here, we’re done with the day and the girls usually want to keep playing or enjoying being up. On this particular day we’d tried to pack and prepare for an early departure the next day….5 more minutes before bedtime rarely means just a simple 5…..but we can all hope.
5 Minutes Before School
I often write blog posts in my head these days and they never come to fruition because of one thing or another. I’ve recently been inspired by a photographer friend of mine that has been doing ‘5 Minutes’ blog posts where she focuses on just a few minutes at a time with her children. I can totally get behind that because lately I’ve been fighting the fight of having what feels like NO time.
So, today I’m posting some pictures from last week that I took of the girls right before we left to drop Maggie off at school. The three mornings that we’re trying to get out the door can have a calm tone, but some days we’re rushing and there isn’t a peace that I’d like to have. It’s a work in progress.
On the morning that we took these pictures we had a few extra minutes and the light in our backyard was taunting me. The girls, both wearing dresses that my mom made, were happy enough to spend a few minutes outside before getting into the car.
When Barry was really into kiteboarding he’d talk often (too often, in my opinion) about the wind. What the wind was doing, what the wind might do and if he should get his gear and go chase the wind. I’ve become that way now in talking about light….because that morning light is amazing and beautiful and I could talk about it more than anybody probably wants to hear about it.
I snapped these pictures in a quick 5 minutes and then we shimmied ourselves into the car for preschool drop-off.
Driveway Photos from 2014
Many years ago my dad suggested to us that maybe we should turn our front yard into a driveway and then he sketched out a picture of what he thought it’d look like and about how much it’d cost. We kept that picture on our fridge for a long time, not ever pulling the trigger on getting the work done. As with most things that my dad (or mom) suggest to us around our house, when we finally converted our front yard into a paved driveway, we loved it.
Too bad we waited so long to do it and too bad that when my dad and Izak came to work on it, Washington decided to have some record-breaking heat. We went through plenty of popsicles the days they were here….the girls were very helpful, too.