Everyday Beauty - Week 45 - Grateful
So, I am posting this the week after the attack in Paris and other bombings and attacks around the world. This is not new news, but the latest has pushed everything into the spotlight bringing out the best and worst in people. I am saddened by the terror that so many around the world live in. Every minute of every day. I have never known this kind of fear. My life is very easy in comparison and I have no legitimate complaints. I hope with all my heart that my children never know the type of fear so many children have only ever known. I am grateful to have a predictable and safe routine. This 365 photo a day project has at times been a little boring and the photos mostly uninspiring, but I vowed to finish. And here is what I realize, my boring is what is wished for by thousands and thousands every single day. I am so very grateful to have to opportunity to feel these feelings. I don't take for granted what I have and work hard to teach my girls that they are incredibly lucky to be born and living where they are. They don't really understand what happens around the world, but they are aware of all we do have.
I am grateful for the mundane and the silly, the incredible learning experiences my family and friends experience. We have the chance to exist and thrive and celebrate the little things.
I wish peace and safety for those who desperately need it. I have known refugees escaping wars. I admire them. What it must take to make an incredible leap, not of faith, but of desperation to try to save yourself and your children. I would do anything to save my children and to have to watch them suffer the way so many thousands must, I cannot comprehend. My heart breaks.
I am grateful.
These are the moments that seemed silly and boring and pointless, but are now very cherished.
Everyday Beauty - Weeks 42, 43 & 44 - Chaos
Alrighty, so I did manage to take a picture everyday, phone or otherwise, and as I am looking through them it would appear that they illustrate just how busy things have been. They are of things and activities and not lovely portraits of my kids.
Things have definitely been hectic and we go from voting to picture day to Halloween to Christmas in these three weeks. Granted Christmas isn't really Christmas it's just the mini sessions but still we ran the whole gamut.
There are just too many in here for me to label them all, but you're all smart and I am sure you can figure out most of them. :)
Everyday Beauty - Weeks 40 & 41-Thanksgiving
Ah, the busy season is in full swing in the photography world resulting in a messier house, being behind on this, missing a couple of days of the 365 and more coffee than is probably healthy. But, I love it and all the amazing families I get to shoot!
So here we go, two weeks and they went over Thanksgiving so there was some turkey and leaf fun with family. The girls are all into board games these days and have been introduced to a couple of favourites, The Game of Life and Parcheesi (aka Parmesan Cheesy) and would play them all day long if we let them.
Here we go, short and sweet so I can get back to editing.
My everyday
First place!
Someone is in my spot
I lost Thursday again...
Snow!
Pinterest win
Thanksgiving
Game of Life
Yeah, yeah, I lost Tuesday this week...
Reading across Canada
Restaurant
Hair in tiny buns a little too long. Simba.
Parmesan Cheesy
A wonderful extended family
Everyday Beauty - Week 39 - Cold
October has arrived and she came in like a wrecking ball! We had a cold few days which is fall weather, but about a week or so ago we were in the high 20s and this seemed like a bit of a shock to the system. We just did the usual things this week, swimming, Sparks, dance and then ended with some darn cold fun at the Markham Fair. The Markham Fair is always fun and seems to always be raining and/or windy but hasn't been too terribly cold in the past. Uh, well this one was windy, rainy and cold! There were hats and mitts involved in this visit and while the rain held off for the time we were there, some others weren't so lucky.
I love October, crazy busy as a photographer, but so lovely and beautiful too. Nothing like a warm sweater, fall colours, brisk air and a coffee....
Tickle fight
Naked Barbie :)
Chores
Girls love cars too
Talking to Grandma
Mmmm bacon
Little man at my shoot looking for his pockets
Everyday Beauty - Weeks 37 & 38 -Fall
Ah, well I missed posting last week and so we are having a two in one. I did not however miss a picture. Oh boy, oh boy.
It was a busy one and the start of fall so we jumped right into the fall activities, apple picking, scarecrow building, dressing up...
Someone in our family has been saving for months to buy herself a very expensive lego set that Mommy and Daddy were not willing to fork over the money for. It was $90! Yikes, these lego sets are awesome, but when I was a kid it was a big bucket and your imagination and probably our whole collection of lego cost less than $90. Anyway, she worked all kinds of jobs around the house and became our resident laundry folder for weeks and weeks. Finally she had it all and off we went. We are pretty proud of her as she never complained once about how long it was taking, she just worked and ticked off the boxes on her chart.
The days are getting shorter and a little cooler, but I would say that our start to fall has been pretty darn awesome!
The Man Cave
Sweet
Crickets
Step 1 - a face
Terry Fox Run
Apples
Step 2 - a body
Some seasonal confusion - Canada Day, a birthday flamingo, a scarecrow?
Cookies!
Laundry lady
New magazine in the mail
Dress up
Goal met!
Hulahooping
