Thursday, December 22, 2011

the now

read this quote the other day...

“...the biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this life.

I did not live in the moment enough.

This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of the three of them sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4 and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night.

I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed.
I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.”
~Anna Quindlen

such a heavy blessing, such a sacred burden, is this parenting of many small blessings.

Monday, December 12, 2011

eucharisteo

Robert Louis Stevenson has said...

“The man who has forgotten to be thankful has fallen asleep in life."

Saturday, December 10, 2011

holidays at home

christmas came early...with thanksgiving!!
thanks to my awesome sister and bro in law, we have a new-to-us camera!
aren't these pics nice!!??

PLUS...gram and Papa joined us in LA for thanksgiving!!!!
we had a not so traditional dinner of tri-tip and ribs! (and a trip to the beach)
the food, the fun, the time...everything was awesome!
it all went by way too fast and we miss gram and papa terribly!
we enjoyed every moment with them...we are still naming those moments as things we are thankful for!
family...such a sweet gift!

Friday, December 2, 2011

small ones

she's like holding sunshine in my arms...
these days they go by so quickly...




i turned around and years have slipped by!


happy number four small one!