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Every once in a while, I let Haley use my camera. It doesn’t happen often, because she has a nasty habit of turning it towards me!
It was soooooo windy. My hair just wouldn’t stay out of my face.
I was leaning on this map of the park and Haley was
trying to get me to smile. …
25 things outside of my friends and family that bring me joy . . .
Long hot bubble baths
Rocky road ice cream
The GEICO Gecko (adorable)
Sitting at the edge of the river
Reading stories with happy endings
The taste of ice tea on a hot day
Photographing the world around me
Slow dancing
Kicking butt at air hockey
Life in the country
The smell …
There’s always gonna be another mountain. I’m always gonna want to make it move. Always going to be an up-hill battle. Sometimes I’m gonna have to lose. Ain’t about how fast I get there. Ain’t about what’s waiting on the other side. It’s the climb (Miley Cyrus Video)
There’s always gonna be another mountain
I’m always gonna …
When the world has gone crazy, I can always count on my kid to make me smile again, to help me understand what matters in life.
Excuse Me???????? (She got this look from her mama)
I have no idea what she is fixin to do with that soccer ball.
I close my eyes when she skates.
Awww… there is …
Surrounded in a million unseen faces, all in such a hurry to go somewhere, anywhere. Or, maybe nowhere . . .
Suffocating in the mass of people.
Yearning for the nearly forgotten familiar feeling of southern tranquility, not understanding where it has gone.
So very afraid that I may never find it again.
Realizing that home …
In a world which often makes very little sense to me, there is one thing I know I can always count on, the absolute killer smile of my kid.
Life could be falling down around us, and it doesn’t matter to her. She shuts it all out, puts on that dangerously wicked grin, and just enjoys …
Texas has been good for the kid, but life is much the same. She still loves nature, especially around water.
She still loves to play in the park.
And of course, climb the monkey bars.
Her cell phone still rings way more often than mine does.
And, she still abandons me at the first sight of a skater.
The more …
Over the last 18 months we have faced a roller coaster of challenges, triumphs, setbacks, heartache, and pain. Through it all, I have learned that I can choose to wallow in self pity, drown the sadness in brandy, or I can choose to make a DECISION to start truly living again, to pull myself up …
“Here I go again on my own, goin’ down the only road I’ve ever known. Like a drifter I was born to walk alone. An’ I’ve made up my mind, I ain’t wasting no more time.” Here I Go Again (Whitesnake)
Have you ever had the feeling that you should have known, but then realize that …
Woah! Cricket’s gone pink? What’s up with that? Yeah, I don’t see me as a pink kind of girl either, so it takes something very important for me to decide to make my blog so pink. Any ideas? Yup, you guessed it. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
“Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an annual …
With only 23 days left until we see Mississippi in our rear view mirror, we decided to spend the day out on a long country ride taking pics.
Even though we faced some of the biggest challenges we have ever faced here, we will also be leaving some of our fondest memories, such as meeting friends …
When I need to reflect on life, I tend to head down to the river. There is something about the boat landing that has a way of helping me accept and deal with the challenges life places in my path.
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, …
What the heck happened?
Where did she go?
I blinked my eyes for just one second, and suddenly my little girl is growing up before my very eyes.
I was lost in a world of confusion
searching for what, I did not know
every turn I took was the wrong one
leading me further and further away
So very weary of searching
I found myself going back
back to where it all began
to where I first started running
It was then I discovered
what I had been looking for
you were right …
You are the kind of friend that only comes along once in a lifetime.
You know the good, the bad, and the ugly about me, and you still put up with me anyway, because we are friends.
We share tears during heartbreaks, words of encouragement during challenging times, and above all we share laughter.
Even now, as I …
We were gonna spend the day doing a photo shoot, but . . .
Sometimes, ya just have to take time to play.
Hang on for dear life, and enjoy the laugh.
Dang! It is harder to climb these than I remember!
This little girls seems to be explaining to Haley that there is a much easier way to …
Sometimes life throws us a few curves, like the wind picking up when we are simply trying to get a drink of water.
Instead of giving up, block the wind, and take a drink anyway.
When I saw the look on her face, with a camera in her hands, I recognized the feeling immediately. She was lost in another world.
I am never going to get my camera back, am I?
It was clear from the start that she was completely at ease with a camera in her hands, almost as if it …