Project Life - Week 16

Shortcake pretending to be a brunette?

Project Life - Week 11

Theme: Morning

In the mornings we gather at the window to wave good-bye and blow kisses to Papa as he heads off to work.  Love that man.  Then off we go to breakfast, chore charts, and lessons.

Since taking this photo, the company that EH has worked at for the last 15 years closed its doors.  It was a surprise to us all.  We're in the process of sending out resume, after resume, after resume and seeking God's will for this next phase of life together.

Project Life - Week 9

Theme: Blue

Shortcake, 3 years

Project Life - Week 7

It all started with Math.  Agent E likes a little head massage while he's thinking through his multiplication tables, so I obliged him.  Shortcake wanted to show some love too so she found Agent H's head while he studied his AWANA lesson.  She has such gentle hands.  And then Agent H returned the loving act.  I love how Shortcake's eyes are closed and she is just resting in his tender hands.

Project Life - Week 6

The assignment this week was "Special".

 This week's photo is me and one of my bosom friends on a recent ski trip. Yes I just said bosom friend. Thank you Anne of Green Gables (or rather L.M. Montgomery) for coining that phrase.

Project Life - Week 5

The assignment for week five was "routine".  

Shortcake would have a bath every.single.day if she could.  As it is, she almost does.  So we draw a bath with some of the bubbles she got for Christmas (California Baby) and she plays with a few toys or just feels the water run over her toes as the tub fills.

Then it's time to get wrapped up in a towel and hold her warm, wet little body close as we make our way to her room (oh my she's getting tall).  On the way out of the bathroom we avoid the random water splotches on the bathroom floor so I don't get stuck with a wet spot on my sock (because I'm probably on my last clean pair).

Her favorite monkey PJs are folded and waiting in her drawer (on a good day).  Then we go back to the bathroom where she pulls out the blowdryer and waits for me to plug it in.  She holds the dryer and passes me a comb.  She pretty much keeps the dryer in one place giving her a semi-permanent lift to that part of her hair until her next bath.

Clean, dry, happy, and content she bounces from the bathroom on to her next adventure.

Routine.

Project Life 2014 - Week 4

Last week's photo challenge was "window lighting".  I turned the camera to M (manual) . . . scary!  I tried lots of different shots and decided the kids just move too fast for me to get a shot that isn't blurry.  This is Agent L's lovable Philbin and Shortcake's very loved Lambie.

Here are a few of my other attempts just for memory's sake.

Little Miss Shortcake showing off the banana patch that I attached to her monkey pjs.

Project Life 2014 - Week 3

Here's my book stack again. I thought I'd use it for the week 3 challenge "Learning".

Project Life 2014 - Week 2

It was either the effort we spent trying to get up those hills or the cold winter air that added a blush to our cheeks.  The warmth of friendship.

Project Life 2014 - Week 1

I joined a photography group for this new year.  I'm not the photographer around here but I do enjoy trying to "catch moments".  Since I was assured this was a very low-key group just having some fun and a lot of them are from our church, I thought I'd try it out.  Last week's theme was "New".

This is my NEW tea pot.  My in-laws spoiled me with this beauty.  (Thank you!)  Here's a crunchy tid-bit: it's ceramic and won't leach any metal into our water as it comes to a boil.  So far my husband loves it because it doesn't shreak-whistle like our old pot did.  The temperature outside right now is a steamy -15 with a windchill of -50, we're drinking lots of hot tea (Rooiboz these days) and honey water for the kids.