Pink Flower

My own personal favorite from this week.

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Best Shot Ever

Do you ever take a photo and when you pull it up onto the computer screen you can almost hear angels singing? You start grinning and jumping out of your chair because you have taken what very well may be your best photo ever? That happened to me today. Because a dragonfly flew into my flower bed and I laid in the mulch and shot over and over again squinting in the bright sun, hoping my hands weren't shaking the camera too much.

And I got the best photo ever.



(IMHO)

Spring

Spring. It's finally warm and my children are playing for hours and hours outside until the early hours of the evening when they are walking around half falling over with tiredness.





And, I just love these:
I went out one morning, early, right after a really hard, soaking rain.


I'm finally posting on Theme Thursday again! Click over to Stacey's and see the rest!

My New Home Away From The Computer

Since spring is finally here we've been spending hours a day outside. We built a play set (I use the term "we" loosely), we planted some flowers, we played and played and played. And while I'm really enjoying that there are no dishes to do while I'm outside, there is no laundry to fold (only clothes to get really dirty), there are no floors to sweep and very few toys to pick up, there is also no computer. I have a whole bunch of things I do when I'm not interacting with my children 100%: a whole mess of chores and house stuff, but also blogging, emailing, photo editing, and then throw in treadmilling and TV watching and there's not enough time to fit it all in. What I'm saying is, some of the things that I can do around the kids while inside (dishes, laundry, checking an email here and there) I can't do while we're outside. Which is wonderful. I am spending time with my children uninterrupted by electronics or mundane, boring chores. But then when we come in I still have to do the mundane, boring chores and the computing gets pushed to the side. So, sorry, Mom, I know I haven't posted since Easter, but I'm raising happy, healthy children in the glorious dirt and fresh air. And taking lots and lots of pictures like these:







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