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this baby you guys...

                                                     happy birthday to our "one-derboy"
                                                                  our love bug
                                                                   our baby b.
                                             
                                                  we love him so much it kind of hurts. : )

                                                                         xox

may 17, 2020

it's me you guys, i'm back.

there's this "thing" in the air called covid19 and none of us understand it
or like it.
we aren't supposed to leave our houses
or see our grandbabies.
we are supposed to wash our hands about 126 times a day and there's not a
clorex wipe to be found in this whole dang city.
i sewed 35 masks to donate and then ran out of elastic and started planting seeds.

people are teaching themselves to bake bread and make kombucha
like never before.
we don't know what to do with ourselves or how long we'll be
in quarantine and we're all
sick of cleaning drawers and having so much time to think. 

 my phone takes such good
pictures that that's about all i use if i'm just shooting for myself and not clients.
then it's a whole lot of work to transfer the phone pics to
my computer, so i rarely do it but here i am showing up with some pretty
pictures to hopefully brighten your day. : )

if you haven't discovered ranunculus you're missing out on

one of the most beautiful flowers in God's creation.

you can find them for sale for just a few precious 

weeks in the spring. 

buy them when they are in pretty tight buds and they

can grace your table for up to a month.

yes from 3 weeks to a month!!!

having flowers in the house has proven to be as good for your health as a multi-
vitamin. (*that's according to quite a bit of research on my part).
green plants improve air quality and
flowers improve your mood. it's a win-win.
an actual necessity if you ask me.

i tried something my gram used to do to winter over her geraniums.
in the fall you just dig them up, shake off the soil and put them in
a paper grocery bag somewhere cool. (but not freezing).
you do nothing. nothing. no light and no water all through the winter
and then in early spring you pot them back up, water and set them
in a sunny window and i am so excited to report
that all but one of mine leafed back out!

don't you think i should wrap this up with a couple pictures of our precious
grandson's baptism? the day he was baptised was the last day the country was
allowed to run around like normal crazy people before we all got our
quarantine orders to stay at home.
that seems like a long time ago but i am trusting we'll see normal again before too
much longer- and until then i'll be digging in the dirt with my gardening apron on,
drinking ice tea and picking bouquets for my table and if you're close by hopefully
there will be enough to share with you too!

keep being patient and kind,
xox

dec. 13, 2019

I'm not sure how to wrap my head around the fact

that it's going to be the year

2020 

in eighteen days.

Now when I say I was born in 1958

it's really going to sound

"last century".

2020 would be a fabulous year to be born or to get 

married in though... it just has a great ring to it doesn't it?

*I've heard that Barbara Walters might do the New Years Eve

ball drop- count down, so she can say

"This is Ba Ba Walters and this is 2020."

I played with light tonight, taking pictures in front

of our Christmas tree, trying to freeze the feeling

that the Christmas season gives me and capture what is 

called bokeh, the blurred effect seen in the

out of focus portion of a photograph.

(I was also trying out a new lens that I haven't 

quite mastered yet and practicing is part of that ).

I decided to upload a few to share. 

There is much to be done in the next week, and

it's feeling really festive around town. 

I didn't do as much "decking" as I used to, but 

less feels like more and I just got out

a few of my favorite things to deck our halls and add 

Christmas cheer to the house and it feels perfect.

2019 was a really good year for our family,

looking back I can't even believe how blessed we were.

Not all years are the ones that you will 

remember that way so 

for that I am triple-y (I made that word up, it's more than

double for you mathematicians out there) thankful.  : ))

Family is coming my way today and we're going to celebrate birthdays

and a very deserved retirement.

woo hoooooo~

Happy Holidays from our house to yours~ xo

heaven sent~ a birth story

HELLO!!!! 

in case you haven't heard~

we have a precious new family member, a second little grandson, born to our daughter

and son in law in july.  i don't blog much any more but decided to give it 

a try so that i could share some photos of him.

(proud grandma here- and not even a teensy bit apologetic saying that).

 : )) 

blogging is challenging now because for some reason I upload things and 

write copy and then most of the time right before i'm ready to 

publish, it all disappears so i'm going to put all my words up top

and hope that that will stop this from happening (for the third time).

baby b. was born a whole month early and needed

a bit of help breathing for the first day so right after his birth he went to the 

NICU where he was taken marvelous care of for a few days.

i got to go stay with his big brother and we visited mom and 

dad most of the days they were in the hospital.

children are not allowed in the NICU so being only

21 months old, I don't imagine brother bear really knew

what was going on and didn't get to be introduced to his baby,

 but he sure was happy to see his 

mommy and daddy (and they him) and he was very curious about

all the bells and whistles in a hospital room. 

he tried mom's breast pump out to make sure it was working

properly after watching her use it.

*help like that is priceless and it was hilarious!!

*can you imagine being 21 months old and waking up from your nap

and your mom and dad are home from 5 days away and they have

with them this little person that wasn't here before. 

"umm, who is that

and where did you get him?

...he's not staying is he???

well, no one asked me" 

: @

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the first photos are in the hospital and then there are some

from a more intentional newborn shoot I got to do for them 

the next week.

  

then the last few photos were baby B in a sleeper from

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

 when he was 11 wks. old.

he is changing so fast and has been the most perfect

baby. I don't think any of us (well maybe mom and dad?)

have even heard him cry!

he's cooing and smiling and we wish we could freeze this 

precious stage of his life for a few months longer.

both sides of the family are so in love with these two little boys

and we feel so incredibly lucky to have them in our lives.

congratulations to our daughter and her hubbie. 

here you are then, here's our beautiful grandson's beginning.

(for privacy reasons we don't publish names).

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