At our swimming pool, that is. Myles declared the swimming season open today by taking a spontaneous swim in his shorts. Shorts which, earlier, he had decided worked best backwards, because then he could use the back pocket as a front pocket. Ingenious genes, egh? As Myles dove in and we encouraged him and clapped [...]
Archive for September, 2010
It’s open season!
Posted in Durban Photography, Family on September 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My one weakness
Posted in Design, Family, Photography on September 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I LOVE getting mail. I really really do. So much so that when we got back to South Africa after three months in America, I sent myself mail to cheer myself up. Most of the time I don’t even let myself wander onto Etsy because there will be ten thousand things I want and shouldn’t [...]
Today my brother is cool.
Posted in Family, Inspiration, Photography on September 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
He used to hate me. Shut me out of his room. Wrestle me to the ground and keep me there until I cried, “mercy!” He ignored me and picked on me and was generally really mean to me whenever he had a spare moment. Look, even In this photo he looks like he’s about to [...]
Trees
Posted in Nature on September 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I am pacing with anxiety. The neighbors are chopping down all their trees. My little secret garden is disappearing. It used to be that they could not see into our garden (yard) and we could not see into theirs. They have opened up a porthole into their world that is most unwelcome. I do not [...]
Surviving the Chicken Pox: Day 7
Posted in Photography on September 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We are officially out of the dark woods and dancing in a field full of sunshine covered daisies! Myles is scabby, but mostly scabless. Today he made his first public appearance in over a week, at church. The pastor didn’t even kick him out! I’m not sure if that was because Myles looked ok, or [...]
Surviving the Chicken Pox: Days 5 and 6
Posted in Coffee Guy, Myles and Neo, Photography on September 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
We’ve not only had the Chicken Pox, we’ve had a serious case of the cranks and our CRAPS have been off the charts! My CRAPS are down to about a two on the very prestigious Crankiness Rate Awareness Positioning System (CRAPS), of which I am the author. The CRAPS operate on a sliding 1-10 scale. [...]
Surviving the Chicken Pox: Day 4
Posted in Expat living, Myles and Neo, Photography on September 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I lied, it sucks. My post from day 3 made it sound like “all is well, I’m just sitting over here taking pretty pictures.” It wasn’t that rosy, but my One Line A Day Five Year Memory Book (which is normally filled with my literary genius) states it a little more accurately. “Chicken Pox sucks. [...]
Surviving the Chcken Pox: Day 3
Posted in Myles and Neo, Photography on September 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I snapped this on my “photo break” today. Smokers get smoke breaks, right? Well, I take photo breaks. Today I needed one! We had a great morning, a chicken pox play date actually. It was so fun catching up with my friend Megan and her pox covered daughter Anja. Then there was a very crabby [...]
Surviving the Chicken Pox: Day 2
Posted in Myles and Neo on September 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The last time I pulled are really truly honest to the Almighty all-nighter was in high school… until last night. Myles woke up at 10pm, just as we were getting ready to “hit the hay,” and was unable to get back to sleep. He was so itchy and over tired and inconsolable and uncomfortable. We [...]
Surviving the Chicken Pox: Day 1
Posted in Myles and Neo, Photography on September 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The key here is not necessarily to slather them in african potato, calamine lotion, tea tree oil, and oatmeal rubs… it’s to not look shocked. All I wanted to do when I saw Myles this morning was hug him and cry and check out each of his festering pustules while murmuring, “You poor baby!” Instead, [...]
A picture a year.
Posted in Photography on September 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday Myles informed me that he only wanted one picture a year, on Christmas, and that it was NOT Christmas. Poor creature, he has no idea who his shutter crazy mother is.
The family pooch
Posted in Dogs and Kids, Photography on September 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This is Ella, hunk o’ great dane love. With us from the beginning. When we had no family, she became our family… and now she runs our family. Protecting us, loving us, GROWING with us. She was there when we brought back strange bundles from the hospital. Bundles who went from keeping her up at [...]
Our Family Session!
Posted in Coffee Guy, Myles and Neo, Photographers, Photography on September 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The last time we got family photos taken Myles was still in diapers and Neo did not exist. The amazingly talented Krystal Muellenberg changed all that for us! She even managed to shoot most of our session with her almost two-year old Chase strapped to her back! Now that’s talent! We were so glad she [...]
Aaaaarrrrrrrrg.
Posted in Expat living, Photography on September 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Our time in the States seems so long ago. It was not just “awhile” ago, more like a planetary system or a hyperspace jump ago. Since then we have gotten the boys sleeping again, gotten Myles settled back into preschool, met up with all our besties that we missed like the sun misses the rain, [...]
Melatonin is a jet lag wonder!
Posted in Dogs and Kids, Expat living on September 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Here is me, hanging my head low saying, “sorry little blog for abandoning you again.” The last three weeks have been an overwhelming whirl wind full of packing, saying goodbye, eating one last taco, saying goodbye some more, packing some more, eating one last ice cream cone, packing, saying goodbye, shopping for chocolate chips and [...]
