Meg

Mama and Dada were busy talking. Rianna was busy playing. And she especially wanted to play with the multi-colored cell phone Mama kept in her purse. It took all her concentration. Lips pursed, eyes serious, focus undeterred. Rianna worked on getting that special toy and worked and worked. Somewhere along the way, she found an…

Each step had to be careful, deliberate.  Slow movement was the only movement.  By all appearances, the river had been covering our pathway not too long before we’d arrived and our shoes held the mud to prove it. Step. Ssssssluhzs. Step.  Ssssssluhzs.  The mud-meet-shoe made a sucking/slurping/popping/mucous-blowing sound. Step. Ssssssluhzs. Step. Ssssssluhzs. But the mud…

“Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.”  Margaret Mitchell said it so much better than I ever could, and isn’t it true? On the morning of the long-anticipated fall family photo session, one child evidenced every ounce of stubbornness in those little bones while the other child grinned like nobody’s business….

 Planning an outdoor Williams Park photo session in March is risky business.  Especially when our British Columbia weather is so intensely unpredictable. Today, for example, was cloudy, sunny, drizzling, sunny, pouring, cloudy. I’m going to say it: springtime weather in B.C. is as fickle as a PMS’ing woman. Between cooperative sunshine poking its head into…

    With (almost) more paint on their clothes than had landed on the canvas, Mom had one more message to share with her kiddos.  While they were distracted by a few more chocolate donut holes, she painted a few letters letters…one word…and a quick arrow. Its not easy to create art on a moving,…