A year ago, they were learning the art of gentle loving and forehead kisses; now, they’re masters at the art of making baby giggle and distracting their tiny sister from the wails and cries by smothering her in love with hugs and kisses. Somethings just never do change, do they? I wonder – ultimately – if they ever will. See how the older sisters are doting in absolute adoration of their baby sister? From personal experience, that delighted affection doesn’t subside with time; in fact, time and distance might even make it more pronounced than ever.
Right now, for Savannah and Natalie and Madison, they are playing peek-a-boo and blowing bubbles and sharing hugs and memories through the boo-boos and the spiders and the I-want-my-bottle traumas. In high school, they will be sharing fashion tips and giggling through crushes and crying together when the crush isn’t reciprocated. In their twenties, as friends-only-sisters-can-be, phone calls and emails will define that bond and the tears will be a little heavier than defined childhood owies and the teenage crushes.
But here they start: forging the bond that could be tighter than any other despite the childhood quabbles, stronger because of the shared experiences, and more joyful in the delight of it all.
Happy sister-celebration-day, a holiday of my own declaration in honor of my own sister and in celebration of Savannah-Natalie-Madison and the sister-bond that is flourishing.
He saw the gap in the retaining wall long before anyone else would have noticed its existence. It was only an 18inch indentation where the water had eroded away the sand from the playground, but it *needed* to be fixed. He looked around, combing the area for tools. There wasn’t much, but he found…
Once there was a family named Diachuk. They came from a land of duck and canuck. The family named Diachuk Took a girl named Jennifer To the place of swimming cre-a-tures. The Vancouver Aquarium. (And I tried to be a poet once. I failed. And today, I failed again. This is embarrassing.) The…
She was a vision of pink. Savannah sat on the living room floor proudly showing off her perfectly situated pink headband, sitting daintily in her pink-and-white-striped shirt, and shyly proud of the sparkles on the hemline of her jeans. She played with her pink dollhouse and sang along while the princesses-dressed-in-pink sang their Karaoke. Natalie…
The rain, the threatening thunderstorms, and the humidity tried to put a damper on our day – literally and figuratively – but it couldn’t. Oh…no….never. Not when its time to celebrate such a beautiful, pivotal, exciting season. And especially not when Todd and Marcela are counting down the days until they can meet their Jacob….
Devin and Callie’s family photos are proof that it is possible to have (successful and frameable) family photos in twenty minutes and have fun in the process. Necessity is the mother of invention, you see. Between my unfortunately tight schedule in Jerusalem, Devin’s work responsibilities, and two adorably cooperative but increasingly hungry and tired children, the clock started ticking…
Just over a year ago, I was hanging out with Jimmy and Alisha on their wedding day. We were laughing, the bridesmaids were maybealittlebitstressing, Jimmy was beaming, and Alisha was giggling. But most importantly, they were vowing…they were getting married. And now look at them: they’ve had their one-year-anniversary, they’ve adopted a puppy (his name…
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As i told you in email…..If your goal was to make me cry, then you were successful. Jennifer, these photos and this blog touched my heart..To pick up on the bond my girls share forever was the sweetest..Thank you for your time and energy with my family…Until next time….:)
As i told you in email…..If your goal was to make me cry, then you were successful. Jennifer, these photos and this blog touched my heart..To pick up on the bond my girls share forever was the sweetest..Thank you for your time and energy with my family…Until next time….:)
Love this photoshoot! Their outfits are just adorable!