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From the family vault

I dug up this gem from the girls early days. This was back when I hardly had an idea of how a camera operated and thought I needed to pay people to take pictures for me *gasp!*

Tessa is busy picking a winner and Mira is navel gazing. Can you tell we are related?

Putting a joyful foot forward

I woke up this morning tired of the stress and worry. Living under a cloud is exhausting. Things have started looking up and I’m going to embrace that.

I started with a colorful new header. Then I rinsed off a bowlful of glistening fat strawberries and took the boys out back to enjoy the day.

Later, [...]

Sometimes you get so busy holding your breath

that you forget to breath.

There’s been a lot going on behind the curtain of the Fidget family, blerg-y no fun stuff. Taking pictures is less stressful then talking so that’s what I’ve been doing.

Saffi is busy growing. Funny how they do that.

The boys are making sure to keep me on my toes, [...]

On Sunday, we laid The Hubster’s Mema to rest. Her church referred to it as “moving day.” It was the first time we took the 4 older children to a funeral, though this was the second of Saffi’s short life. I’m not big on the idea of children at funerals- they can be rather scary. [...]