Another glimmer of light in the wake of my Father’s passing.
It’s still really early on, but since Boo has told everyone she knows, I wanted to share the exciting news too…..so you hear it from me first:
I guess this means some baby-related and maternity tutorials in the near future 🙂
P.S. My beautiful niece Courtney was born last night too!
It’s been two weeks since my father passed away.
It’s hard going through someone else’s possessions when they are gone…..it makes you think about your own life and what you value. My dad was meticulous and left notes about everything. We found “get dance lessons with Shelley” (my mom) on his to-do list along with countless other things that touched our hearts. He truly valued what was important.
Today is my parent’s 38th wedding anniversary……we found these photos on my dad’s computer of their honeymoon and first years together. My brother, sister and I oohed and ahhed over each one. My sister and I would comment on my mother’s clothes and she would chime in every once in a while “oh, I made that!”
My parents went to the Outer Banks in N.C. and Williamsburg for their honeymoon in 1973. They took us kids on a full honeymoon tour 18 years ago for their 20th anniversary and we visited each….and….every….place.
Air conditioning and color TV!
I’m wondering if they coordinated these outfits:
My parents truly loved each other unconditionally.
You can tell that my father adored my mother just by the photos he took of her….and you can tell my mother adored him too by they way she looked back into the camera 🙂
My parents have always been so playful and funny…..this series of photos made me realize they’ve always been that way 🙂
I can hear my dad now: “Shelley, take a picture of me feeding this Frito to a seagull. Then I’ll get a picture of you feeding a Frito to them.”
They are so cute I can’t even stand it:
And today is my sweetheart’s birthday too! We celebrated with dear friends last weekend…..a “stay-cation” at La Quinta Resort.
Happy Birthday Mr. LBB!
One last note: the camera used to take all those honeymoon photos? We still have it. Here’s Boo using “Grandpa’s” camera to take some photos of Diesel this last weekend:
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I loved playing with my mother’s houseplants when I was little. I would pretend they were tiny forests and I would make little hammocks, furniture, dishes etc out of paper, tin foil and tape for my imaginary Thumbelina-sized friends who lived in them. I gave Boo a large pot today with a variety of plants and told her it was a forest for her little fairies……she played with it for hours:
Don’t even get me started on these itty bitty miniature landscapes by Wee Green Spot…I think I have to have one:
photo source: wee green spot
photo source: wee green spot
