Jasper

I thought to myself, it's been a while since I've last tried to post some pics so what do I have to lose. So here it is.

A pic of Mish, last summer, while we were out for a hike one of Jaspers many hikking trails.












Seth and Mish going up on the Tram Way. Look at those cheeks man!
My darling girls.
My handsome boy Collier.

In Real Life

Have some thoughts but they are just too much for me to articulate at this moment in time.

About missing...

But on a different note...

You know how sometimes you go out to a movie? Maybe a funny movie and there is that obnoxious person somewhere not too far from you who happens to find EVERYTHING absolutely hilarious and it's not that your totally lacking in sense of humor but maybe it's just not the lol kinda laughter! Been there? Maybe like me you were fortunate enough to sit right beside that person... oh wait that's because you came WITH the person. Haha!!

Well get this. Today I WAS that person! Dan in Real Life. Loved it! Only because I live it. I live it in so many different ways. I laughed, I cried, I cried while laughing. But in the end there is one thing that makes a blockbuster movie for me and that is this! I have to walk away being inspired to be so much more. So much more especially when it comes to my kids. And it did. In a very "real life kinda way". And so I loved it... four and a half out of five. But you might not appreciate it. Having teenage daughters kinda helps....

Thinking of giving this place a bit of a face lift. Another night.

A Night Like Tonight

There are some nights
When one simply cannot
Kiss their children enough...

Winter Fest

Today was a pretty great day. Nothing extremely out of the ordinary to make it so. Just a simple day out in the great out doors with my family.

Although I have to say it is not often that my six year old participated... and joyfully might I add, in much of anything and to our delight he did just so. I swear he's got the most handsome smile in the whole universe. I love the way his eyes light up. It is at moments such as these I ask myself,

"How could you ever be anything but a delight?" A mothers labour pains are quickly forgotten. A condition that seems to remain so even as time passes.

My baby girl lost another tooth today. She's pretty proud of herself. Just the other night I asked her what her favourite food was. She pondered it a while. You see, food... it's pretty near and dear to her heart and this was not a question to take lightly. Cake. Ice cream. Cotton Candy. It could be any one of those but it's not.

'Bread." she answers in one simple word. I cannot help but smile....


And my Seth whom I am still trying to convince that even though he is not a baby anymore and quite on the contrary, is growing up into a rather handsome little fella', he is indeed still my baby. Always will be.

Maybe if I bribe him...

Qe Sera Sera

I write often. I really do. It's just that... Your hand, it muffles the sound of my voice.

I cried today. A relief of sort. I was starting to question my own humanity. How could I have held out so long? I still wonder in disbelief. But I guess I'm human after all. Slightly calloused. A little hard around the edges. Yet still there, beating as it should be.

It's funny. Then again. It's not. How is it, being seas apart you still manage to take? The world was up for grabs and yet, it was my little corner your deep black eyes, your gaze... it rested upon. And why does this surprise me so...

I quiver. As I always do. Not do to fear, nor the chill in the air. I've come to accept it as so.

Meet me at the river. I will leave you there.