i’ve been so very busy lately.
and, although i’m swamped with photos and orders and happy for the business, i can’t wait for things to slow down a bit. both brett & i have been working a lot. we haven’t seen much of each other except at night when we’re both tired.
there’s been a lot of i-can’t-deal days where there’s crying and messes and food to be made and diapers to be changed and orders to be put in and people to call. not to mention, the evil tooth hasn’t come in yet. she actually points to the place where it hurts now…bottom left smack dab between little cuspid and big molar
…but just when i start to think “i can’t deal,” it’s the end of the day…and i realize, i dealt.
in between the “i-can’t deal”s, there’s….
flowers delivered to the door…from a client/friend’s baby with a note that says “thank you for taking my pictures.”
there’s hot coffee in the morning. there’s tomato soup and toasted pb&j’s. there’s hot baths and lavendar tub salts. there’s wearing the good perfume on a regular day and pulling clean cotton sheets from the dryer. there’s listening to this song in the car and cranking up the volume because it makes me feel like a rockstar. there’s turning it down quickly after because it made lainey cry. there’s this-too-shall-pass and feeling brett reach over in the middle of the night to hold my hand and remembering how much i love him. there’s lower gas prices, ice cream in the freezer, a frosted mug waiting for a cold beer tonight, and a camera that takes a billion pictures…for free. there’s mac red lipstick and my favorite white pants all ironed in the closet. there’s a dunkin donuts up the street with sesame seed bagels waiting for me to take them home. a big beautiful ocean four miles from my house. sunshine and blue skies and the excitement of maybe…just maybe putting up the tree this weekend and making one of lainey’s first magic christmas moments. there’s knowing in four weeks, my big beautiful family is going to reunite for christmas…in the snow (please, please God!). there’s lipstick jungle on tonight and relishing in the fact that it’s friday.
there’s chubby toes.
and there’s this little face that transforms stress into beautiful, beautiful happiness.
…enjoying the small things. ~k
more to come this weekend from the homefront.
Ahhhhhhhh! Now I am better! Just Yummy!!!!!!
I too was wondering when you were going to return! And yummy sums up this post.
Once again, thanks for sharing! I love reading your posts & looking at your fabulous pictures!
Oh good. I am supposed to be working and thought I’d just *check* and see…I didnt’ realize how used to your daily posts I had become. Anyway, glad to know you are busy with all the right stuff. Holy teeth pain, I can relate. Have a fabulous weekend!
Will you go to the beach and dip your toes for me? I’ll kick up some leaves for you…
i love that last picture.
as you scan the computer down…it looks like a girl. a real live honest to goodness girl. and then you realize it is all toddler feet.
i will ask the weather godess for snow for you. so that you can enjoy it. and make me see the wonder in it, a little too.
glad to hear that you are dealing. like the others above…i miss when i don’t see your lovely pictures and hear your words of enjoyment.
wow….even I let the stress of the moment go when I saw those pics, that face…
and twin boy walked by, looked and said, “oh, is that Lainey Love?”
yum
Sweet post.
beautiful pictures and BEAUTIFUL baby. btw: I just heard they canceled LIPSTICK JUNGLE 🙁
I was getting worried, four days is too long to go without a lainey post!! Glad to hear you are busy with pictures! Can’t wait to see the new pictures you are working on 😉
Wylie
Oh, and a teething tidbit …
Hyland’s Teething Tablets.
If you’ve never tried them, give ’em a shot! They worked wonders on my little ones!
Around here you can get them at Walgreens & CVS.
Good luck!
LOVE this post.
I am sitting in a messy house with the sun shining outside.
The sun is gunna win. 🙂
Love you.
jc
PS Got honest to goodness chills when I read “there’s listening to this song in the car and cranking up the volume because it makes me feel like a rockstar”…LOVE it.
How do you make stress look fun? That is complete magic.
lainey is so beautiful! you are a wonderfull mommy!!
can’t wait to see you at cryderman christmas!! i am soo excited!
love you, tessa
that first one looks like she’s expressing your stress for you…somehow when it comes from an adorable toddler, it is acceptable and entertaining…at least for those of us looking from the outside!!!