valentines day at my house looking like this for most of the day...watercolour after watercolour!
their creative souls got fed but sadly I forgot about lunch...parent fail!
#lifeunscripted
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i've always said that amara is our "lap dog". Which is nice because we are never getting an animal! i have three animals.
human animals are plenty!
all mom's KNOW what i'm talking about. if you have kids, a husband and a dog you should get a metal or have a day named after you.
{i get shivers just thinking about it. seriously good for you. you ARE better then me, hands down...i can't do it. the constant mess would leave me rocking in the corner sucking on an empty bottle of gin}.
so whenever possible, she (amara) climbs up on either my hubby's legs or mine (or pretty much anyone she likes) to nuzzle, cuddle and chit chat (and sometimes to annoy the shit out of us because she can!). part of this is pure amara amazingness and part of it may be she thinks she's a dog or maybe she was one in a past life...or perhaps, since we are not getting a family pet, she would take the role on (way to be a team player amara!)
whichever it is, i love every slobbery second of this maddening 6 year old's crazy antics!
enjoying the small things.
#lifeunscripted
in this one she even looks like she's got my legs as her own!
me and my golden lab...photo creds ken (grandpa)
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everyday you drift into my thoughts, so far it's been 363 times, tomorrow it will be 364 and the day after it will be a year.
you are always there... like clouds in the sky, wind through a window, a smell of coffee in the air, an image you pass everyday. always there. always.
you linger in me. somedays i smile at your memory, some days i shake my head (did this really happen and in the why's of it all), somedays i live in the guilt of having my little girl here beside me while you are no longer able to be and other days i linger in the space of your mother and her reality of never being able to smell you and love you with her touch... those days are the worst.
sometimes i speak to you, out loud. "i know your here, watching over us...sending us butterfly's"
the everyday thoughts build up in me like a stacking of cards from a deck, eventually the cards will crumble. i rebuild. then repeat the process.
when you passed, you gently and lovingly stole little pieces of everyone's hearts, to be honest you already had a piece of mine. the whole will never fully heal, only enough to keep us moving forward. slowly.
the moment you left us sophie, you became our teacher. and i (along with many others) have learned in these 363 days to live (more so) in the now and that tomorrow is a gift and to be unbelievably grateful for it.
this week i (and all of us) relive the days leading up THAT moment, the reality of what all of our lives would be from that email on. i hate THIS, i hate how it makes me feel, i hate thinking about your family right at this very second and what they are living through this week. i just hate it that i can't take your mom's pain away. i hate that i can't take amara's pain away.
BUT on day 365 i will walk with your family and village, together united, bring light in where there is darkness, honour your day one with love, memories and sorrow. and maybe just maybe HATE a little less going forward.
