WW - Jump For My Love

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BSM - Heart On Her Sleeve

This was one of the shots that I did when shooting for the new Team Up Thursday challenge. I ultimately went with a different shot for the challenge but this one was too precious to me not to post. I am calling it my Best Shot for today.



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Isnt She Too Young For This?

I brought Ella to preschool the other day, and we go through the same motions every time. We go inside, take off her coat and set her backpack down with the others. We round the corner to her class and before she goes in, she turns around and gives me a hug and a kiss. She tells me she loves me, I tell her the same and to have a good day at school. Sounds normal for a 4 year old and her Mommy, right?

Well, yesterday was different. I think it was a turning point in her growth and our relationship. As we rounded the corner to her class room, she charged right into class. I said, "Ella, come here and say goodbye to me please."

She turned around and headed towards me. As she grabbed my hand she pulled me down and whispered for me to come around the other side of the wall. I asked her what was wrong. She replied, "I just don't want everyone to see me give you a hug and a kiss."

"What? Are you kidding me? Do we start this already?!", I thought.

I didn't push it. I gave her the biggest hug and kiss I could and told her I loved her.

I stayed in the classroom for a few minutes talking to someone, and in those few minutes, she came up to me twice and hugged my leg, telling me she loved me. I didn't want her to feel guilty for having those emotions or think that I felt bad. But I could tell that she was worried I was upset over the incident by the way she tried to make up for it before I left. I was ok. Just a little thrown back....Maybe she sensed that. I really didnt expect this for another year or two atleast. I'll take it in stride though, since its all a part of growing up.

But it means exactly that. My baby is growing up.....too fast.

Team-Up Thursday - Red

Team-Up Thursday is something new that Megan and Melody came up with last week. You collaborate with a partner, decide on a theme and create diptychs of your shots.

My buddy is Christina, and our theme for this week was RED.

Christina's photo is on the left and mine is on the right.



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WW - Mama's Little Helper

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BSM - Macro

Not quite in my own back yard, but if it was spring/summer it would have been. This whole winter season has brought my creativity down, down, down. That led me to the flower shop to get some flowers to shoot. Wishing I had some sunlight and greenery around right about now.....


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WW - Easy to Bake....Better to Eat

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BSM - Crazy Lady

I know some of you know what I mean when I say that it seems that when I am behind the camera, nothing much matters at the time but the subject I am looking at.

After I brought Ella to school one cold, cold day last week (I'm talking -10 degrees), I noticed these frosty snowflakes on top of my garbage bin outside the garage. What would you do? I ran inside, attached my macro lens to the camera, grabbed my tripod and ran back out. I knew once the sun came up and it was time to go get Ella from school, that these little treasures would be gone. What a weird neighbor I must have looked like standing there with my camera and tripod....shooting my garbage bin! You just know that these spiky little snowflakes were not on any one's mind if they saw me. You know they were thinking.....

There's that crazy lady who, while taking pictures of her daughter all the time, is rolling around in the dirt, laying in the middle of the road, hanging upside down from a tree and doing back flips. Now she's staring at her garbage bin?! What's next?

It's thier loss. They didnt get to enjoy the beauty of these fantastic little creations of nature up close like I did.


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WW - Go Fish

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