Ice cream and Awesome Pics

Ethan and Gavin were spectacular today. We spent an hour today in Central Park and both boys were SUPER eager to have pictures taken! There were soooo many good ones.

The coolest thing was, my own daughter Mia was pretty well-behaved, too. There was one little flub: at the beginning of the photo shoot she went sliding down a gravel hill (on purpose). She started shouting, “cancel the photo shoot! I’m hurt!” I just sort of chuckled at the typical Mia-wanting-the-spotlight comment. Luckily, Ethan and Gavin’s parents are BOTH nurses, so they tended to her scrapes while I snapped dozens upon dozens of awesome pics of the boys.

And even BETTER… I took Mia to Ben and Jerry’s afterwards to reward her for hanging out with us for an hour! They have the best new ice cream… I think it’s called “Late Night”… vanilla ice cream with salted caramel and chocolate-covered potato chips. Yes! Potato chips! It’s amazing. Just like the pictures of Gavin and Ethan! Wahoo!

The Basham kids posed for me today… they were really cute. I’m always so amazed at how sweet these two are with one another. I asked their mother what her secret is and she said it just happened… from the day Kieran was born, big sister Caitlin adored him.

Ahh… I wish we could get a teaspoonful of that over here at the Harmon house!

So I’m a little ADHD, so what?

Ever heard of the children’s series “If You Give A Pig a Pancake” and other books by Laura Numeroff? That is so ME.

If you give a Mom a cup of coffee, she’ll taste it and need to heat it up in the microwave. When she goes to the microwave she’ll notice it’s dirty. She’ll go to the laundry room to get some cleaner. In the laundry room she’ll see the iron-on transfers she was using for a Halloween costume. She’ll start cutting them out and ironing them on the costumes. The Halloween shirts will make her think of haunted houses. She’ll go in to the garage, get some plywood and a jigsaw, and start creating one. When she runs out of plywood, she’ll head for the store to go buy some more. On her way to the store, she’ll see a shoe sale at a really cute boutique. She’ll buy the prettiest shoes ever. The pretty shoes will remind her of a really cute picture she saw of a woman with really cute shoes on. She’ll go home and grab her camera. Her camera will have dozens of photos to download and photoshop so she’ll sit at her computer to work on them. Sitting at her computer, she will want a cup of coffee... 

Back with a Bang

Funny how hobbies rise and fall like the sun..

I used to blog, a year ago.

Then, I took a writing class and the teacher told me not to blog, but to save my work for possible publication. Well... that seemed like a good idea. I saved everything in folders. Never shared them. Never sent them out to get published, either. (well that’s no fun!)

Then, I took a photography class. That teacher told me:

create a blog.

So here I am. I’m baaaaa-aaaaaack!