The question is not what you look at, but what you see. –Henry David Thoreau Project {in the picture}.

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I have a moment.  A moment of silence.  A moment to sit, reflect, and hear my own thoughts.  Typically, I come to this space in the late night hours after foreheads have been kissed a final goodnight and darkness settles over our house.  However, at this moment, the sun is casting its brilliant rays through […]

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  • Sassytimes - March 6, 2012 - 1:05 pm

    Ah, I wish we were neighbors. 😉

    What a lovely reminder. Thank you.ReplyCancel

  • Marcie - March 7, 2012 - 2:09 am

    Beautiful words, as usual. 🙂ReplyCancel

  • Anonymous - March 8, 2012 - 2:51 am

    That was beautiful! Thanks! Hearing your words refreshed me…and I needed that. Those last two pictures of Meadow are stunning!
    MarieReplyCancel

Monday afternoon Chad and his Dad loaded Charlie and Chanelle into the car and headed to one of the most exciting events of the year. . . The Cleveland Auto Show.  (Your heart rate just increased, didn’t it?) Unfortunately (she writes sarcastically), since Meadow is a bit young to go, I had to skip the […]

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  • ally, zane, avery and nola - March 2, 2012 - 1:19 pm

    so true about their different needs…i need to start scheduling one on one dates! thanks for the reminder 🙂
    congrats on the 365 project!!ReplyCancel

  • Sassytimes - March 2, 2012 - 1:31 pm

    She is so beautiful. How wonderful to get to soak all of her up.ReplyCancel

  • Lissa @ lafcustomdesigns - March 2, 2012 - 5:11 pm

    Summer:

    Thanks for stopping in and visiting my blog. I'm sure you and your children will enjoy the pancakes! But it's Friday and I thought you were back to work. How is that after three months away? Feel free to email me privately.

    I love you posts and your little "pretty in pink" girl. I feel like I missed motherhood when I read your adventures and I only had two. I was so wrapped up in "doing it right" that I think I missed a lot of the fun of it. hmmmm.

    Well, I get to experience the joy of it in your beautifully engaging writing!!

    Have a great day!
    lafReplyCancel

  • Marcie - March 3, 2012 - 1:02 am

    One on one time with your sweet baby, such a treasure! Great photos, but with a subject as beautiful as that, how could they not be great!! Nice work…on the baby and the photos. 🙂ReplyCancel

  • kate • one more thing - March 8, 2012 - 7:45 pm

    Beautiful post Summer. I love having a toddler and a 4 month old, but I can completely relate to how special that one-on-one time is, especially with the little one.

    Knowing this is our last, makes it beautiful and bittersweet at the same time. Just as it happens during any precious one-on-one time I get, tears came to my eyes reading your post.

    Gorgeous photos by the way… and gorgeous baby girl 🙂ReplyCancel

It wasn’t on purpose.  I didn’t mean to do it.  Really, if you don’t know you are lying can it really be called a lie?  I think maybe it was more like ignorance.  I just didn’t know.  I was oblivious.  I mean, if boiling an egg without water didn’t clue me in, and sending my […]

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  • Anonymous - March 1, 2012 - 12:13 pm

    Embrace it, Summer. This is your life. (BTW, I appreciate the fact that there were none of the usual comparisons to your MIL.)ReplyCancel

  • Sassytimes - March 1, 2012 - 4:19 pm

    Oh man, how true is this? I am such a perfectionist and lately, well, it's hopeless. I've learned to let it go. Being 'Mama' is more important. 😉ReplyCancel

  • Trophy Life - March 1, 2012 - 10:11 pm

    hey – don't worry about me and my opinion, nope.

    the TRUTH is that pregnancy brain or not, you are Uniquely Summer. "happy not to drop the bat" pretty much sums (pun intended) it up! but, this is why i (so many) love you. if you said you had it all together, then i'd really call your bluff.

    this was a great post. and you DO have that loving thing down. and THAT is all that matters. the rest is just for laughing purposes and i don't know anyone who can laugh at themselves better than you. : )ReplyCancel

  • Adopted Aunt - March 2, 2012 - 4:33 am

    Thank you for being so honest! I will admit some days my house is a mess and I don't have three little ones just two big ones at the moment! One thing I learned 19 years ago when diagnosed with Lupus and then fibromyalgia was that God was telling me it doesn't need to be perfect, I have to listen to my body or am just to exhausted to do anything but hopefully the boys will remember I love them, e en though they had to help more at home. Love is the important thing! Believe me I have Jackie brain:)ReplyCancel

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.” — Robert Updegraff Of all the lessons life has thrown my way, one ranks above the […]

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  • Sassytimes - February 28, 2012 - 1:34 pm

    I hope you have a great day today, Summer! The sun in shining for you!

    (We have a VERY big day here today…on the complete opposite spectrum. I'm very nervous and anxious, so this post is a perfect reminder to me to just relish in each moment and not worry about what's going to happen at 4pm. 🙁 )

    So, thank you!ReplyCancel

  • lisa - February 28, 2012 - 2:48 pm

    Good luck with your departure tomorrow…and enjoy and savor every moment of today! 🙂

    Every day that we are given is a blessing.ReplyCancel