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Monday night, when the coach dismissed the boys from their last (praise God!) baseball game of the season, he followed it up with, “Let’s get together for a parents-vs-kids game on Wednesday!” I clamped down on the biggest “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” ever heard in the history of humankind. (Yes, I too can do idiotic superlatives that bear…
Read MoreOn Holy Saturday, we were running an errand for my mom at the local photo/camera store, and Christian decided to surprise me with the camera lens I’ve been wanting for a long time–one that has a super-low F stop. I hadn’t had time to play around with it too much (see: busy) until this past weekend. Saturday…
Read MoreMichael had the iPad last night at Julianna’s last therapeutic horseback riding lesson of the spring session. Enjoy his photos, and a couple videos at the end! I did not think I would be able to share any of the videos Michael took of Julianna riding, because I don’t have permission to show the other…
Read MoreThe other day, Michael and I looked through a couple of scrapbooks, and I was so impressed with some of the photos I’ve taken in the last couple of years, I just wanted show off share. First, photos of Christian and his mother making “hats.” Orecchiette, technically, but Christian and his siblings grew up calling…
Read MoreThis week, every single thing that makes life busy is converging upon one week: looming deadlines, baseball, piano, horseback, lessons, choir, two family visits, First Communion, a bake sale for the fifth grade, and to top it off, I am playing in a concert on Thursday, which means I have long, late rehearsals. So this…
Read MoreOn the docket for today: the obligatory results of my yearly kid portraiture. Julianna, in the meantime, gave me about two hundred shots of this…. …and this… ….so in the end we asked permission to use and share photos from the Children’s Miracle Network Glamourazzi event this summer (all photos taken by Creative Photo): But the…
Read MoreIt has been a long time since I’ve had a week (and weekend) as intense as the last has been. All good things, but intense. I’ve done almost no writing for the past week. So I’m giving myself a pass on being profound this morning. Instead I’ll share what we did this weekend in pictures…so…
Read MoreWe’ve had a DSLR for years, and although I know the theory behind aperture, ISO and shutter speed, there’s a big difference between theory and knowing how to use it. I’ve been wanting to take a class that would force me to play around, but who has time? This weekend I finally started the process. Here…
Read MoreThings I Don’t Want To Forget: Michael saying “I want to tuggle with you.” And then getting irritated because I repeat it that way. “No—no! I said, sssssstuggle!” Michael “nursing” (where did he learn to do that?) The way Julianna dissolves into giggles at the silliest pieces of nothing. The way every one of the children has…
Read More___1___ ___2___ ___3___ ___4___ ___5___ ___6___ ____7___ And this one speaks for itself:
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Kathleen M. Basi 