So I'm a big believer in perspective-shifting and such-forth. It gets tricky sometimes when life is hard and some things are really sticky-back-ick-stuck and other areas are actually quite joy-full. It's hard to tell the whole story for what it is without seeming like I'm on some kind of manic roller coaster. That's part of why I like this bloggy and why I like photo-documenting. Although, I am also torn between just pure savoring. For example, last night I went out and picked carrots and peas from our garden, brought them in to the kids, and then they devoured them in one sitting (it wasn't much; modest garden this year). Anyway, I thought about taking some picture to capture a moment of that exulted feeling of bringing in food I planted with my own hands and feeding it to the happy and waiting mouths of my children. But how can a photo accomplish that grand feeling pared down to the scale of a small bowl of carrots and peas. How could it capture the smell? The victory of mostly un-green shoulders of the carrots (I'm getting better at this small time farmer thing! woo!)? So I left that one uncaptured. But her are some joyful moments from the last week I did capture:
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| Lots of letters and notes written |
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| Cannoli cupcakes entirely from scratch. |
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| Nerding out at a conference about teaching the humanities and getting in some personal study time. |
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| Getting a chance to dress up and be all pregnant and feel cute. |
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| Finding a lone patch of irreverent clover on an otherwise perfectly manicured field and sitting there to eat my healthy dinner of frozen yogurt. |
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| Taking Women's World Cup selfies after the third goal was scored early in the first half. |
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| Taking shocked selfies when the fourth goal was scored while we were selfie-ing for three goals. |
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| Showing off our silly faces and face paint! |
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