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Babies are beautiful – from the first glance at birth, we’re captivated. Their exquisite little features render us helpless and we fall head over heels, secretly thinking that whilst other babies are a little odd, in an angry-old-man-looking manner, somehow you have the most gorgeous looking little being on the face of the earth. …
Despite everything you know, everything you’ve read, if you’ve witnessed your precious child suffer a febrile convulsion, fevers are terrifying experiences. When Jensen Indiana was ten months old, just a few days after Christmas, he had what we assumed was a miserable cold and he fell asleep as normal, lay under the twinkly fairy lights…
I think it’s the teacher in me that misses it all now. Paying it forward, seeing faces light up when they develop a skill or have an “aha” moment. I taught my very first photography retreat last year [and still have to blog it – but I’ll get around to that this week, I promise] and…
Oooops. This photo makes me laugh every time I see it. Christmas dinner 2014, the very first one I’ve cooked by myself, and he dumped salt accidentally over the things he picked. Poor Lyoto. Just look at the shame on that face. Aww.
According to Juliet, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. I never cared much for the romance of roses. That is, until they actually did come to me under another name – Beards and Daisies. You see, I grew up spending Summer Sunday afternoons surrounded by exquisite, organically homegrown blooms cultivated…
I’m sure I’ve complained before that the mister, despite being a software engineer for IBM, loves to see me struggling learning about the nuts and bolts of blogging as opposed to him just doing things for me, and so I’ve been on quite a steep learning curve over the past two years. I work in…