52 Weeks of Baby E and Me; Week 16

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain

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52 Weeks of Baby E and Me; Week 15

 If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it; want to change the world... there's nothing to it.

Willy Wonka

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52 Weeks of Baby E and Me; Week 14

Oh baby there ain't no mountain high enough,
Ain't no valley low enough,
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you babe

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52 Weeks of Baby E and Me; Week 13

What some people forgot to mention 

when we were children was that we need to make messes

in order to find out who we are

and why we are here.

~Anne Lamott

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52 Weeks of Baby E and me; Week 12

I'll love you forever

I'll like you for always 

As long as I'm living

My baby you'll be

Oh how sick you were this week... 

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52 Weeks of Baby E and Me; Week 11

"Never grow up. It's a trap" ~Peter Pan

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52 Weeks of Baby E and Me; Week 10

It's just the ghost of the past of what you want to be

                                     And the ghost of the past that you live in

Ghost of the future that you're so frightened of

So you look to your guardian...So you look... to your guardian angel

Some of them are here on earth...

Well some of them are way up there in heaven...

52 Weeks of Baby E and Me; Week 9

The history of our grandparents is remembered not with rose petals but in the laughter and tears of their children and their children’s children. It is into us that the lives of grandparents have gone. It is in us that their history becomes a future. ~Charles and Ann Morse

I know that often there will be times that little memories sneak out of my eyes
 and roll down my cheek.  
I miss you with an aching that I never knew existed.  

I'll always be your little girl. 

Love, 

Sissy

                                   

52 Weeks of Baby E and Me; Week 8

This week we had an ice storm in Nashville. 

That looks like snow, but it's actually all ice.  

It sleeted all day long the day before we took this picture.

The snow fell the next day and seems to be sticking around for a few days. 

"The future lies before you,

like a field of fallen snow. 

Be careful how you tread it, 

for every step will show."

~Unknown

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52 Weeks of Baby E and Me; Week 7

This week we were still in my hometown of Scottsboro.  One of my favorite places in town is tucked up in a little hole on the town square.  I love coming in for a quick lunch and of course an old fashioned milkshake.  This day E and me shared a milkshake.  He wasn't interested in anything except the cherry on top.  Too bad I had to share the milkshake with myself.  Oh darn.

Proverbs 22:6

 “Train up a child in the way he should go; 

even when he is old 

he will not depart from it.”

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52 Weeks of Baby E and Me; Week 6

Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.  ~ Les Brown

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52 weeks of Baby E and Me; Week 5

Week 5. 

What better place for our next portrait in our new hometown than here?

"What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters

compared to what lies within us.

and when you bring what is within 

out into the world, 

miracles happen." 

Henry David Thoreau

52 weeks of baby E and me; Week 4

Week 4 is a shot of us walking through the woods where I grew up in Little Coon,

or Stevenson, Alabama

We were visiting my dad, Popee, for the day 

 "Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth. The light shines down, and a bud breaks, branches give way before us, a book's leaves open, and our eyes look, look again. We are a grove, companions spared to be on earth at the same time. The trees--though not our kind--are kin, elder relatives standing to greet us."

(Kim Stafford)

52 Weeks of Baby E and Me; Week 3

This shot was taken in Scottsboro, Alabama where we were visiting 

because my grandfather's health was declining.

This spot reminds me that age is like the winter weather.  Slowly we are slipping away, while fighting

to hold onto our roots in a concrete jungle. 

“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.”
― Tupac Shakur

52 weeks of Baby E and Me; Week 1 and Two

This year I am embarking on a new photography journey.

One to capture memories and moments of my son and me. 

Just the two of us.

My goal is to capture one self portrait of us a week. 

Each picture will tell a story of our lives from that week.

Here goes nothing... 

Week one:  We wrap up Christmas and New Year's.  The decorations are still up and we are enjoying the lights from the Christmas tree at my Mom's, JuJu, house

"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it" Roald Dahl

Week 2 we had our first fire in the fireplace in Nashville. It was so cold, with temps down to 5, we stayed in most of those days and spent the day in our PJs and warmed up by the fire and/or with cuddles.

"Figure out what lights your fire.
Then chase the match."