Soaring and Stillness: Life with the Chickadees

The view from the school room this evening O contemplate the heavens! When as the vein-drawn day dies pale,   In every season, every place, gaze through their every veil?  With love that has not speech for need!  Beneath their solemn beauty is a mystery infinite:  If winter hue them like a pall, or if the summer night  Fantasy them starre brede. -Victor Hugo  

In the days before Little Bit joined our world, I was the queen  of moment capturing, printing, dating and filing. The pre-digital camera days were full of snapping shots on 800 speed film with our 35mm Minolta from every angle.  As soon as the last image was taken I'd rush out to the Exchange  we were military during those years  and immediately have the film developed. When it returned, I'd promptly pick it up and meticulously caption and date the back of each picture, which would then be lovingly and immediately put into the next slot in the book.  If I had a title for those years, it would be, "I dreamed of scrapping"...mostly because I planned on creating masterpieces with the images as soon as my Grace Girl went to school for a few hours a day. Ha Ha Ha....this is me laughing at my decade ago self. I had such big dreams. In late 2003 all of the organizational photo beauty ended. It mimicked those scenes in the movies where the main chara...

I've been quiet for the last month, mostly due to the fact that the holiday and travel in addition to school, dance, and real life was pretty much all I could handle. I'm working on getting back into the swing of things and figured when Sara needed an off day I'd jump back into blogging. Yep, that's how all the wildly overachieving kids do it...guest posting on GitzenGirl . Wink. I plan on being much more regular. It's good for the spirit, and reminds me that I'm something other than a mother and wife and homeschooler... Sparkle. Such a simple word; it brings to mind images of stars in the night sky, engagement rings, and bright, wonder-filled eyes. Sparkle. I’m taking liberties and off the cuff calling it a scientific phenomenon that was witnessed and documented copiously with digital images. Sparkle. It is what five humans are capable of doing when put together in a cozy condo for four glorious days. We did all of the “usual” stuff...trips to Sonic for Happ...