Dealing with:
moody weather, messy-again kitchens, occasional-nap-fighting-toddler, growing-taller-preschooler. Dealing with scattered-blocks-on-the-floor, discarded-tangerine-peels-on-the-table, half-a-dozen-milky-murky-sippy-cups-adorning-the-counter, and a camera-with-over-flowing-photos. Dealing with a clean-crumpled-ball-of-laundry-in-dryer, grimy-glass-table-finger-prints, little-girl-hairbows-and-bangles-on the-floor.
Reading:
Painted Hands by Jennifer Zobair, The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep (see aforementioned occasional-nap-fighting-toddler above) by Dr. Harvey Karp, and Julie & Julie: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell. Lately Z has been enjoying The Apple Tree by Mariam Al-Kalby. I leave books all around the table and house which I admit can look messy, but that’s the only way I get to read. I also tend to skim and I re-read books a lot.
Sharing a a few images from this week.
paint spattered cream leggings…oh well.
Throwing playdough; love the way the sunlight caught all her flyaway hair.
The photos I love taking of my children aren’t the ones in which they are looking at cameras, but rather the ones in which they are focusing on something else (like playdough above), or just lost in their childhood worlds, so when the camera does click, it’s simply capturing a real moment of that day. Natural un-posey images are the ones that talk to me most.
And a favorite Quran Ayah below:
“Do they not see the birds above them with wings outspread and [sometimes] folded in? None holds them [aloft] except the Most Merciful. Indeed He is, of all things, Seeing.” (Quran 67:19)
Doodling Through Life 