mamalibrarian » Uncategorized http://mamalibrarian.com Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:43:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 What She Sees – The Market http://mamalibrarian.com/2011/03/what-she-sees-the-market/ http://mamalibrarian.com/2011/03/what-she-sees-the-market/#comments Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:35:07 +0000 handk http://mamalibrarian.com/?p=941 Continue reading →]]>
I can’t remember having access to a camera when I was a kid. I imagine that film was too expensive, developing, etc.. You couldn’t have kids just wandering around taking pictures of the pavement and their stuffed animals. So it is remarkable to be able to give the kids the digital camera or iPod and let them take pictures of whatever they see. C. took these last weekend at the Farmer’s Market. I love them, because they are what she sees.
Take a look at the rest of her set here.

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When my brother and I were kids, I can remember painting these plastic, Charlie Brown Christmas ornaments with him. My mother still has them. When you look at the ornaments together, mine and his, you can see our age difference of 2 1/2 years. I can remember not wanting him to be upset that his painting was not as neat as mine. We did so many things like that together as kids. We laugh at the difference in those ornaments every Christmas.
I took this picture of C and E painting ornaments. It reminded me of painting those Charlie Brown ornaments with my brother. The concentration, the Christmas excitement, the kid times you remember later.

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Why didn’t we take a picture? It is good to laugh and laugh!

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An afternoon building this masterpiece with the kids was just what we needed to break up a hectic week.

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Chance mama meetups after a long, hard day are a nice surprise.

Day 9
I am grateful for the 30 Days of Gratitude. I want to look back on it next year and be inspired to do it again. I want to look back it in 5 years and think about how things change. I want to look back on it in 10 years and be amazed at how the kids have grown. I want to remember to be grateful.

Day 8

What kind of librarian would I be, if I wasn’t grateful for books? I get great comfort from stacks of books on my bedside table. Even if I don’t have much time some days, the sight of the stack is enough to remind me of one of my great loves-reading.

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Blankie Gratitude

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The last part of this year seems to be about making some choices-job choices, middle school choices, family choices. They have been hard things for me to think about. I agonized over some of them. At the time, it seemed torturous.
As the distance from these decisions has gotten greater, I have realized how privileged I am to even have all these choices. They are “good” problems to have. I know that I am lucky, privileged, fortunate.

*The picture has nothing to do with this. I took it this afternoon while the girls were painting ornaments.

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Sparkly lights, a wonderful choir teacher, Mr. T., and happy, tired kiddos.

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Today I took dragged H. to get a haircut at Birds. The guy who cut it always cuts it with a little too much zeal, no matter what we say to him. H. was stoic throughout, wondering if I would feel so bad that he could bargain not getting another haircut for 3 months.
I noticed another mother waiting with her sullen looking teen. She was obviously still calling the shots also, because she consulted with them about which stylist, negotiating length, etc..
After the haircut, we went to Terra Toys to pick out something for C. and E. for Christmas. H. still wanted to look at some toys, but was torn about whether he really wanted any of them anymore. There was obviously a little internal struggle going on. It gave me pause and hurt just a bit to think of him not wanting toys. It was just a little moment of time, where I felt how both young and old H. is right now.
A happy end though, H. and I were starving from our errands, so went over to Conan’s and shared a pizza. He played video games, while I read the Chronicle. Things were once again righted for us both.

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This year brought us baby S. I drove down to be there for her birth. I pressed my ear against the hospital room door so that I could hear her being born. It is a joy to watch you grow, baby S.

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