Danielle Luc Photography

I haven’t spent many saturdays (or weekends at all) for that matter with my kids since before school let out last spring.  Yesterday (saturday) I spent the morning with the Brown’s (see abby and greg’s wedding below) at the Alexa Brown Memorial 5K in Clyde.  I love when I get to spend time with them and their family and friends – they make me feel good about who I am and lift me up.  They are a great example of why we are on this earth.  I came home and spent the afternoon with my kiddos – Domino Rally was on tap for a few hours (and now that they are all over the house, I suppose today, too). 

Talking with a photographer friend of mine the other day about some frustrations and she directed me to a project she and others have been working on and I kind of had a “duh” moment – when was the last time I just took photographs of my kids being kids? Just playing, and “doing” and “being”?  So I did. I used to, and got caught up in all the other stuff I’m doing and I havent in forever.  I will treasure these and vow to do it more often.  These are how I remember my saturday afternoons as a kid.

I was trying to build a lengthly domino trail for Evan and I kept knocking it down (they don’t put lens IS in dominos, so my lack of steadiness did not get the job done!) and the conversation was as follows:

Me: Evan, I’m sorry. I just cannot get it to balance.

Evan: Mom, here. Read the directions.

Well, that’s the answer when you’re four.

Cant get life to balance? Read the directions. 

Not the paper directions, but listen to a friend, your instincts, get back to basics.  Keep the dominoes up in every aspect – work, home, family, personal time.  When one falls down, it kinda’ makes everything else lose it’s stability.

xo

dani