To celebrate Penny’s 8th birthday we hosted a cooking party with chef Wendi James of Rutabaga Sweets. The menu included handmade cheese ravioli, fresh tomato sauce and garlic bread. The kids were attentive and focused and created some delicious food! Penny loves to cook, what a treat it was to share this with her friends. 
Tagged: birthday party, canon photography, childhood, cooking, cooking class, photography
Jesus said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
– 1 Corinthians 11:24
Tagged: childhood, photography, storytelling photography
March 27, 2007
You know the feeling you get when you wake up and realize it is the weekend? Or Christmas day? When you think of the upcoming vacation or party or event that you’ve been planning? When you suddenly remember that your going to Italy in a week? Well that is how I feel every time I look at Lucas.
Tagged: birthday, childhood, family photography, photography
“And to all of the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.”
– Hillary Clinton
“I know we have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling, but some day, someone will, and hopefully sooner than we might think right now.”
– Hillary Clinton
Tagged: Election 2016, girl power, girls, Hillary Clinton, women
Tagged: childhood, kindergarten, school
Lucas’ first day at LANK (Lake Anne Nursery Kindergarten)
September 11, 2009
Tagged: Lake Anne Nursery Kindergarten, LANK, pre-school, Reston
We celebrate Penny’s seventh birthday with a soccer party at Dulles Sportsplex. Friends from pre-school, friends from Floris, girls, boys, older brothers, younger brother competitively play soccer and Sharks and Minnows in the most non-competitive way possible. Riley scores four goals on Lucas because “he is going easy on her”, Cody is untouchable, Brady and Zachary are the dynamic duo, Mikayla is determined to tag Penny as the last minnow, Oliver plays his hardest undeterred by the fact that he is the smallest and in between there are cartwheels, hand stands and smiles.
Tagged: birthday, Dulles Sportsplex, soccer
A child bears so much more than just their fate. A child is the holder of promise, deliverer of dreams, benefactor of grace. Each child is a miracle given. Today we bless Kiefer for the prayer he has fulfilled in the faith that will be his Shepherd.
“This is the day the Lord hath made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
– Psalm 118:24
I had three teacher conferences this year, told at each one where my son was challenged or challenging. It was sobering, my son who has always been complimented on his self-control, manners and humor now being scrutinized for all of the above. I rained down on him, my disappointment and frustration falling in thick sheets. I doled out punishment and new expectations. Lucas, meekly, accepted it all.
I ask Lucas to do ten things a day, he does all ten without question or hesitation. He makes me laugh out loud; sometimes I am laughing at him, so is he. He relents when I demand. And he gives the warmest, hardest, sweetest hugs.
I couldn’t normalize what I was told and what I know to be true.
Tagged: basketball, birthday, childhood, nine
