Daily Blogging?...Solution!

Johngideon.

Disney.

2006...exactly six weeks after Montgomery was born.

I wasn't in search of a crazy experience;

we'd simply booked Disney a year in advance...

...but it only takes 9 months to cook a lil' baby!  :-)

That look on his face (complete with spit bubble)

made all the traveling-with-newborn challenges worth it.

So...what's with this photo anyway? Let's take the long road to the answer...

To provide an update on progress thus far on my 2011 daily blogging fun challenge for myself, I must share the following: I have found that I really enjoy the reflective pause of life that (attempted) daily blogging provides requires. However, I have also found that oftentimes the realities of my predictable day-to-day-mother-of-five-unpredictability do not provide the quantitative life space necessary for true qualitative reflective blogging...especially when I desire to share so much because I feel (most days) that everyday life is wonderfully interesting and varied and and somehow incomprehensibly strangely joyously beautiful.

So, what to do? 

Aha...the solution makes me smile!

I have been wishing lately that I had uncovered the joys of blogging many years ago when my oldest children were small. I wish I had kept such an unfolding record of their delightful discoverings of the world around them to enjoy with them in the years we share now and the sharing years to come. While I don't have the narrative, I do have so many beautiful photographs...of so many beautiful smiles, and frowns, and messes, and marvels, and my heart routinely floods with reminiscent joy and wonder every time I view any of them.

This is too much delight for one heart to hold alone. Journey with me, please, as I enjoy posting "blasts" a few times per week...just the odd here-and-there photographs that tell bits and pieces of our story from before...in random years...at random times. While these may indeed be blasts from our past, the word blast just doesn't quite reflect my heartjoy in the remembering...but I just can't think of the right word to use at the moment (or, for that matter, for the past two weeks of moments that this idea has been marinating). When the word unmistakably settles itself in my mind, that's what I'll call these posts of previousness. In the meantime, I hope you'll enjoy (as much as I know I shall) the frequently occasional blasts from our past that show up here....from time to time...randomly.

Much Love. Take Care.