Wow, what a whirlwind few weeks. My babies left to go on a 3 1/2 week adventure up the west coast with their Granparents in their RV. Yes, that’s not a typo – almost 4 weeks. I miss them tons. It’s strange not having them here with me each day. :( A big part of my inspiration has left and that’s hard on this momma. But I’m keeping busy with the overwhelming number of house projects/to do’s we have on our list. So, when I was reviewing the theme for this week’s project 26 my heart fell a little. Why? Because my kids ‘color my world’ and they aren’t here with me. My world is muted right now without them. So I brainstormed and thought and finally found some ‘color in my world’. Some I couldn’t photograph – like me and my husband. No, not in that way. I just didn’t have the time to photograph us together. That’s the one thing that’s been wonderful about Jeff and I being ‘childless’ right now – we’re completely dating again. We can have uninterrupted conversations at dinner. There’s time to be silly, light-hearted, work on projects together, have quiet talks where we can stare into each others eyes- then burst out laughing, and reconnect like we should. In that sense it’s been amazing. I’m trying to take advantage of the positives. As I’m trying to organize I keep running across Brielle’s art. She’d be happy with just a pile of paper and drawing tools. I melt every time I go through a stack of things and find her sweet work. FaceTiming and having grandma text pictures of the kids to me each day has been a treat. In that sense there still ‘color IN my world’.
Please continue through the circle – one of my favorite photographers is up next. Valeria Spring of The Red Balloon Photography – pure inspiration!
This weeks project was so fun to work on. My kids just left on an exciting road trip for 4 weeks (that’s right, it’s not a typo – 4 weeks). Yeah, my heart hurts. I had a hard time agreeing to the trip since it’s so long away. But finally I gave in…sad as that made me. But I’m trying to think of the fun they’ll have and the memories they’re making. I just can’t wait to have them in my arms again. Anyway, we squeezed this shoot in just before they left. They had a ball doing this. We were getting chased by bees (um, lots and lots of them) and the ants were loving us…we didn’t reciprocate the love. So we worked quickly on this shoot an the kids helped with ideas and set up every step of the way. There are so many more pictures to go through but I’m already late in getting this post up so I’ll start with these dozen and maybe add more later. Don’t forget to go around the circle (we’re all late in posting so some links might now work right away) and check out what some of the other talented ladies in our group posted today. 
These are beautiful as usual Kara!
by Kara
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