Photographic Expressions

Yesterday I drove up to visit mom as she put the finishing touches on her classroom. Thirty years of teaching behind her and she still loves to show off her room. I can’t count how many times I have seen the bulletin board featuring the reading tree with animals balancing on branches with books in their hand, paw, hoof. Every year it’s the same but I can’t miss the excitement in her eye and how proud she is to have physically changed classrooms (again) and how she miraculously got it all set back up in the nick of time. I won’t interject here and say that she pesters the janitors into letting her into the school several weeks prior to school starting, we’ll just forgot that ever happened, right?

After saying for the umpteenth time that the room looked fabulous, your students are going to love it, No I don’t think it’s cluttered; we made our way to the office to turn back in the keys and to scram. Oh but it wasn’t going to be that easy, of course not! So after mom introduced her ‘oldest’ (I’m not ancient!) daughter to the new principal, the head janitor (poor soul that she pestered) and the other secretary; mom informs me that the secretary’s son was also married around the same time that I was. And before I knew it, it happened. The next statement fell out of her mouth like anvils, making potted marks on the floor as they made contact. She turned to look at me and asked, “And guess what she has?”
Without hesitation and with a sigh escaping my lips because I failed as a daughter; I responded, “A grandchild.”
“Yes!,” exclaimed my mom proud that I, her oldest but not ancient daughter, got the answer right.
Feeling down but not out I retorted, ” But you have two grandchildren.” (a word that she uses and not something I call her)
That’s when she gave up, threw her hands in the air and admitted in defeat that Yes, she has two grandchildren but they have tails and 4 legs, so evidently those don’t count.

Though Josh and I don’t have it marked on the calendar as to when babies will be on the brain, we have nothing but furbabies on the brain right now. And how can you resist these cute faces? We certainly have our hands full at the moment.

~C

Our first furbaby, Levi

Our spunky furbaby, Lucy

Lucy is always following Levi, taking cues from him and of course to steal what latest treasure he found. Just like brother and sister.

Such a funny collage of out of focus Lucy. She loves to get superclose to the camera. Love how I managed to capture the ‘Lucy pose’ with her head cocked to the side and one paw bent.

Levi at his finest, going where ever his nose takes him and Lucy not far behind.