I loved the old house. I didn't think we needed to move. But he was insistent. The kids needed a yard, and woods, to play in. (I thought, what four month old needs these things?) I knew of a house I liked, with a nice big flat yard, and they were selling. We asked to see it. The rest is history.
Never could I have envisioned that we'd be giving the kids backyard childhood utopia.
They have no idea now. I hope that some day they do. How few kids have such an expanse to play on? How few kids have a zip-line, their very own zip-line, in their backyard? How few kids have the most rocking awesome tree house in their back yard? I assume they think this is ordinary. I hope some day they realize just how fortunate they are for these amazing things they've had in their childhood.
This day, this crazy warm day in January, they discovered how to climb up the zip-line platform themselves to get on the carriage themselves. They discovered how they could team work to get the carriage back up, so they didn't need one of us to help them use it. This means a LOT more zip-line play time.
I couldn't resist coming out to photograph it. I also shot video and put it all together here in this post, if you missed it. But I wanted to show just the photos, as well.
When I first saw that they'd drawn all over the swing set with chalk, my insides balked. I schooled my face not to betray the "oh YIKES" to them, but my initial reaction was one of "oh great, now we'll have to try to get that off... how will we do that... ugg, guys, ugg!!!" However, as time went on, and I found the hearts she drew on the side, my own heart melted. I find the chalk charming and such a picture of THEM. And truly, what does it matter? It is THEIR swing set any way. Let them do with it as they please. The chalk harms nothing, just as the mud they used to draw on it last summer harmed nothing. Motherhood lessons - I'm still learning them every single day. I'm so thankful I didn't freak out on them, and squelch this creativity.
I shot these with my Nikon D800
Nikon 85mm f1.8
Nikon 50mm 1.4D
Sigma 30mm f1.4
Never could I have envisioned that we'd be giving the kids backyard childhood utopia.
They have no idea now. I hope that some day they do. How few kids have such an expanse to play on? How few kids have a zip-line, their very own zip-line, in their backyard? How few kids have the most rocking awesome tree house in their back yard? I assume they think this is ordinary. I hope some day they realize just how fortunate they are for these amazing things they've had in their childhood.
This day, this crazy warm day in January, they discovered how to climb up the zip-line platform themselves to get on the carriage themselves. They discovered how they could team work to get the carriage back up, so they didn't need one of us to help them use it. This means a LOT more zip-line play time.
I couldn't resist coming out to photograph it. I also shot video and put it all together here in this post, if you missed it. But I wanted to show just the photos, as well.
When I first saw that they'd drawn all over the swing set with chalk, my insides balked. I schooled my face not to betray the "oh YIKES" to them, but my initial reaction was one of "oh great, now we'll have to try to get that off... how will we do that... ugg, guys, ugg!!!" However, as time went on, and I found the hearts she drew on the side, my own heart melted. I find the chalk charming and such a picture of THEM. And truly, what does it matter? It is THEIR swing set any way. Let them do with it as they please. The chalk harms nothing, just as the mud they used to draw on it last summer harmed nothing. Motherhood lessons - I'm still learning them every single day. I'm so thankful I didn't freak out on them, and squelch this creativity.
I shot these with my Nikon D800
Nikon 85mm f1.8
Nikon 50mm 1.4D
Sigma 30mm f1.4