May....Where Did You Go?

 

This was the beginning of a post I started back on May 1... 

"There is no perfect or better way...there is only today, exactly as it is.  I appreciate the simplicity of today...sitting by an open window while the rain falls, the wind blowing in drops that land on my shoulder.  I can feel everything beginning to ever so slowly shift.  Becoming the change I have been both anticipating and dreading.  I want to stop time for a little while.  Enjoy this little slice of life for a bit longer, before it is gone. But, change is coming, ready or not.  I can't stop it, can't even slow it down, I am going to focus on every little moment May brings."

Now already into June, I realize that May was so much, so full of breath-taking moments. 

heart-happy, high moments....


(blurry and out of focus...but still one of my favorite because of that grin)
 

 

We are so proud of this guy! He attempted so many things that weren't easy. He failed some times, by traditional definitions, but he never quit..and here he is.  You may not be able to see it, but that look?  That look is pride, which means more to me than that standard diploma he just walked away with. We love him so deeply and completely for who he is. Just as he is. His gifts are plenty...He reminds me every day that life is so beautiful and hard and so good.

"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."

  Sigmund Freud
 

 stinging tears of loss moments....

(she wasn't the prettiest thing to look at, but we loved her.)

 

Beautiful moments...

Mother's Day moments....

(we don't do "posed", real life is always so much better)



Just Because moments....


Sister and Brother moments...





Naked is always the right choice moments...(ha!  well for some of us!)


Lady Bug moments...


Thank you, May!