Slurping Life

SOOC Saturday ~ Photographs or Words

Words tease, elude and mesmerize all in the same moment.

I haven't felt the gift of words for some time. I've felt tormented and blessed all in the same instant,

but words have been running from me. My heart feels, but my mouth is mute; my fingers still.

So communication with photographs has been the obvious choice...

...except last night I searched for images on my CF cards. There were none.

I searched my iMac for recent images. There were none.

Funny...

...the images were vivid in my mind and, most happily, in my heart.

I have found myself living life rather than photographing it.

Penning the journey whereby a family seemingly disintegrates due to extreme, emotional special needs

and all hearts are stomped into mush before being solidified by love is (at present for me) indescribable.

So for now, I am not so much photographing life as living it.

And life is good...until it gets un-good again and then...it is still good as long as we love.

Share anything from your heart...words, photographs...either or...maybe both...

...because life is short and precious and...

a gift.

SOOC Saturday [and Sunday] or

SOOH (straight out of heart...sounds good, yes?)

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After reading some comments I realize my thoughts may be read as though sadness prevails...quite the opposite. Our family is thriving happily, and I have found myself more focused on being in the moments rather than photographing them.

Also, while adjusting to new glasses, I can't see a thing clearly and that makes photography a challenge. Word is the adjustment will take two weeks. Driving.Me.Bonkers.

 

 

SOOC Saturday ~ Irrelevant to Dirty Laundry

I Wanna Crawl I Wanna Crawl NOW! from Melody S on Vimeo

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Laundry Facts You Do Not Really Care About

One 15 year old boy, who has been away for nearly eight months, brings home 27.5 months worth of dirty laundry.

One 12.5 year old boy, who has been at camp for one week, brings home 13.75 weeks worth of dirty laundry.

One 13 year old (in a month) boy, who was the only child at home for a few days, has no clean clothing because his mom forgot about laundry during the past week.

A certain husband may be wearing dirty underwear.

A certain woman may not be wearing any underwear.

I may be overloading the washing machine in an attempt to finish laundry.

You may have already clicked out of this post.

If you did not, we're hoping you will share a SOOC image.

My SOOC image (video) is irrelevant to laundry; however,

video of a baby with chubby legs who wants to crawl and has not mastered it is way cuter than shots of dirty laundry.

SOOC Saturday [and Sunday]

(Very short SOOC video permitted this week because, well, I posted one.)

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Happy, happy weekend to you.

Yes, it is the three of them again plus baby most days,

and our house is a wild, happy place which explains why this post is off-the-wall.

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SOOC Saturday ~ Caption This

...but note you do not win anything for doing so.

What is your caption for this image of my three youngest boys?

The photograph was taken September 2006 while on a tractor-pulled wagon ride to the apple orchard.

Lee on the left;

Wil, center, in hard casts up to his knees after one of his ump-teen surgeries...it was fun;

Mac on the right.

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Current family events...

Sunday - Drop Wil off at an awesome camp

Wednesday - Pick Lee up from seven and one-half months of residential treatment

All the while - Deal with a disgruntled Mac because nothing special is happening for him. His expression this weekend is pretty much like the one up there, except on a chiseled teen boy face.

Please share this SOOC Saturday [and Sunday].

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pssst...Thank you for your support through comments and emails during these past months.

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SOOC Saturday ~ Happy Seedless Watermelon Fourth of July Weekend

It is just not right to have a watermelon with no big, black seeds. I can only find seedless, again.

How are we suppose to have a watermelon seed spittin' contest, y'all?

Have a fun, safe weekend.

SOOC Saturday [and Sunday]

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SOOC Saturday ~ Absurd

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life

trying to figure out how things "really are,"

when all the time they weren't.

~~Hugh Prather

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"Please, don't do that anymore," she whispered to herself.

SOOC Saturday [and Sunday]

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