Picture of the Day #5

This is his birthday crown and his blanket. And yes he did this on his own. So cute!!

Saying Goodbye

Today I said goodbye to my son. Only for 5 days but it seems much longer. I drove him and my mother to the airport this morning and Mason looked so cute pulling his little suitcase behind him. He wanted to be like Grandma and I tried not to think about how it would feel when I had to to leave him at the security gate.

He ended up taking my hand and he gave me a kissing hand, it's from one of his favorite books. It is about a mother and son raccoon walking to take the son to school. The raccoon mother tells her son about the kissing hand. Where you place a kiss on the palm of your hand and whenever your lonely of sad you can press your palm to your cheek and say (as Mason put it) Mason loves you, Mason loves you. I started crying at that point.

As my mother told me when I was pregnant, that the love of a child is a love like you have never known, I realize that it is true. I miss him. I him so much right now.

Picture of the Day #4

Discoveries

I found this small glass the other day when I was outside my house with my son trying to make a little garden. We had dug up the earth and made some holes for the flowers, when all of a sudden this bottle came into view.

It was compacted with dirt but it seemed so delicate. I have no idea how long this bottle has lived under ground. I know that this house has been here for a long time, but the driveway was just redone last year. Either way I have taken a shining to this small glass bottle and it now keeps one of my house plants company.

I also spent a great Saturday with my son. Lego's dominated the activities today. We made houses and cars and dogs, and even a horse. But most of all we made some memories and nothing can beat that.

This Moment

A moment this week I want to remember:

Childhood Friendships

Idea from Soulemama

Kite Flying

Spring is quickly becoming my favorite season. I think last year I was so caught up in how I was going to get a job and going to find a place to live that I never really appreciated it. Now, experiencing it again after my first cold winter, makes me love it all the more. To have the sun shine, and the flowers blossom and seeing all the tree's start to bloom. It's wonderful.

Mason and I went kite flying today. It was a perfect day and we had a blast.

This is Mason holding the kite all by himself, sadly the kite came down pretty quickly after this picture but Mason is learning fast.

Lost Photos

Two weeks ago I made a very large mistake. I mistook a file and tried to delete it, this file ended up being my hard drive and I deleted everything on my computer including all my photos and all my music. I thought I had backed these up on Mozy.com but when the Genius Bar at Apple took a look they said I had only backed up the programs, not the files inside. Needless to say I cried all the way back to work that day. I did purchase a Data Recovery disk and I was able to save about 60% of my photos. Most of which were taken in the last year. I lost almost all of my son's baby pictures.

I took for granted that my pictures would be safe. I lesson learned the hard way. I have since purchased a external hard drive and everything is backed up automatically now. I feel a little more at ease and I am trying to move on and focus on taking as many pictures as I can to make up for the ones I lost.

Because every second with my son is precious.