City of Brotherly Love~ Philadelphia

Posted on April 30, 2008

For you Shari!

Posted on April 29, 2008

Coming from zee streets!

Posted on April 29, 2008

Here arhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gife some more South Street pix:

Celebrate Mama

Posted on April 29, 2008

See ya there!!!!

http://www.celebratemama.com/

Celebrate Mama

Posted on April 28, 2008

This Saturday, I will be in King of Prussia at the Celebrate Mama event.

Check it out!
Celebrate Mama

From their site:

Join us on May 3, 2008 at the Fairmount Athletic Club (499 S Henderson Rd. King of Prussia, PA 19406) for Celebrate Mama! Together with over 50 local vendors, we are offering great products, resources and information for women within the community. The event runs from 11am-3pm with goodie bags to the first 300 Moms (bags filled with MANY great sample items, coupons, and more,) raffles, a local chef featuring a fajita bar, “Mommy and Me” pictures (cost approximately 10-15.00 for sitting fee, also the chance to enter in a $5000 give-away!) make a card for Mom craft on-site, moon bounce for the kids, live music, and much more! We will also have a donation bin for all unused beauty supplies to support Career Wardrobe.

Reminder:
It’s not to late to contact me for gift certificates to give to your favorite Mama’s!!!!!!!!!!!!

IT’S A GIRL!!!!!!!!

Posted on April 27, 2008

Devon and Bob are having a girl!!!!!!!!

We are going to have a NIECE! I knew it all along! I’ve been calling her a girl since day one:) I love it!

Here are some pix from the BBQ last night!

Cake unvieling:

Everybody hanging out:

The boys played cards….

And the cousins tired each other out. Devon- Stretch is STILL sleeping, what about Zoe?

Mommy’s Light 5k run

Posted on April 27, 2008

Yesterday JP and I, my sister and her husband all woke up bright and early and headed to Chester Springs for the Mommy’s Light 5k run and walk.

As most of you know, we lost my mom in 2003 to breast cancer. In the fall of 2003, my sister, Jen and I joined Mommy’s Light as an on-going tribute to mom. Several times a year we provide a wish-granting type of service to the families we serve (same ones each year) to help them cultivate and continue valued family traditions they once did with their late mother. In addition to our family visits, we try to pick one or two events to volunteer at. We love doing the walk because the turn-out is fabulous. Every Mommy’s Light event is a mixture of remembrance and celebration, which can cause spontaneous tears at times:)

Here are some photos from yesterday! I had some of all of us working our tables but my digital card reader decided to eat them.

True Street Photography

Posted on April 27, 2008

I took this photo last week on South Street in Philadelphia.

What do you think?

Check it out!

Posted on April 25, 2008

All my prints are now hanging at the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (hi JoAnn!) and they look awesome! The black and whites are in the early childhood office (my department), and until this week, the walls were completely blank.

Everybody at work has been really supportive and excited to have the photos hanging which is such a compliment.

I have some neat things cooking this week, look for an update soon!

Why get Get Professional Photos of Your Children?

Posted on April 24, 2008

I saw this in pinkletoes‘ blog and thought it was worth sharing!

Get Professional Photos of Your Children

I’ve never forgotten an invaluable piece of advice that I heard from an older friend right after my first child was born. She told me, “One of my greatest regrets about my children’s childhoods was that I didn’t have more professional pictures taken.”“You didn’t take many pictures?” I asked.“I took tons of pictures,” she said, “but the fact is, professional photographs are so much better than even the best snapshots.”I absolutely agree—professional photos are better. And keeping her advice in mind, ever since my daughters were born, I’ve been zealous about getting their photos taken professionally at least once a year. While it’s a lot of fun (and also a pain) to take pictures myself, it’s terrific to have some pictures that are truly excellent. These photos don’t take the place of the on-the-spot pictures that I take myself—I still take scads of photos at birthday parties, first days of school, on the slide, with a popsicle—but these pictures memorialize my children’s childhoods in a different way.

Plus they make great family gifts. I can never figure out a good present for the grandparents and great-grandparents, but they always love to get a really great photograph—especially the relatives who don’t often get a chance to see the girls in person.

Also, research shows that one way to boost your happiness is to reflect on happy times, and looking at photographs helps keep memories more vivid.

It’s a splurge, of course. Professional photos aren’t cheap.

However, I figure that the money I spend on these photographs will strengthen family bonds, enhance happy memories, and capture the fleeting moments of childhood. They give me more pleasure than practically any other purchases that I make. That strikes me as pretty good happiness bang for the buck.

A friend’s family had another great photography tradition. For her whole life, at every milestone, her parents took a picture of her and her brother sitting exactly the same way on their front stoop. It’s fascinating to see them change through the years. Along the same lines, the artist Nicholas Nixon took a photograph of his wife and her three sisters once a year for 33 years. The collection of these photographs, The Brown Sisters, is riveting.

Getting professional photos take is a great example of the tiresome fact that happiness takes thought and effort. These photographs are easy to arrange; in the scheme of things, not terribly expensive; contribute greatly to our family happiness—and yet it probably never would have occurred to me to do it if my friend hadn’t suggested it.

http://simplystated.realsimple.com/life/2008/03/unforgettable-a.html

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