South Padre is everything you’d expect from a touristy beach town. Lots of brightly colored souvior shops with kitschy items that both kids loved, tiny bathing suits, funny (and risqué) T-shirt’s, and giant fish complete neon and flashing lights.
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How To: Christmas Light Photography
My kids got tired of playing with the Christmas lights way before I was tired of taking photos.
Graham and the Four Letter Word
And I would love to know how others deal with this in the pit of the night when you worry they might not go to college or find someone who really loves them because they were swearing like sailors as toddlers.
Sunset
To me, it was just a sunset, not a particularly pretty one, nothing spectacular, just day slowly moving into night. But to him it was photograph worthy, to be oohed and aahed over, to be recorded and remembered as being spectacular.
London & Broccoli
I'd just finished asking him not to do the thing he'd done with the green beans a few months ago.
Grasshopper
Several feet away on the seawall, in the path of the oncoming tide, sat a bright green grasshopper
Thoughts For My Children
The best parts of me, the worthwhile bits, anything that's good comes from them.
Birth
It’s hard to find a place to start, a moment in which to pinpoint the change; the feeling of going from pregnant me to mother, the moment in which my son went from being a part of me to being a person in his own right.