Seeing The Everyday
I stumbled upon a magazine by the above name- “seeing the everyday“, devoted to seeing the prosiacs of life.
I love this message!! I’ve always thought that if we stop and look, we can find beauty and joy in the daily minutia of our lives. Which is why I decided to take the camera on our morning walk yesterday…to capture the beauty.
I love the look of my oldest daughter with orange plastic sunglasses and shoes on the wrong feet! I loved that she stopped at every corner to do her “exercises”; and the sweet moment of her showing a toy squeaky mouse to her baby sister.
This is the stuff that I will remember and miss when they are all grown and I have all the free/quiet time I could possibly want. I may or may not remember the times we dressed them up fancy and took their pictures, but I do want to remember that:
- when my son was 3 he would stop at every fire hydrant on our way to twist the top bolt
- that my middle daughter liked to exercise at every corner
- that my youngest gives the sweetest smiles upon waking each morning
What are some of the beauties of your everyday life?
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Interesting that I have been thinking a lot about this lately. I need to be better about capturing moments not just with the camera (because I know that is unrealistic for me right now) but written down.
I love that my oldest cannot go to bed without family prayer. My second born loves to draw and write and can do it for hours. My third loves to test the limits with everything and that he has my love of the “night life,” if he could he would stay up past 10pm every night and be happy while doing it.
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:30 pm
For years, I have written nightly in a gratitude journal. I used make an annual ritual of choosing my favorite datebook and pen, but now I use an iphone app and export it to a word document (so not as organic but cool in a different way). I find it important to reflect daily on all of the little things, because life really is all about the little things!
I’m pretty sure I smelled spring yesterday just a little bit. The apricot blossoms on the tree in the backyard. I love the way my daughter holds a board book and open it with her little thumbs, closes the book and finds a new random page. Clean sheets. Today my son said, “you can imagine everything.” the smell of the house when something tasty is cooking… particularly if I am able to leave and return to a yum-smelling house. The fat water drops on bare tree branches, especially our red maples, and the reflection in each of those water drops if you look really closely. Sweeping (actually seeing the dirt pile up and go away). Moonshadows.
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:12 pm
I stumbled across that magazine last fall and liked the purpose of it. For me, I’d want to remember how my baby’s entire body wiggles with joy at the very sight of me, my 2 year old saying “Daffy Taffy”, my 3 year old running, my 5 year old singing, my 7 year old holding my baby, my 9 year old yelling, my 11 year old painting the 2 year old’s toenails, and the 12 year old finding comfort in one of the little ones on a tough day. And I hope I’d remember that sometimes the house was trashed and it was okay.
March 4th, 2010 at 10:11 am
You are so right. There are so many small things to enjoy everyday.
Cute that your little boy tried to twist the bolt on the fire hydrant.
I am going to be better about documenting the small things in my life. Thanks for this post.
March 8th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
What a lovely post! And I am greatly amused that my daughter is also deeply enamoured of the same pair of cheap plastic sunglasses: http://mamarose.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/birthday-dinner/