Friday, January 13, 2012

Time Out

This evening, Julia was sitting in her booster seat at the table with some toys and Natalie was playing with her. I was up to my elbows in baking soda and dish soap deep-cleaning the stove (it's a wild and crazy life we live here on Friday nights!) and Natalie started asking me to take pictures of them together. I held her off a couple times with the standard "Mommy is busy" line, but she was desperate and wasn't going to take no for an answer. So finally I gave in...cleaned myself up and started snapping a few shots.

So in all that, Natalie taught me a little lesson. Sometimes you just have to hit the pause button in life. Put down what you're doing, because you just may end up with a sweet picture like this: