Friday, October 16, 2009

Now.

And Then.

We visit an orchard and pick apples every fall. Norah always eats one right off the tree.

Now and then I like to compare my pictures, to see how quickly my kids have grown. This serves to remind me how quickly time flies, how what seem like insignificant minutes add up to hours, days, years.

For what is your life? It is a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. James 4:14

2 comments:

Amy Wilson said...

The highest form of a compliment is if someone copies you, right? Hope you don't mind, but I really like the now & then idea. Going to use it with Belle....

Veronica Boulden said...

Not at all, copy away! I have one friend who puts her daughter in her robe and her son in her husband's dress shirt and takes a photo to show how they grow into the clothes each year. That's another idea. We've always lived in the same place, basically, so I get pictures of the girls in the same places or doing the same things all the time, so that is how the idea came to me. But, I think if we have a boy I'll do the dress shirt thing for sure. :)

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