cheetos little one?

i have to commend my daughter for her willingness to share her beloved cheetos even with the littlest of friends!

a favorite site

one of the things i miss the most living where we do in california, is the ability to hang clothes out on the line to dry - it's something i can still visualize my grandma doing in her backyard and my mother still doing it to this day....and if you pass a house that has laundry on the line, curiousity always gets the best of you as you study the items and colors of the clothing items that they have lined up on their clothesline. i have this one framed in my laundry room at home, my shorts and the twins' dresses which all just happened to be color coordinated that day - really, i didn't do that on purpose... but seeing that picture in the laundry room at home, allows me, for a minute, to smell that freshly dried sun -baked piece of clothing once its completed it's job on the line for the day.

summer day

i love watching my friends' children grow and knowing that each time i see them, there will be more features, both in appearance and personality, that i love about the friend, that are increasingly apparent in the children themselves - it's like you'd pick these little people to be your child's friend, just knowing that they are going to be just as special and likeable as their parent. that is the case with these three who belong to my best friend since junior high. i think i'd have a little photo assistant in her middle child, if we lived closer to one another - he is intrigued with the camera and really takes some priceless pictures.