the dream catcher

because she's fabulous!

i love this photo of my mom...it's from her days working for the fbi.
she would sometimes be asked to model the stolen goods recovered from some bust!
how cool is that!

she is such a dish in this shot, and looks like she is having so much fun working the camera.
it makes me wish that i knew her back then...in that previous "to us" lifetime.

what if you could go back in time to hang out with your parents for just one day?
to really know who they were before they had responsibilities and loads of kids and created these amazing adult lives - i think my parents would have been a blast to hang out with. Heck they are so much fun now...

When i look at their old photos it really makes me feel lucky.
We are truly a blessed bunch of goofballs!
i mean look how fabulous my mom is...and by the way, still is today!

so mom, happy birthday!
you're the best, i love you and am so glad you were born!
here's to celebrating you today.
xo
your one and only
linda

news years past

the A frame.
remembering fondly days of celebrating new years eve up at our old cottage.
constant hot cocoa on the stove.
snowmobile rotations with family, friends and new arrivals.
wet clothes in "who cares" piles in front of the fireplace to dry.
bean bags as the seating of choice.
scrabble games, card games, board games, playing was the idea.
no seperation of rooms just a big old loft with beds and pillows and sleeping bags for everyone.
i don't remember feeling less in those days.
i don't remember worrying about a resolution.
i don't remember watching tv for a count down.
i don't remember kids not being with adults.
i don't remember ever thinking there wasn't enough to share.
i loved that we wanted to all be together.
all night.
wet, red cheeked, runny noses, hat head hair, tired, dirty, laughing,
all scrunched in around the fireplace.
it was perfect.
and in recalling those news years past, i do remember feeling that time stopped and the stroke of midnight.
at least long enough to pan the room. long enough to yell with gusto and noise and exhaultation...happy new year!!!

while there wasn't the gusto, the former scene felt the same for me this new years eve...and i secretly sent a wish that everyone experience a little sense of the same for themselves this year!

collectively, 2008, we decided is going to be the year of "why not!?...with the added footnote of "just try something new!"

and so we did...
happy new
year.
linda