This year we are homeschooling Braedon, 10, and Lily, 3. (Well, maybe more like roadschooling.) We are in week 1. So far my favorite part is snuggling them, just awake and in their pjs, while we watch the other children march off to school so early in the morning.
I have no idea what took me so long to homeschool, or what I was afraid of. All I know is, my heart has never been so full.
I have been teaching the world's most incredible group of soul-shaking students this summer. These women are beyond talented and brave and being their teacher is completely knocking my socks off. I always do the homework along side of them, and this one was on perspective.
Here's what I love about these images: they are real.
Her face is stained and dirty from a day of eating blueberries and making mud pies. Her handmade crown and secondhand thrift store dress are crooked and sideways and wrinkled. There was no cleaning of the house or moving things around.
As I was folding laundry, I looked over at her, coloring in the middle of the kitchen floor with her baby blanket by her side, and that was that.
Struggling with her tangled curls. Holding up her most favorite treat that she calls "white coke."
These moments are organic, and human and completely imperfect. And that is why I adore them so.
Real life is the most gorgeous thing I have ever seen. Ever.
A simple little everyday moment that made my heart smile and reminded me that magic is completely and totally really real.
Captured with instagram. (mgardellaphotography)
I love Polaroids. So does my Lily!
She now has her own and we are collecting all of her pictures in a super fun scrapbook.
I love seeing the way she sees the world.
