This past April I took a photo every day of some small moment for the 30 tiny moments group on Flickr. I thought this month would be a good one to do that again. Here we go.

Day 1: Breakfast on Snail Mountain with friends. We had coffee (for the adults), milk (for the kids), and doughnuts on Snail Mountain this morning, since Brenda and Baby Bug were visiting and that is rapidly becoming our tradition.

On another note, I have so many photos languishing unedited and unposted on my hard drive right now, it’s not even funny. In addition to the photos I’ve been taking, Annalie has been a shutterbug lately, and has gotten some really funny and great shots. I’m debating opening a free Flickr account for Annalie’s photos and starting a photo blog for her on this site, like Annalie’s friend Lily has on her mom’s blog.

I have so many things I want to write about, like meeting Bonnie and her kids, the not-so-minor plumbing disaster at our old house in Maryland that is going to involve insurance companies and replacing a toilet and drywall and possibly some carpet, and how happy I am to be painting pottery again and how tickled I am to be getting custom orders. But life is happening and we’re days past some of those things and I don’t know if I’ll ever write about them.

Like our trip to the desert to visit Deborah and her kids! Remember how they came here to visit us, and we went to Sea World? Well, we went back to their house with them to visit for a few days, since our husbands were both out of town. We had a great time hanging out with them, and I took a bunch of photos and posted them in Flickr (you can see the ones from here and there in the photoset Maryland friends in California!), fully intending to write more about our visit. But somehow I just never got around to it and now that was weeks ago.

Maybe doing 30 tiny moments this month will help me keep up.

I just got an email from my mom with a photo attached. I had to share them both.

Hi Bethany,
I just saw your post & it reminded me of a photo of you. This photo was dated Aug (!) 1978 and I wrote on the back that you did it all by yourself. You were 3 1/2.
Funny, huh? Did you remember this photo?
Love,
Mom

“I kinda liiiiike…I kinda like penguins the best.”
07:07 PM January 14, 2008 from web

Awake, and telling the cat, “Wow, Katy, that’s some LOUD purring you’ve got right there!”
06:22 PM January 16, 2008 from web

“Mommy, is he a bad guy? Look at his eyebrows!”
02:06 PM January 23, 2008 from web

refereeing a fight between my horsey and my lemur…”my lemur is sad because he wanted to be a horse too, but they can kiss and make up.”
05:43 PM January 31, 2008 from web

“Peter piper picked a speck of sparkled vine!”
11:40 AM February 02, 2008 from web

listening to my mom blowing her nose, saying grouchily, “I’m ALLERGIC to BOOGERS!”
09:45 AM February 13, 2008 from web

blowing up my pink inflatable fish-shaped ring to take to the pool, saying, “I’m PRETTY sure this is a stingray…”
08:57 AM April 05, 2008 from web

“I’m strong as a rainbow!”
11:48 AM April 23, 2008 from web

“Oh, the french horn SURPRISED me!”
04:09 PM April 26, 2008 from web

“Hey, CHIP and DIP! They rhyme!”
10:01 PM August 05, 2008 from web