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we’re on our way to a wee photo shoot (with me ra koh ) for eliza; another fun adventure to add to our book. also, it’s snowing outside. in october. whee!

this is what i want to remember about today: we are together. we are laughing, listening to music, dancing around. we just got back from emma’s ballet class, where she was doing partner work and getting much better at her turn-out. bear is ironing a dress for emma while i feed the baby and em plays an exuberant game of Disney Bingo (“N-34, Simba is on a purple square!”). i want to remember that the snow is falling in giant white flakes outside our window, and it’s still early enough in the season that the weather is joyful, not a nuisance. i want to remember how excited emma is about halloween (another party this afternoon, after a fun fest at school yesterday), and how adorable eliza is in her Yoda hat. i want to remember striped scarves and hoodies, colorful rain boots kept just inside the door. i want to remember switching back and forth with bear over who gets to ‘wear’ the baby bjorn, because we both like holding her so close.

i want to remember how blessed and lucky we are, on such simple days, to have each other, to be right where we are.

xoxo

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