That picture? If I could frame their childhood, that’s what the print would look like.
We’re all dressed up in clothes that we went shopping for the day before. Even though they were begging me to leave by the end of the 3 hour shopping trip, I loved when Emma would lace her fingers through mine walking through the mall. Or, how Lexi straight up told me my dress was ugly.
I love that even though I didn’t push for it, both of them settled on that same green dress immediately. While I didn’t get patent leather shoes and Easter hats like the little girls in the purple dress in the mall, I still got a little bit of my matching baby girls.
I love Lexi’s long hair and her bare feet because that’s just Lexi, kicking off shoes wherever they land and swinging that hair she says we’re never allowed to cut.
I love that Lexi’s not wearing her jacket like Emma’s because we can’t find it. It’s missing somewhere under a pile of who knows what in our house. Emma’s was rescued late last evening from a friend’s house where she left it Wednesday night.
Emma’s wearing sandals she didn’t wear to church because the sole was coming out of her dress shoes—the same ones from last year. We had to hot glue the soles down 10 minutes before church because they kept coming up and irritating her. I told her she could throw them away if she would just get through Easter with them.
I can see Emma’s new earrings she bought through her hair. She wanted “dangly ones” like a big girl and used her own money to pay for them. Her left ear is getting infected because she says she has a bad habit of twirling it.
I love that I’m wearing a dress that I bought because I love it. I didn’t have to call anyone to see what they thought and I ignored Lexi when she didn’t like it. It’s hard for a people pleaser when you have to look yourself in the mirror in the dressing room and just answer, “What do you think of it?”
I love so much that we’re laughing because Lexi kept running her little fingers up the back of my knee just to aggravate me and make me laugh while Mom was taking a picture. Just. like. her daddy.
Her daddy, might I say, who was off working. I sure do miss him in this picture but that’s the sacrifice we make. The three of us girls find ourselves alone a lot on weekends. I love our girl time and this picture reminds me of those moments.
I want so much for my girls to remember me like this—forgetting hot-glued shoes and lost jackets—and just laughing for no other reason than they wanted me to.
I think your dress looks very pretty….kids are so funny! Happy Easter.
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Thank you! Lexi can have an interesting opinion on clothes so I took it with a grain of salt 🙂
My husband works a lot of nights and weekends, too, but I like your attitude: I need to view it as a sacrifice, not a personal affront!
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I actually happen to like when my husband works nights. I wouldn’t want it all the time, but he does it every other month and it works for us. I like to be able to watch what I want, go to bed when I want, etc. I consider it “me time” and when the girls are with me, it’s our girl time. We do things like shop for 3 hours when he wouldn’t want to. 🙂
This is one of my favorites of anything you’ve ever written.
I can’t even imagine how lucky your girls are to have memories like this. What a perfect picture to capture beautiful bonds between two little stars and their fabulous mama.
Also, your dress is too pretty!
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Thank you, Sarah, for all of your kind words.
Amy, this is BEAUTIFUL.
(ps–your mobile site keeps coming up for me.)
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Thanks, Amanda!
Other people have said in the past the mobile site will render on computers as well, but when I check it it’s fine so I don’t really know what to do to fix it. Do you know what mobile plugin you use? Maybe I need to switch.
Amy, I love this picture! As I read your heart in the words, I heard my heart and saw my life a few years ago. I loved those special times when my girls were little and wearing matching dresses to church on Easter Sunday. I had a most glorious day Sunday afternoon with my girls as we tried a Pinterest project of jello eggs. It was so much fun laughing with my ” grown-up” girls. How I miss those times that you are currently in… My glorious day was interrupted and spoiled by a need to be grown up….
Thank you! I hope to have a friendship like that with my girls one day. Some days it feels like forever away but I know it’s just around the corner and I’m trying my best to savor these.
I like your dress! I love the girls’ dresses too 🙂 Such a fun picture!
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Thank you!
I absolutely LOVE this photo of you and the Girls! What a beautifully spontaneous moment your Mom captured for you. This is exactly the kind of photo you want to have in their memory books: the kind where a few years from now you’ll forget exactly what you were laughing at but will want to keep coming back to because they never fail to make you smile.
Just beautiful!
PS – I love your dress!
Thank you, Carolyn! That’s the part I hate…forgetting what we laughed at. I wish I would stop and write more down.
Amy i love this picture! I want to get it developed and put in a frame! I’m glad I kept snapping! It does capture the essence of you guys when you are having fun! And it felt like Scott was there even though he wasn’t because his essence was coming out in those 2 precious girls! No one loves to pick more than Scott and he makes all three of you giggle just like that! Btw, I don’t know if I even told you that I loved your dress. I don’t know what that silly Lexi was thinking!
Yes, I agree, it WAS like Scott was there. I’m glad you liked my dress! After Lexi said that and then no one commented at the house, I thought it was just me that liked it!
I hope this comes out ok as a print. It’s kind of fuzzy. There are one or two more we can look at that might still be good.