22/52

"a portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014"

joining Jodi in The 52 Project

SEEING FAMILIAR FACES

so grateful for a visit from our friends and old (as of one week) neighbors

To have them as guests and get to catchup after our first week apart felt like a gift, felt like a circle completed. They had cooked us meals, watched our girls and listened to us all with such care during our last few days in the city. Not to mention their support during the last year. So many sister friends!

AS IF FROM A DREAM

it has been nearly a week and I have just now looked at these images - nearly a week since we left 

I thought for weeks about taking these images before our last night (or what we thought would be our last night, we underestimated how long we need the next day and had to sleep another night), somehow it felt so final to take them. These scenes, the almost playful way the ambient light of the city lay shadows over our walls and ceiling, these shapes were part of my nightlife. Photographing them felt like telling a secret, a bit of a relief.

LOSING TRACK OF TIME

we packed, we loaded the truck for days, we drove and we made it

And really we couldn't be happier, stressed but really relieved. When we were still in Providence we kept saying we just need to get out of here and then anything can happen. Now we are at the anything.

20/52

"a portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014"

a really special moment with our much loved babysitter/friend on our last "date night" in Providence 

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

19/52

"a portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014"

joining in with Jodi

A SIMPLE SATURDAY

FROM THE DRIVER SEAT

most of our stuff in boxes, our house under contract (that was fast!!), 

it is all coming together and feels so right - after 11 years I am so ready to move forward - 

I was once so inspired here, that was a long time ago

a little distraction // MOTHER / mystic mama / interview: Brigid Schulte // swing sets 

Gere is currently making up a song that goes "I don't want to move because I don't want to pack" sounds like it is time to take a break and go play for a while, new line "I do want to move but I don't want to pack" "I don't like packing, poo, I don't like moving, poo"

18/52

"a portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014"

joining in with Jodi

GETTING OUT THE DOOR

Elizabeth Mitchell has been on repeat in the car, seems to be everyones request, 

we all end up singing and humming our favorite bits all day.