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I found my underwater camera!
I bet you didn’t even know it was lost. It wasn’t really lost. I placed it somewhere really obscure and then forgot about it because the battery finally died, like years ago, and I never got around to buying a new one. So guess what?!! I ordered a new battery online and bam! My old camera works again! Just in time for summer!
It’s so old school not be able to beam photos right to the internet the second you take them. But I do not have a waterproof phone (yet) so this is the next best thing. I do love this camera even though it takes me a day or two to download the photos and share them here. It’s kinda fun to have zillions to pick from when I finally do go through them. There’s a lot of squishy odd pictures. I love the way the waterline dissects and reflects.
I have a lot of pictures like this where I fail to get my whole head under water because I refuse to blow the the air out of my mouth and lungs. It’s kind of a long story but I had so many ear infections as a child and so many doctor’s orders to stay out of the water that I never really learned to swim under water. So still to this day I am adverse to it. I can swim on the surface no problem though.
On days like these long hot summer days, the water has been amaaaaaaazing! It’s been like swimming in jello, the water is so warm.
I’m cooking up another water-craft so I’m thinking this waterproof camera is going to come in handy! Stay tuned!
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Happy December!
The holidays are half over! I love and hate this time of year. It feels like September was yesterday but if you blink too long, it will be February already and time to start thinking about doing taxes. Blah! But I do love the festivities and coziness of winter. I just wish I could slow time down a little. Summer lasted forever, why can’t winter?
Payam and I hosted thanksgiving together for the first time. It was a really huge, big deal because my parents got to meet his (mom and uncle, his dad passed away a long time ago) for the first time. I knew they would like each other, they’re roughly the same age, same interests etc.. but they come from vastly different religious and cultural backgrounds.
I was actually way more nervous about cooking than I was about everyone getting along and to compensate I made way too much food. I really wish I had bought about three extra card tables and invited all the neighbors over too (or at least Lubna’s family) but that would have put me over the edge probably. Next year, if we do this again, I’m inviting twice as many people.
Everything went well until the virus that Bug had been fighting all week decided to take up residence in her throat and make breathing difficult for her. She’s never had any problems with breathing before so I was a little at a loss of what to do. She made it through the night and we stood in line at her doctor’s office first thing in the morning. Along with everyone else with sick kids after thanksgiving. I’m so thankful for the doctors and nurses who work on holidays. They really are a selfless bunch.
After Bug was loaded up with an antibiotic and some breathing treatments she got better quick. So we spent the rest of the week really enjoying not having to go to school.
The girls and I worked on an advent calendar game that I made for Alphamom. It’s actually a pretty fun one so you should click over and print your own copy. We made little polymer clay figurines of snowmen and gnomes. Bug made a tree with blue bark and pink leaves that looks like some kind of raspberry bush. It was good to be crafting together.As Bug gets older it’s been more challenging to get her to craft with me. She still enjoys it but she doesn’t like being told what to do or how to pose for the camera. I can’t say I blame her. But because of her unwillingness I’m always looking for other kids to craft with me and then that makes her sad too because I’m giving all my attention to someone else. But them’s the breaks, right? Parenting is never easy and learning how to not be an only child is always going to be challenging. We’ve had some growing pains lately but I hope she looks back on these changes as good changes in the long run. I think she will.
In other news, I’m thinking of hosting a crafting/painting party. If anyone local is interested, email me and maybe we can set up a date!
AND!!! I finished my SAJ 2016 Calendar. I just need to get toner for the printer so I can print a copy and post some photos. Come back tomorrow (or the next day) for a calendar download! :)
