Our family is in the midst of little league soccer season. My youngest son is playing and his enthusiasm is contagious. He is pretty good at the sport, but what makes it so great is that he loves it! He counts the days until the next game or practice. He loves his coach and teammates. He has moved up an age level this year and the players are working more like team, passing to each other and watching out for each other during play. During the last game, my son scored two goals, they were the only goals of the game. In today's game the team scored eight goals. My son came up afterwards to me and said, "I didn't score today, but I blocked". What a powerful truth those words can hold. In life, sometimes we score, sometimes we block. Sometimes we do great things, we excel, we achieve, we meet our goal - we score! There are also times we see the needs of others, sometimes they are sad or hurting, we block their hits. We look out for them so they can score. We...
Those pics are amazing. What memories you captured. He's a little cutie.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful job editing! I'm still trying to find the time to work with my Photoshop Elements, but with four little ones...
ReplyDeleteThis post has motivated me to get back at it. Thanks for the inspiration!
Oh, and by the way, those boys look pretty sweet with their fishing poles. Fun memories are being made. Good job, mama!
"Let's go fishing!" Woo.... I just love the sound of it. We missed the Huckle Finn Day in our town early May. We don't get to go fishing much but I have always relating fishing with the story of "fisher of men". Both take great patience and time.
ReplyDeleteGreat job capturing a fun childhood memory!
ReplyDeleteI am loving the editing you have done!! My boys LOVE to fish as well...although they get to go as often as they would like.
ReplyDeleteAwesome pictures!
ReplyDeleteGreat snaps! And I love the vintage look of your edits. Cool!
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