Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: mom

  • Throwback Thursday – 4 generations

    As I mentioned, I am taking a Photoshop class and this week we learned about restoring old photos. It just so happened that my mom brought me a photo album that belonged to my grandmother that I, for some reason, had stored in my things at her house in Spokane. Many of the photos neither…

  • A joyful occasion: finding love again after loss.

    If you are a reader of this blog you will know that my family  lost my stepfather to cancer around 4 years ago. At first the grief was almost unbearable but as the years go by healing happens. Grief is still there but it becomes more of a dull ache. Every once in awhile the…

  • Wayback Wednesday

    Wayback Wednesday

    I was scrolling through my Flickr stream and noticed these two photos side by side. It is the first time I really compared photos of myself and my mom at the same age. I thought I would throw together a diptych of them for today’s Wayback Wednesday post. We are both around 5 years old…

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise

    When I saw this week’s photo challenge on the Daily Post, this image instantly popped into my head. It was taken on Christmas Eve 2006. I knitted that scarf for my mom and this is the moment she opened her present. I LOVE this picture. The looks on my mom’s and step-dad’s faces, this is…

  • Busy day

    My mom is visiting this weekend and I am having a great time! We fit a week’s amount of outings into today. Starting with mass. I can’t freaking believe I went to Mass. We also tried food cart food, visited the Portland Art Museum, Trillium Lake (pictured above), and Timberline Lodge. I am exhausted. Good…