ilove camera phones

For the past few months, Aaron has been using his camera phone to send me "snapshots" of their day. Each cell phone pic I receive generates a pool of emotions. Some take my breath away and others provoke heavy guilt for not being present for all of these occassions. And that is our challenge of dividing so much of ourselves into pockets of time. It's not the most ideal solution, but I think about the alternative - and realize, for us, right now, it is...Thanks to camera phones, we are able to give each other an almost instantaneous view of what's going on, and spontaneous messages that say, "we're thinking of you."

Like on their adventures around our neighborhood...




Or Aaron bicycling all the way to the lake [about 20 mi RT] with the kids in tow to feed the ducks... or my most surprising one, their trip to Home Depot to pick out light fixtures [see bottom right].




There were also sightings of them at malls, zoos, parks and museums...




And of course, the series of successful and failed attempts with naptime....