Have you ever had a moment where you knew that a picture wasn't going to do justice to capture what was going on? Maybe you didn't have your camera or phone around you to snap a picture or your hands were full, but mostly, you just wanted to put the moment into your heart and just treasure it.
I am a big huge fan of Instagram and love uploading pictures and seeing what others around me or those that inspire me are doing and capturing. Sometimes I wonder if those that follow me on Instagram think, "seriously? Another picture of her boys??" But to be honest, I usually just upload those pictures for me to scroll back later and remember what we did during the longest winter ever and be glad that the mountains of snow have now disappeared.
This afternoon though, I didn't take a picture.
I needed to get a few things at the grocery store that is around the corner and afterwards, I decided we would head down to the small park by the water and I would let the boys play.
It was pretty windy and chilly, so after they did some swinging and went on the slides, we headed down the path to the pond. Cameron held on to one of my hands and Gavin held on the other. We looked at the flowers growing along the path and saw the swan and geese diving for fish. At a fork in the road, Gavin chose the older pathway and we made our way over the huge tree roots that are coming through the pavement on the path. The boys found rocks and Cameron started to "clean up" the path by throwing the rocks off the pavement.
As we were walking though, I was filled with the realization that there was no where else on earth - nothing else that I wanted to be doing at that moment then being with my little boys. That doesn't happen very often, if I'm honest. I usually have something else that is on my mind that needs to be done (cough, cough *all the laundry in the world*), but right then? I was treasuring the time spent with the two little ones that God has placed in my care.
We made it to the pond (with me carrying Cameron by the end) and discovered turtles sunbathing on a raft and jumped around all the piles of poo left by who knows what - Gavin thought it was pretty gross and funny. We found a bunny eating grass and walked over the bridges.
I know tomorrow, I will again be overwhelmed by all the little tasks that come about during my day, but I want to remember this afternoon. And I pray that I will not take for granted those moments where taking a picture might ruin the memory.
(a blog post isn't a blog post without pictures - so these were some of the boys that my sister, Sara, took around Easter (click her name to see more awesome pictures that she has taken!!))
