52 Weeks of 2013 - Week 20

There are those RARE moments in life when your little girls say "Mommy! Take a picture of us" and you don't argue, you grab your camera quickly and don't worry about what the background looks like, or whether outfits match perfectly, or are cute enough. Then they spontaneously hug each other without you  asking them to. They smile....then they really surprise you and even do a sweet kiss and you are just doing as you were told and documenting that they really do love each other. Which, of course you knew.

Sometimes, though, with all the bickering and yelling and pinching, you wonder if they will both survive, or if you will even be able to handle the teenage years if it's already like this now. So you'll take these moments and treasure them and of course record them. They will be proof. (One day you may need to shove a photo like this in their faces and remind them how they really are best friends because, maybe, for brief moments they might forget.)

I realize, this could just be how it is with my kids and yours may be just perfect at all times, loving and sweet and kind to each other. But, I seriously doubt it.

Love these unscripted moments. Sigh.

52 Weeks of 2013 - Week 10

They are true sisters, the best of friends, the worst of enemies. They play together and giggle together and plan and primp together. They still hold hands! I love watching their relationship blossom and I try hard to remember if it was like that for my sister and I. My memory fails me but I am sure it must have been.

They approach life so differently and have strengths and weaknesses uniquely their own and I love them all the more for it. I know they will always be there for each other, through thick and thin. They are and will be, a force to be reckoned with.

Love these two little mischief makers!