photos - Musings Out Loud

Musings Out Loud

Sign in Subscribe

photos

A collection of 6 posts

Behind the Photographs

Every morning, I look at my “On This Day” from Facebook, usually right up there with reading the news and checking the weather. I have thirteen years’ worth of history to scroll through. As I look at photos, I usually try to remember the situation, event, feelings, or why I

Forever Children

This week, Autumn turned three months old. Based on my due dates, Nelle would be 22 months and Iris would be sixteen-and-a-half months. But Autumn is older than they will ever be. Once I passed 16 weeks, 1 day of pregnancy, and 21 weeks, 1 day of pregnancy, Autumn will

A Love Scene

There are a lot of photos of me pregnant with Nelle. We took a family trip to Hawaii when I was around 11 weeks. I announced the gender to my parents, siblings, and uncles on that trip. I was nauseous every day. At eleven weeks, I can see my shape

Image Embedded in Memory

It was August 24, 2015, at what should have been the completely routine mid-pregnancy ultrasound. Ger almost didn’t attend the appointment since we had done this before with two previous kids, but I insisted that “this is the big one!” And he should be there. I saw the image

Outside of the Photograph

Outside of the Photograph

Every year around this time, I trip across this photo, thanks to a variety of social media reminding me what I was doing “on this day.” In Chicago, standing in front of the theater, about to see the musical Wicked for the first time. 8 years ago today. We were